W3C INDIA OFFICE

Welcome to the February newsletter from the Indian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on XHTML 1.1 Second Edition, XML Events 2, Distributed Web Applications, 3GSM World Congress, Widgets 1.0 Requirements, Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition, W3C Offices Meet Face to Face, Paged Media, Behavioral Extensions, Web Services Addressing Metadata. A copy of this newsletter is available on the Indian W3C Office site at: http://w3cindia.in/

1. XHTML 1.1 Second Edition: Working Draft
2. XML Events 2: Working Draft
3. Distributed Web Applications: Advance Notice of Workshop
4. Tim Berners-Lee Keynotes 3GSM World Congress
5. Widgets 1.0 Requirements: Working Draft
6. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a Proposed Recommendation
7. W3C Offices Meet Face to Face
8. Paged Media, Behavioral Extensions: CSS3 Working Drafts
9. Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
10. About this newsletter

1. XHTML 1.1 Second Edition: Working Draft

2007-02-16: The HTML Working Group released the second edition of XHTML™ 1.1 - Module-based XHTML as a Working Draft in preparation for Proposed Edited Recommendation. XHTML 1.1 is a reformulation of XHTML 1.0 Strict based on XHTML modules. Not a new version, the second edition incorporates all known corrections and adds a new description in XML schemas. Visit the HTML home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml11-20070216/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

2. XML Events 2: Working Draft

2007-02-16: The HTML Working Group released a Working Draft of XML Events 2: An Events Syntax for XML. To associate behaviors with markup, language designers can incorporate the module in this specification to integrate event listeners and handlers with DOM Level 2 event interfaces. Version 2.0 adds new functionality for conditional handling of events, and adds explicit elements for handlers. It also has an updated XML schema and DTD and incorporates all known errors in the XML Events Recommendation of 2003. Visit the HTML home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xml-events-20070216/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

3. Distributed Web Applications: Advance Notice of Workshop

2007-02-16: W3C plans a Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications on 5-6 June 2007, hosted by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Attendees will discuss application modeling, security and usability for distributed applications running on network devices. A Call for Participation and more information is expected in March. Read about W3C Workshops. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item21

4. Tim Berners-Lee Keynotes 3GSM World Congress

2007-02-12: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, opened the 3GSM World Congress on Monday 12 February in Barcelona, Spain with a keynote address at the Mobile Innovation Forum. Berners-Lee spoke on the role of innovation and openness in the Web's success, and how the W3C Mobile Web Initiative brings mobile telephony into convergence with the Web and aids in bridging the digital divide. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0222-3gsm-tbl/text.html
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

5. Widgets 1.0 Requirements: Working Draft

2007-02-09: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Widgets 1.0 Requirements. These design goals are the requirements for device-independent standards for scripting, digitally signing, securing, packaging and deploying client-side Web applications (widgets). Also known as gadgets or modules, widgets are small programs like clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters that display and update remote data and run on the Web browser environment. Read about Rich Web Clients. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-widgets-reqs-20070209/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

6. Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Is a Proposed Recommendation

2007-02-06: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition (SISR) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. SISR tags are used to extract meaning from speech recognition. SISR defines the syntax and semantics of tag content in the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification (SRGS) for output as serialized XML or ECMAScript variables. Comments are welcome through 5 March. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-semantic-interpretation-20070205/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/

7. W3C Offices Meet Face to Face

2007-02-06: W3C's Offices held their annual meeting on 5-6 February in Sophia Antipolis, France. Representatives of W3C's sixteen world Offices met at INRIA to discuss W3C Membership issues, Office events and new staff, outreach, and plans for the future. W3C Offices work with their regional Web communities to promote W3C technologies in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. Visit the Offices home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.inria.fr/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

8. Paged Media, Behavioral Extensions: CSS3 Working Drafts

2007-02-06: The CSS Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts for Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). Generated Content for Paged Media describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers and footers often used in printed publications. Behavioral Extensions to CSS allow bindings like XBL to be linked from CSS style sheets, so bindings can be used with user and alternate style sheets and media selection. Visit the CSS home page. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-gcpm-20070205/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-becss-20070205/

9. Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata

2007-02-02: Based on feedback received during Candidate Recommendation, the Web Services Addressing Working Group has released Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 23 February. The proposed WSDL extension element and WSDL SOAP module have been removed, and Web Services Policy assertions have been introduced into the specification. The document was formerly titled "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding." Read about Web services. (News Archive)

URIs:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070202/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

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