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Issue 5: May 1998

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS2)

W3C has just released CSS2 as an official W3C Recommendation. CSS2 is compatible with CSS1 with browsers supporting CSS2 able to handle CSS1 style sheets while CSS1 browsers will be able to read CSS2 style sheets discarding parts they cannot recognise. New features include:

The full CCS2 Recommendation is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/R-CSS2.

A copy of the press release will be included with this newsletter. The Working Group that developed CSS2 included industry players such as Adobe, Bitstream, CWI, Electricite de France, HP, IBM, Lotus, Macromedia, Microsoft, NIST, Novell, Silicon Graphics, and SoftQuad as well as experts in web design, typography, internationalisation and document publishing.

Next W3C Advisory Committee in Geneva

The next W3C Advisory Committee meeting will take place at CERN on 24-25 June 1998. The meeting will take the usual format of an overall presentation of each domain with a particularly newsworthy activity highlighted. The meeting is open to one person per W3C Member. Future priorities are discussed. Additionally, the status of all W3C activities is provided. For those thinking of joining W3C this meeting at the birthplace of the Web would be a good inaugural meeting to attend. Remember complete joining instructions are available at: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining.html.

W3C will bill you for payment so you just need to get your signed forms in by the start of June to be able to attend.

WWW7

About 1200 people attended the Conference in Brisbane which was very well organised apart from one factor, the weather. The Tutorial Day had monsoon level rain throughout the day so that the lunch under a canvas awning was an experience not to be repeated. It was not until the third day that the weather relented and the more usual autumn sunny weather returned.

The Opening Session was the most spectacular so far, opening with a darkened stage. A digeridoo started playing and the lights came up to reveal the stage as an aborigine cave with a group of dancers. The Conference was opened by the Governor General of Australia, Sir William Deane. He highlighted the growth of the Internet in Australia (6th in the World for Internet users and 5th for Internet Hosts). As a regular Internet user, he commented on the issues of copyright, harassment, taxation and the net and also concerns about pornography and its commercial presence on the Internet. He stressed the need for the web community to sort out the social issues. The point was made many times at the conference that the great distances in Australia meant that the Web was a major boost to education for outback communities. There are already Outback Cybercafes that have replaced the pub as the social centre of the town!

XML and RDF dominated the discussions with quite a few papers looking at the problems of automatically adding metadata to pages. XML has taken off with a range of products available for automatically creating and viewing XML information.

Tim Berners-Lee's opening Keynote stressed the role of Metadata in the future development of the Web.

Tim was given an honorary doctorate by Southern Cross University in recognition of the way the World Wide Web had aided the ability of regional universities to better meet the needs of their students and the community in general.

Tim Berners-Lee receiving a Doctorate from Southern Cross University

Tim Berners-Lee receiving a Doctorate from Southern Cross University

Other invited speakers were John Patrick, Paul Saffo, Xing Li, Barry Jones of the Australian Labour Party and Frans de Bruine from the European Commission.

The next two Conferences will be:

New Members

Membership continues to rise and has now reached 260 with a regional break down of:

Full Affiliate
Americas 33 120
Europe 33 41
Asia-Oceania 15 18

Recent new members are:

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