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The W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration in Asia (W3C10 Asia) will be held 28 November in Tokyo, Japan. The day-long symposium with luminaries from Japan and Asia will review the past decade of the Web, show how industry works with Web standards, and how Asian dynamics may drive the Web's next decade of Web development. The event is open to the public. Read the media advisory.
2006-11-15: Today the World Web Consortium released XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition as a Recommendation. Produced as a convenience to readers, the second edition is intended to correct all known errata in the 2004 XInclude 1.0 Recommendation. XInclude is a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (information sets) using existing XML constructs — elements, attributes and URI references. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)
2006-11-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) to Candidate Recommendation. The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 16 February 2007. W3C encourages developers to implement the specification and share their experience with the Synchronized Multimedia Working Group. (News archive)
2006-11-16: The Hypertext Coordination Group has released Rich Web Application Backplane as a Coordination Group Note describing a common infrastructure for declarative and imperative Web programming languages. The common building blocks for Web applications such as submission, data models, model-view binding and behavior, and Web components may thus be used for multiple markup formats. Read about the Hypertext Coordination Group. (News archive)
2006-11-16: Today, W3C holds a Mobile Web Seminar in Paris, France,
about the use of the Web while on the move: the mobile Web. The
speakers on 16 November include representatives of Mobile Web
Initiative sponsors such as Bango, France Telecom, Jataayu Software,
MobileAware, mTLD, Opera Software, and Vodafone, as well as W3C-MWI
representatives. Read about the Mobile Web
Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content
providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators.
(News
archive)
2006-11-15: The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Clipboard Operations for the Web 1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop. Developers will be able to use this API to enable and enhance common clipboard functions in their Web applications. This first draft is based on data transfer documentation for Internet Explorer on Windows. The group invites comments from Web content and browser developers. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)
2006-11-13: The P3P Specification Working Group has published The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P1.1) Specification as a W3C Working Group Note. P3P enables Web sites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. This release incorporates resolutions to Last Call review comments. Although W3C does not have plans at this time to advance P3P 1.1 to Recommendation, we anticipate more work in the area of Web privacy and invite the P3P community to continue discussions about P3P in the forums listed on the the P3P home page. (News archive)
2006-11-13: The HTML Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XHTML Role Attribute Module. The XHTML Role Attribute defined in this specification allows the author to annotate XML Languages with machine-extractable semantic information about the purpose of an element. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing, and complex data description. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)
2006-11-13: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of W3C mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0. This document defines the tests that provide the basis for making a claim to be W3C mobileOK Basic compliant and are based upon W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices. Read about Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. (News archive)
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