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Issue 25: January 2000

XHTML Arrives

On 26 January, the start of the transition of legacy web pages to XML arrived with the release of the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.

HTML currently serves as the lingua franca for millions of people publishing hypertext on the Web. While that is the case today, the future of the Web is with XML (eXtensible Markup Language) reported in previous issues of the Newsletter). XML is bringing the Web forward as an environment that meets the needs of all users.

In designing XHTML 1.0, the challenge was how to design the next generation language for Web documents without making obsolete what is already on the Web. The answer was to take HTML 4.0, and rewrite it as an XML application. In simple terms that means making the HTML a well-formed XML document where start and end tags are always there and match precisely. Empty elements have to use the correct syntax. For example, the following valid HTML 4 fragment:

<P>This is a list:
<Ul>
<lI>First One
<li>Second One</li>
<li>Third One
</ul>
<Hr>
<p>And so on</p>

would need to be changed to:

<p>This is a list:</p>
<ul>
<li>First One</li>
<li>Second One</li>
<li>Third One</li>
</ul>
<hr/>
<p>And so on</p>

In addition to its extensibility, moving from HTML to XML via XHTML 1.0 gives the opportunity for Web content to be made more widely available. People browsing the Web with cell phones or other mobile devices need Web content tailored to their requirements (small screen, transform complicated tables, etc).

The good news is that once you have transformed your document to XHTML 1.0, it will still be processed correctly by current browsers as well as new XML ones.

Using XHTML 1.0, authors will be able to mix existing HTML 4.0 elements with elements from other XML applications such as SMIL and MathML.

So is it going to be a problem converting all my existing pages to XHTML? The answer there is No as there are a number of utilities available including W3C's Tidy tool that will do this for you (see later in this Newsletter).

If you have not made a New Year's Resolution yet, perhaps doing a Spring clean on your HTML pages is the answer.

Full details of the announcement can be found at the W3C web site.

WWW9: Amsterdam: May 15-19, 2000

WWW9 Keynotes

The four keynote speakers for WWW9 in Amsterdam have been finalised. They are:

Charles W. Davies, Psion
Wireless Information Devices and the Mobile Internet
Egbert-Jan Sol, Ericsson
Making the Internet Mobile for Everybody
M. Graeber Jordan, GJordan.com
The Spirit of the WWW in the Corporate Intranet
Paul de Bot, Philips
The Convergence of Internet and Television Technologies: How will it Change the Living Room Experience?

WWW9 Developers Day

Developers' Day at WWW9 will consist of six parallel streams discussing topics of specific interest to Web software developers. The titles and organisers are:

The Semantic Web
Stu Weibel and Eric Miller, OCLC
XML and Related Technologies
Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
Visual and Audio Media
Chris Lilley, W3C
Distributed Computing on the Web
Annrai O'Toole, Iona, Ireland, and Dave Winer, Userland, USA
Web Publishing Tools and Techniques
Dale Dougherty, Songline Studios, USA
The Mobile Web
Gabor Paller, Nokia, Hungary

WWW9 Adds Culture Track

WWW9 has added a Culture Track to its already full programme.

With specific reference to virtual museums, the WWW9 Culture Track will explore how multimedia technology could re-engineer the way visitors presently perceive the experience of visiting a museum or art gallery. It will cover the added value associated with ICT applications, and other technological issues of concern to museums and archives.

Also addressed will be User Interface achievements in areas of graphics and mark-up (HTML, XHTML and XML).

Here is the preliminary draft program for the track:

Tuesday, May 16
Networked Arts: basic issues and achievements
Wednesday, May 17
Museums on the Web: Case Study
Thursday, May 18
On line cultural application: the new paradigm
Developers Day, Friday, May 19
Advanced User Interface, Metadata and IPR Protection

WWW9 Registration Open

Registration for the 9th International World Wide Web Conference is now officially open. The deadline for early bird registration is April 10, 2000.

Strengthen the Web in 2000

W3C would like to thank the Web Community for its support and contributions during 1999. Help us strengthen the Web in 2000 by validating your documents and sites.

Validate documents
Promote Web access

HTML4.01

The Web in 7 Points

W3C has just issued their view of the web in 7 bullet points. See: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Points/ for the details. The headings are:

  1. Universal Access
  2. Semantic Web
  3. Trust
  4. Interoperability
  5. Evolvability
  6. Decentralization
  7. Cooler Multimedia

New Members

The total number of members has risen to 389. The 400 barrier will soon be broken! The new Members since December are:

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