W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the December newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Ubiquitous Web, Mobile Web Best Practices, Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles, Using XKMS with PGP, CSS Selectors, Toward a More Secure Web, XForms 1.1, SMIL 2.1, Web Services Addressing Interoperability Event, SVG Tiny 1.2, Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing, Advisory Committee Meeting, Quality Assurance, SPARQL. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web
2. Mobile Web Best Practices Updated
3. Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles
4. Note: Using XKMS with PGP
5. Last Call: CSS Selectors
6. Call for Participation: Toward a More Secure Web
7. Working Draft: XForms 1.1
8. SMIL 2.1 Is a W3C Recommendation
9. W3C Web Services Addressing Interoperability Event: Vancouver, 17-18 January
10.Last Call: SVG Tiny 1.2
11.W3C to Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing
12.W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
13.W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group
14.Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
15.About this newsletter

1. Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web

2005-12-20: Position papers are due 10 February for the W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web to be held 9-10 March 2006, hosted by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. The "Ubiquitous Web" seeks to fulfill the potential of the Web for distributed applications that adapt to the user's needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Attendees will examine enabling technologies and consider what remains to be done to fulfill this vision. Read possible topics and about W3C Workshops. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/ubiweb-workshop-cfp.html#topics

2. Mobile Web Best Practices Updated

2005-12-20: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices was published as a Working Group Note. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-mobile-bp-20051220/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-mobile-bp-scope-20051220/

3. Last Call: Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles

2005-12-19: The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Last Call Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. Comments are welcome through 27 January. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents contain multiple formats. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-CDR-20051219/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity.html

4. Note: Using XKMS with PGP

2005-12-19: The XML Key Management Service (XKMS) Working Group has published Using XKMS with PGP as a Working Group Note. This informative note recommends packet types for and recommends behavior for ElGamal. It provides sample message exchanges that include PGP artifacts and usage scenarios for XKMS and PGP. Visit the XKMS home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-xkms-pgp-20051219/
http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS/

5. Last Call: CSS Selectors

2005-12-16: The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Selectors. Designed to be usable in performance-critical code, selectors are patterns in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language that match to elements in HTML and XML. This specification describes the selectors in CSS1 and CSS2 and new selectors for CSS3. Comments are welcome through 16 January. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-css3-selectors-20051215/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/

6. Call for Participation: Toward a More Secure Web

2005-12-15: Position papers are due 25 January for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication to be held 15-16 March 2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA. Attendees will identify steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users. Topics include site authentication, safe Web client behavior, communication with users, infrastructures for content providers, and user agent testing. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and more about Technology and Society. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/
http://www.w3.org/TandS/

7. Working Draft: XForms 1.1

2005-12-13: The XForms Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XForms 1.1. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. Designed to refine and strengthen the XML processing platform introduced by XForms 1.0, version 1.1 embraces SOAP, facilitates XForms use in other host languages, and makes authoring easier. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xforms11-20051209/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

8. SMIL 2.1 Is a W3C Recommendation

2005-12-13: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) as a W3C Recommendation. With SMIL (pronounced "smile"), authors create multimedia presentations and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and text. Version 2.1 features include a new Mobile Profile and an Extended Mobile Profile with enhanced timing, layout and animation capabilities. "Today, W3C makes good on the promise of first class multimedia presentations for the mobile Web," said Chris Lilley (W3C). Read the press release and visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

9. W3C Web Services Addressing Interoperability Event: Vancouver, 17-18 January

2005-12-08: The W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group will hold an Interoperability Event on 17-18 January in Vancouver, BC Canada. Participants will test the Web Services Addressing family of W3C specifications. The group invites interested parties who have implemented Web Services Addressing 1.0: Core, SOAP Binding and/or WSDL Binding. For details and to register, please see the announcement. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-ws-addr-core-20050817/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

10. Last Call: SVG Tiny 1.2

2005-12-07: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The draft allows reviewers to verify that their comments have been included. Comments will be accepted through 28 December. The SVG language delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a complete language specification and is implementable on devices large and small, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-SVGMobile12-20051207/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

11. W3C to Internationalize and Secure Voice Browsing

2005-12-06: Following the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), W3C announces new work to extend SSML to Asian and other languages and to add speaker verification. Speaker verification is "the best biometric for securing telephone transactions and communications," said Ken Rehor (Vocalocity) Chairman of the VoiceXML Forum and participant in the W3C Voice Browser Working Group. Read the press release, join W3C and visit the Voice Browser Activity home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-cfp
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/

12. W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

2005-11-29: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on on 29 November - 1 December in Montréal, Québec, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting during May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.(News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities

13. W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group

2005-11-28: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. Visit the QA home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/QA/
http://www.w3.org/QA/

14. Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF

2005-11-28: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20051123/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

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