W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the August newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. Web Forms 2.0, Web Applications Packaging, Mobile Web in Developing Countries, New Editions of Core XML Standards Published, Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles and SVG Tiny 1.2. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. Web Forms 2.0: Working Draft
2. Web Applications Packaging: Working Draft
3. Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Advance Notice of Workshop
4. New Editions of Core XML Standards Published
5. Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles: Working Drafts
6. SVG Tiny 1.2 Is a Candidate Recommendation
7. Speech Experts Focus on Synthesis in More Languages
8. Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts
9. About this newsletter

1. Web Forms 2.0: Working Draft

2006-08-21: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Forms 2.0. Extending HTML 4, XHTML 1.1 and the DOM, Web Forms 2.0 features include new strongly-typed input fields, attributes, declarative repeating of form sections, DOM interfaces, DOM events, and XML submission and initialization of forms. Web Forms 2.0 leverages the knowledge authors have gained with their experience with HTML. Read about Rich Web Clients. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-web-forms-2-20060821/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

2. Web Applications Packaging: Working Draft

2006-08-21: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Applications Packaging Format Requirements. The document specifies design goals and requirements for packaging small client-side Web applications known as "widgets", "gadgets" or "modules," used to display and update remote data. Applications such as clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters are packaged to allow a single download and installation on a client machine. Read about Rich Web Clients. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WAPF-REQ-20060821/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

3. Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Advance Notice of Workshop

2006-08-21: W3C plans a Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries on 4-5 December in New Delhi, India, hosted by C-DAC, the site of the W3C India Office. Participants will discuss mobile Web access within developing countries, in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential uses. A Call for Participation for this Workshop is expected in September. Scholarships to cover travel costs will be available. Read about W3C Workshops and the Mobile Web Initiative. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

4. New Editions of Core XML Standards Published

2006-08-16: The World Wide Web Consortium today published new editions of four core XML standards: the fourth edition of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 and second editions of Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1, Namespaces in XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML 1.1. These new editions incorporate corrections to all known errata. Read the press release and visit the XML home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/

5. Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles: Working Drafts

2006-08-11: Addressing Last Call comments, the Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four updated Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. 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 more about Rich Web Clients. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-CDR-20060811/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WICD-20060811/

6. SVG Tiny 1.2 Is a Candidate Recommendation

2006-08-10: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 to Candidate Recommendation. With native support shipping in Opera and Firefox browsers on desktops, the SVG language describes interactive vector graphics, text, images, animation and graphical applications in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is designed for Web access by devices of all sizes from handhelds to desktops, automobile media centers and entertainment consoles. Two implementations of SVG Tiny 1.2 are already available, with more on the way. The Requirements document is also updated. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the SVG home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-SVGMobile12-20060810/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-SVGTiny12Reqs-20060810/

7. Speech Experts Focus on Synthesis in More Languages

2006-08-03: Participants in the second Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) have published their minutes and report. Speech and linguistics experts met on 30-31 May in Heraklion, Crete to study improvements to SSML for Asian, Middle Eastern and Eastern European languages such as Arabic, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian and Slovenian. W3C thanks FORTH for hosting. Read the press release, join W3C and visit the voice home page. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/SSML/minutes

8. Web Services Policy 1.5: Working Drafts

2006-08-01: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web Services Policy 1.5. The Policy Framework defines a model for expressing the nature of Web services in order to convey conditions for their interaction. Attachment defines how to associate policies, for example within WSDL or UDDI, with subjects to which they apply. Read about Web services. (News archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-20060731/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ws-policy-attach-20060731/

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