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Issue 59: November 2002

Euroweb 2002 Conference.

The Euroweb 2002 Conference will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK on the 17th and 18th December 2002. EuroWeb 2002 will be a major international forum at which research on the World Wide Web, GRIDs and Web Services is presented. EuroWeb 2002 follows on from the success of the EuroWeb 2001, which was held in Pisa in December, 2001 on the topic of the web in public administration.

NPR Science Friday Interviews Tim Berners-Lee

W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee was a 1 November guest on National Public Radio (NPR) Talk of the Nation: Science Friday. Host Ira Flatow and callers from the United States discussed inventions, the Semantic Web, privacy, patents, broadband, "always on" connections, openness, trust, and spam. NPR provides a three-quarter hour audio archive of the show, as well as Mr. Berners-Lee's previous visit to Science Friday in 1999.

2002 XML Japan Conference and Developers Day 28-30 November in Tokyo

W3C is pleased to co-sponsor 2002 XML Japan to be held 28 November (Mobile XML Day), 29 November (Web Services / Document Day), and 30 November (Developers Day) at Aoyama TEPIA in Tokyo, Japan. Masayasu Ishikawa, W3C HTML Activity Lead, presents on 28 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, gives the keynote on 29 November, and Yasuyuki Hirakawa serves on the Program Committee. Registration is open.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Become W3C Proposed Recommendations

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers.

SVG 1.1 and Mobile Test Suite Published

On 12 November, the SVG Working Group published the SVG 1.1 and SVG Mobile Test Suite in frame-based and SVG-based harnesses. Feedback is welcomed. The suite can be used from the Web, or downloaded as one ZIP file for offline testing.

XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation

W3C released XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 defines a new XML Signature transform to provide a more efficient method for computing a portion of a document to be signed. The Implementation and Interop report includes two Open Source implementations.

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Proposed Recommendation

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. The review period ended 14 November. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion Techniques Working Draft is updated.

Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Updated

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released an update to the W3C Note Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. The document provides references, techniques and strategies to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy ATAG 1.0 checkpoints. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

Technical Reports and Publications

Recommendations

8 November 2002: XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0

Proposed Recommendations

16 October 2002: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
8 November 2002: Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification
13 November 2002: XPointer Framework
13 November 2002: XPointer element() Scheme
13 November 2002: XPointer xmlns() Scheme
15 November 2002: Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic
15 November 2002: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification

Upcoming W3C Team Talks in October

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

On 12 November, Ivan Herman presented at SURFnet Relatiedagen 2002 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
On 13 November, Yves Lafon presented and Marie-Claire Forgue ran a booth at Intégration 2002 Forum XML & Web Services in Paris, France.
On 22 November, Masayasu Ishikawa chairs and introduces XHTML 2.0 and its family including XForms 1.0 at the Open Research Forum (in Japanese) at Keio University SFC in Fujisawa, Japan.
Vincent Quint gives a keynote at IHM 2002 on 26-29 November in Poitiers, France.
At 2002 XML Japan in Tokyo, Japan, Masayasu Ishikawa presents on 28 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa gives the keynote on 29 November, and Yasuyuki Hirakawa serves on the Program Committee.
On 29 November, Daniel Dardailler participates in a panel at DocForum - Rencontres "S@voirs, réseaux, partage" in Lyon, France.

New W3C Members

Please welcome:

Axelero Internet Service Provider Co.
Dennis Gabor College
Fundacion Para el Fomento en Asturias de la Investigacion Cientifiga Aplicada y la Tecnologia (FICYT)
Instituto de Robótica (Universitat de Valencia)
Israel Internet Association
PINT, Inc. (Powell Internet)
Province of Milan