Issue 70: October 2003
Architecture of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated
1 October 2003: The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft of the
Architecture of the World Wide
Web. Drafted for discussion at the TAG's face-to-face meeting, the
document explains Web protocols in three dimensions: identification and
resources, interaction, and representation and formats. Comments are
welcome. Visit the TAG home page.
Tim Berners-Lee Royal Society
Webcast
22 September 2003: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
presented The Future of the World Wide Web (slides) at the Royal Society in London, UK on
Monday, 22 September. The keynote was Webcast live.
W3C Letter Regarding Fee
Proposal for ISO Codes
1 October 2003: W3C wrote to ISO President
Oliver Smoot to express concerns regarding a
Commercial Policies Steering Group (CPSG) proposal to charge for
the use of certain ISO codes, including those for languages (ISO 639)
and countries (ISO 3166). The Unicode Technical Committee has issued a
similar public
position. ISO (International
Organization for Standardization) is the largest standards developer
with
97 national member bodies. W3C's
letter is archived on the public mailing list of the W3C Internationalization Activity.
SVG Mobile Competition:
Entries Due 3 November
30 September 2003: Design a SVG Tiny greeting card in 30k or less, and
win a Nokia
3650 tri-band GSM handset. The best entries will be featured on the
W3C Web site, linked to their designers' Web pages, with an interview
with the winning designer. Enter as many times as you like through 3
November. The SVG Working Group will choose the winner who will be
announced on 24 November. Read about Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG). Announced at SVG Open, the SVG Mobile Competition is the
first in a series of SVG competitions.
XForms and XML Events Are W3C
Recommendations
14 October 2003: The World Wide Web
Consortium released XForms
1.0 and XML Events
as W3C Recommendations. The specifications have been reviewed by the
W3C Membership, who favor their adoption by industry. Written for
authors and implementers alike, XForms is the new generation of Web
forms. XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips
to the server, offer device independence, and, using XML Events, reduce
the need for scripting. For more information please refer to the press release and testimonials, and visit the XForms home page.
Press Highlights
Browse W3C in the Press. A selection
of articles since the last Newsletter:
- "Semantic
Web: Out of the Theory Realm," InternetNews.com, 12
September
- "The
W3C site: A destination to behold," Network World
Fusion, 18 September
- "Standards
Organizations Express Concern About Royalty Fees for ISO Codes,"
Cover Pages, 20 September
- "Government
Web sites struggling to be accessible," GCN.com, 25
September
- "W3C
Investigates HTML," eWEEK, 29 September
- "XHTML 1.0: tout ce qu'il faut savoir pour bien
commencer" (in French), ZDNet.fr, 6 October
- "Software
makers look for profits in e-forms," CNET News.com, 13
October
- "World Wide
Web Consortium Releases XForms 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation,"
Cover Pages, 14 October
- "E-forms
standard finalized," CNET News.com, 14 October
- "
W3C hails Web-based forms standard," Computerworld, 16
October
W3C Team Talks
Browse upcoming W3C
appearances and events.
- 3 November: Task Force meeting, hosted by Oracle, Redwood Shores,
CA, USA
- 3-4 November: XML
Schema Working Group meeting, hosted by Oracle Redwood Shores, CA,
USA
- 4 November: Task Force meeting, hosted by Oracle, Redwood Shores,
CA, USA
- 3-5 November: Web
Services Description Working Group meeting, hosted by Fujitsu,
Santa Clara, CA, USA
- 3-5 November: HTML
meeting, Port Charlotte, Florida, USA
- 5-7 November: Web
Services Architecture Working Group meeting, hosted by Fujitsu,
Santa Clara, CA, USA
- 5 November: XPath Task Force meeting, hosted by Oracle, Redwood
Shores, CA, USA
- 5-7 November: XForms Working Group
meeting, Port Charlotte, Florida, USA
- 6-7 November: XML
Query Working Group, XSL Working Group
meetings, hosted by Oracle Redwood Shores, CA, USA
- 5-7 November: CSS Working Group
meeting, hosted by Hewlett-Packard, San Diego, CA, USA
- 15-17 November: Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) meeting, Kanagawa, Japan
- 17-19 November: Advisory Committee
Meeting, Kanagawa, Japan
Offices Presentations
- Rigo Wenning presented at the
OECD Global Forum on Information Systems and Network Security in
Oslo, Norway on 14 October.
- James Hendler, co-Chair of the W3C Web
Ontology Working Group, spoke about ontologies at the International Lisp
Conference (ILC 2003) in New York, NY, USA on 15 October.
- Philipp Hoschka gave a talk at
Berliner XML Tage
2003
in Berlin, Germany on 15 October.
- Marie-Claire Forgue runs the W3C booth at
la Fête de la Science
in Sophia
Antipolis, France on 18 October.
- Steven Pemberton participates in a panel at the 3rd IEEE Conference
on Standardization and Innovation in
Information Technology at Delft University of Technology, Delft,
The Netherlands on 22 October.
- Ivan Herman presents at the Next Generation
Internet Workshop at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain on
22 October.
- Tim Berners-Lee gives an invited talk at the 2nd International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC2003) in Sanibel Island, FL, USA on 23
October.
- James Hendler speaks at Technology Day
2003: Virtual Delivery (PDF) presented by the Special Libraries Association Maryland
Chapter, in Baltimore, MD, USA on 29 October.
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Fundación ONCE
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Lockheed Martin
Corporation
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Foundation
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