W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the October newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on Mobile Web Initiative Event, W3C Process Document, Mobile Web Best Practices, Time Zones, XFrames, W3C Office Open in Australia, XForms 1.0 Second Edition, COPRAS. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Mobile Web Initiative Event in London on 15 November
2. W3C Process Document Published
3. Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices
4. Working Group Note: Time Zones
5. Working Draft: XFrames
6. W3C Office Opens in Australia
7. XForms 1.0 Second Edition: Proposed Edited Recommendation
8. COPRAS: Standardization Guidelines for Research
9.About this newsletter

1. Mobile Web Initiative Event in London on 15 November

2005-10-21: Registration is open for the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) event on Tuesday, 15 November at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in central London, UK. MWI sponsors will attend. The event is free and open to the public. Read about the Mobile Web Initiative, a concerted effort to make the Web interoperable and usable for users of mobile devices. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/FutureEvents/mobileregister.html
http://www.w3.org/2005/11/mwi-ukevent.html

2. W3C Process Document Published

2005-10-19: The 14 October 2005 W3C Process Document is operative. Reviewed by the W3C Membership and staff and produced by the Advisory Board, the Process Document describes the structure and operations of W3C. A summary of changes from the previous version is available. Read more About W3C. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ProcessChanges#changes-20051014

3. Working Draft: Mobile Web Best Practices

2005-10-17: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public 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. Writing for a wide audience, the group invites feedback from developers and network operators as well as Web professionals who are not technology specialists. 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-20051017/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

4. Working Group Note: Time Zones

2005-10-13: Based on discussions with the XQuery and XSL Working Groups, the Internationalization Core Working Group has released Working with Time Zones as a Working Group Note. The document discusses problems encountered when working with the date, time, and dateTime values from XML Schema when time zone offsets are included or omitted. It offers guidelines for working with field-based dates and times, for working with date and time values that require a time zone, and for comparing times. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-timezone-20051013/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/

5. Working Draft: XFrames

2005-10-12: The HTML Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XFrames. Replacing HTML frames, XFrames is an XML application for composing documents together in a view. Solving usability, search and security problems associated with HTML frames, XFrames are designed for content negotiation and to allow bookmarking. Comments are welcome. Read more on the HTML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xframes-20051012/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

6. W3C Office Opens in Australia

2005-10-06: W3C is pleased to announce the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra hosts the W3C Australian Office effective 10 October. Ross Ackland is Office Manager. "W3C considers Australia a key to global adoption of Web technologies, and we welcome CSIRO as an Office host," said Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices. W3C wishes to thank DTSC in Brisbane and staff members Liz Armstrong and Hoylen Sue for hosting the previous Australian Office. Read about W3C Offices. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
http://www.ict.csiro.au/

7. XForms 1.0 Second Edition: Proposed Edited Recommendation

2005-10-06: The XForms Working Group has released XForms 1.0 (Second Edition) as a Proposed Edited Recommendation. The document brings the XForms 1.0 Recommendation up to date with first edition errata, and aligns the specification with implementations. Comments are welcome through 3 November. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence and reduce the need for scripting. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PER-xforms-20051006/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

8. COPRAS: Standardization Guidelines for Research

2005-10-05: COPRAS has published generic guidelines to help researchers integrate standardization into new and existing projects. Participants W3C, The Open Group, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI cooperate to help European research projects find their way through standardization and to increase standards awareness. COPRAS is funded under the European Union's Information Society Technologies (IST) program. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2004/copras/docu/D15.html
http://www.cordis.lu/ist

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