Issue 69: September 2003
Amaya 8.1b Released
8 September 2003: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool.
Version 8.1b has editing enhancements and bug fixes for XHTML, HTML,
CSS and SVG. Download Amaya binaries
for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the
Amaya home page.
Future of Libwww Survey
2 September 2003: W3C has stopped work on
Libwww and invites the libwww user community to
participate in a Future of Libwww
Survey that will help to determine its future. Libwww is a free,
highly modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows.
Read http://www.w3c.org W3C
Open Source/Free software for more information.
W3C Holds Ad Hoc Meeting on Recent
Court Decision, Launches Public Discussion List
28 August 2003: W3C invited its Members as
well as other key commercial and open source software interests to
attend an ad hoc meeting hosted by Macromedia on Tuesday 19 August in San
Francisco, CA, USA. Participants discussed Eolas v. Microsoft and US
Patent 5,838,906. W3C has created the public-web-plugins@w3.org
archived public mailing list for discussion. Please refer to the report from Steve
Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer.
Device Independence Glossary
of Terms Published
25 August 2003: The Device Independence
Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the Glossary of Terms used in the
group's publications. The
glossary definitions are maintained with unique identifiers, and can be
linked to from documents new and old. Read about W3C work on device independence and single-authored content
for all Web access devices.
China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003
This event will be held in Beijing on 12th and 13th November 2003.
Press Highlights
Browse W3C in the Press. A selection
of articles since the last Newsletter:
- "OWL ascends
within standards group," CNET News.com, 20 August
- "OWL flies
as Web ontology language," Computerworld Hong Kong, 20
August
- "W3C
Issues OWL as Candidate Recommendation,"
InternetNews.com, 20 August
- "The Semantic
Web: The OWL has landed," ADT, 27 August
- "Microsoft mulls
tweaks to IE," MSNBC, 29 August
- "W3C
stops work on Libwww," PC Pro, 2 September
- "XForms: tout ce qu'il faut savoir pour migrer des
formulaires HTML" (in French), ZDNet.fr, 2
September
- "Put
XHTML 1.0 Strict and Transitional to work,"
Builder.com, 3 September
- "Access
all sights," Guardian, 4 September
- "Ten
Favorite XForms Engines," XML.com, 10 September
W3C Team Talks
Browse upcoming W3C
appearances and events.
- 22-24 September: Web
Services Description Working Group meeting, hosted by SAP, Palo
Alto, CA, USA
- 24-26 September: W3C
Workshop on Binary Infosets, hosted by Sun Microsystems, Santa
Clara, CA, USA
- 24-26 September: Web
Services Architecture Working Group meeting, hosted by SAP, Palo
Alto, CA, USA
- 6-8 October: Technical Architecture Group
(TAG) meeting, hosted by Hewlett-Packard, Bristol, England
- 14-16 October: XSL Working Group
meeting, hosted by Thai Open Source Software Center, Bangkok,
Thailand
- 21-23 October: QA Working Group/Interest
Group meeting, hosted by NIST, Boulder, CO, USA
- Upcoming Offices Presentations
- Bert Bos speaks at
W3C Mitgliedertreffen
in Erfurt, Germany on
23 September.
- Dave Raggett gives a talk at the UK Unix Users Group AGM
held at University College London, UK on 25 September.
- Deborah Dahl, W3C Multimodal Interaction
Working Group Chair, and James Larson, W3C Voice
Browser Working Group co-Chair, present at SpeechTEK 2003 held 29 September
to 2 October in New York, NY, USA.
- Ivan Herman participates in a panel at iX 2003 in
Singapore on 1 October.
- Ivan Herman presents to the IT Standards Committee, Singapore on 3
October.
Please welcome:
- No new members this month