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Issue 24: December 1999

W3C and the WAP Forum

Well the title may sound like the title of a B Movie but the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is the de-facto global standard for providing Internet communications and advanced telephony services on digital mobile phones, pagers, personal digital assistants etc. The WAP Forum is an industry association with over 150 full members including palm top suppliers, mobile phone companies, telecomm suppliers through to major IT companies. Members represent about 95% of the world market with 100 million subscribers. W3C and the WAP Forum have established a formal liaison relationship with the aim of incorporating appropriate parts of the WAP protocol in XHTML. Another involvement is with Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): a user side framework for content negotiation where the WAP Forum is acting as reviewer.

MathML 2.0

The first Public Working Draft of MathML 2.0 has just been released. This build on MathML 1.0 and moves forward in terms of the overall goals of the group to produce a system able to:

Encode mathematical material suitable for teaching and scientific communication at all levels
Encode both mathematical notation and meaning.
Aid format conversion, both presentational and semantic. Output formats should include:
- graphical displays
- speech synthesizers
- computer algebra systems
- print media, including braille
Support efficient browsing for lengthy expressions.
Be well suited to template and other mathematics editing techniques.
Be human legible, and simple for software to generate and process.

The New New Thing

Just when we thought that all the history books about the Web had arrived, Michael Lewis's book, The New New Thing arrived last month. This is another book looking at the life of Jim Clark concentrating more on his non-Netscape activities such as the company, Healtheon, and the yacht, Hyperion. The latter is a sailboat with a 197 ft mast (just able to go through the Panama Canal) controlled by 25 SGI workstations. It is an excellent read and gives a good insight into what drives Jim Clark and how internet startups work (or don't).

WWW9: Amsterdam Tutorials

The set of tutorials (15 May 2000) for the Conference have now been agreed:

Full day

XML Boot Camp
Web Protocols, Workloads, Measurement and Caching
Introduction to XSLT and XPath

Half day

Web Security
Crafting and Reformulating HTML as XHTML
Digital Payment Systems
RDF, XML and Metadata
Wireless Access Protocol (WAP)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Practical CSS
SMIL
WebDAV: Collaborative Web Authoring
TV and the Web
XML Schemas
Event-based Notification on the Web
Internet Privacy and P3P
Solving Java Applet Development Issues
3D Graphics
Designing Accessible Web Sites for Multifaceted Media
Legal Issues for Doing Business Online

Full details can be found at: http://www9.org/w9-tutorials.html

WWW9 Amsterdam: Workshops

The set of Workshops (15 May 2000) for the Conference have now been agreed:

Learning Online
The Web and Mobility
Web Engineering
Multimedia on the Web
Universal Accessibility to the Web
Making Best Use of XML Within the Enterprise
Web Measurement, Metrics and Mathematical Models

New Members

The total number of members has risen to 374. The new Members since October are:

CSIR Mikomtek: A part of South Africa's Council for Science and Industrial Research. Mikomtek is concerned with information and communication technologies. Its Communication and Information Delivery System (CiDS) which provides high speed communication using cellular radio communication. It consults in the area of information security. Its most famous product is probably Supertag which allows tagged items to be counted using Radio Frequency Identification even when the items are still packed in cartons.
Deitel & Associates: based in Sudbury, Massachusetts, Deitel is a training organisation with a strong interest in the internet, Java and the Web. Prentice-Hall is part of Deitel.
DevelopMentor: Another training organisation. DevelopMentor specializes in providing instructor-led training courses at training facilities in Southern California, Boston, Portland, and the UK. The London facility opens in Hammersmith next January.
epinions.com: epinions provides opinions. Its aim is to allow the consumer to make better buying decisions on the Web. It allows individuals to make comments on products with the aim of setting up a Web of trust based on the opinions of your friends and colleagues. Areas covered include Newspapers, Casinos, Broadway Shows, Palm Software, Home Networking, Aerobic Equipment, and Windsurfing.
Information Internet: Information Internet was founded in 1995 with the specific objective of developing low cost, real-time, fully electronic, trading. Its MarketMaker software provides a complete trading solution. Its Treasury model, for example, allows the user to access real time pricing, charts and news from either the company's dealers or third party feeds.
Mediasurface: this London-based company aims to deliver world-class solutions for managing Web-based content. One of their products is Mediasurface 2.0 Enterprise Content Management. Reuters and Oxford University Press are two of their customers.