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Issue 44: August 2001

Tim Berners Lee FEng

Tim Berners Lee has been elected to the fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering on the 9th July 2001.

The citation states "Exceptional for inventing the World Wide Web, part of the largest piece of social engineering in history. Outstanding for founding and directing the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum dedicated to leading the Web to its full potential."

W3C Adopts Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Charter

On 19 July, W3C published the Technical Architecture Group charter and revised the Process Document. The TAG will document cross-technology Web architecture principles, and resolve architectural issues. Chaired by the W3C Director, the TAG will consist of five elected and three appointed participants. Like other W3C Working Groups, the TAG will use the Recommendation track to build consensus around its documents. The TAG will conduct most of its work on a public mailing list. The nomination period is expected to begin in a few weeks. Visit the TAG home page.

Amaya Activity

Amaya 5.1 Released

On 11 July, the Amaya team released Amaya 5.1, the latest version of W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 5.1 is a bug fix release, adding flat style to the button bar, a Portuguese translation of Amaya dialogues, and an online documentation index developed by WinWriters. Download Amaya binaries for Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000/NT, and Windows 95/98. Source code is available.

SMIL 2.0 Becomes a W3C Recommendation

On 9 August, W3C released the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 2.0 as a Recommendation. SMIL (pronounced "smile") defines an XML-based language that authors can use to write interactive multimedia presentations. Version 2.0 includes approximately one hundred predefined transition effects, and support for hierarchical layout and animation. See how SMIL is already implemented, and read the press release and testimonials.

Privacy Activity

P3P Deployment Guide Updated

On 27 July, The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Deployment Guide was updated. This guide for Web site operators explains how to write a machine-readable privacy policy, and gives step-by-step instructions for deploying your privacy policy on popular Web servers. Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more about the W3C Privacy Activity.

Office Appearances

Ivan Herman, Head of Offices, will give a state-of-the-art report on 2D Web graphics with David Duce and F.R.A. Hopgood at the EuroGraphics 2001 conference in Manchester, UK, on 6 September. The slides of the presentation are on-line.

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