W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the March newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on EGovernment and the Web, XBL, RDFa Primer, New HTML Working Group, CURIE, CSS3 Text, GRDDL, Secure Browsing, Future of the Web. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. EGovernment and the Web: Workshop Report
2. XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0: Call for Implementations
3. RDFa Primer: Working Draft
4. W3C Launches New HTML Working Group
5. CURIE: Working Draft for Compact URIs
6. Working Draft: CSS3 Text
7. Last Call: GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web
8. Secure Browsing: Working Draft
9. Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on Future of the Web to US Congress
10. About this newsletter

1. EGovernment and the Web: Workshop Report

2007-03-20: The European W3C Symposium on eGovernment Report has been published. Participants discussed specific government and citizens' needs related to eGovernment services, to identify aspects that put Web interoperability at risk and find how governments can deliver better and more efficient services through computer technologies. Held 1-2 February (press release), in Gijón, Asturias, Spain, the symposium was organized by the W3C Spanish Office and Fundación CTIC, and supported by the Principality of Asturias Government. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/egov-pressrelease

2. XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0: Call for Implementations

2007-03-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. XBL extends the appearance and behavior of elements in Web formats such as HTML. Elements may be mapped to script, event handlers, CSS, and more complex content models. Content can be re-ordered and wrapped so that for instance, complex CSS styles can be applied to simple HTML or XHTML markup. XBL can be used to implement new DOM interfaces and, with other specifications, to implement arbitrary tag sets as widgets. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-xbl-20070316/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

3. RDFa Primer: Working Draft

2007-03-13: The XHTML2 Working Group and the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working Draft of the RDFa Primer 1.0. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. The draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Changes include new syntax for striping and use of the class attribute to declare rdf:type. Read about HTML and the Semantic Web. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20070312/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/

4. W3C Launches New HTML Working Group

2007-03-07: W3C is pleased to invite participation in the new HTML Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers. "It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. At the same time, W3C is chartering the Forms Working Group, the XHTML2 Working Group, and rechartering the Hypertext Coordination Group. Read the press release and visit the HTML Working Group home page, the Forms Working Group home page, and the XHTML2 Working Group home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html

5. CURIE: Working Draft for Compact URIs

2007-03-07: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of CURIE Syntax 1.0. Written for markup language designers, the draft specifies the syntax and usage of CURIEs which are abbreviated or "compact URIs." Read about the HTML Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-curie-20070307/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity

6. Working Draft: CSS3 Text

2007-03-06: The CSS Working Group has released a Working Draft of CSS Text Level 3. Formerly titled the CSS3 Text Effects Module, the draft is part of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3 and addresses white space, line breaks, word boundaries, text wrapping, alignment, justification and spacing. Visit the CSS home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-text-20070306/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

7. Last Call: GRDDL Links Microformats and Semantic Web

2007-03-02: The GRDDL Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of GRDDL. Comments are welcome through 30 March. With important applications such as connecting microformats to the Semantic Web, GRDDL is a mechanism to extract RDF statements from suitable XHTML and XML content using programs such as XSLT transformations. GRDDL allows powerful mash-ups at very low cost. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-grddl-20070302/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

8. Secure Browsing: Working Draft

2007-03-02: The Web Security Context Working Group released the First Public Working Draft of Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases. The draft describes what technologies may be used and how proposals will be evaluated to produce the group's technical work to enable a secure and usable interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web. Read about the Security Activity. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-wsc-usecases-20070302/
http://www.w3.org/Security/

9. Tim Berners-Lee Speaks on Future of the Web to US Congress

2007-03-01: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, testified on the future of the World Wide Web before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Committee on Energy & Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives on 1 March. Chairman Edward Markey invited Berners-Lee as the sole witness for the first in a series on the Digital Future of the United States. The testimony and details of the hearing and archived Webcast (WMP) are available. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Subcommittees/telint.shtml

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