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Issue 71: November 2003

Amaya 8.2 Released

15 November 2003: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.2 includes new features and enhancements for selection, CSS and CSS debugging, backup files, loaded objects and images, undo, structure and source view, SVG, HTML, and annotations. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux and Windows, and Debian and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.

Proposal for a W3C Web Legal Defense Fund

27 October 2003: With the assistance of the W3C Advisory Board, W3C COO Steve Bratt has proposed a W3C Web Legal Defense fund to allow for the defense of claims that threaten our Members' interests in W3C technology.

W3C Launches Spanish Office

20 October 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Spanish Office in Oviedo, Spain. The Office is hosted by the Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Científica y la Tecnología (FICYT). Francisco Sanchez is Office Manager. Vicente Alvarez-Areces, Luis Iturrioz-Viñuela, Jesús García, Daniel Dardailler, Marie-Claire Forgue and Ivan Herman presented at the opening ceremonies on 20 October in Oviedo. Read the press release and about W3C Offices.

W3C Holds its First Outreach Event in Mainland China

21 October 2003: The China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003 was held in Beijing on 12-13 November. Ivan Herman, Philipp Hoschka, Richard Ishida, Shi Zhongzhi, Judy Brewer, and Matthew May presented keynotes and tutorials. Attendees discussed the future of the Web, accessibility, SVG, the mobile Web, the Semantic Web and internationalization. Registration is open. The event was co-organized by the China Computer Federation and the W3C Office in Hong Kong.

DOM Level 3 Core, and Load and Save Are W3C Candidate Recommendations

7 November 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of two Document Object Model (DOM) specifications to Candidate Recommendations. With DOM Level 3 Core, software developers and Web script authors can access and manipulate HTML and XML content. DOM Level 3 Load and Save allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML document. Comments are welcome through 30 November. DOM Level 3 Events was published as a Working Group Note.

PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

10 November 2003: The World Wide Web Consortium released the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) as a W3C Recommendation. The document has also become an International Standard, ISO/IEC 15948:2003. PNG is a graphics file format for raster images. Indexed-color, grayscale, and truecolor images are supported plus an optional alpha channel. Read more about the Graphics Activity.

W3C Requests '906 Patent Re-Examination

29 October 2003: Acting on the advice of the W3C HTML Patent Advisory Group, W3C has presented the United States Patent and Trademark Office with prior art establishing that US Patent No. 5,838,906 (the '906 patent) is invalid. W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee has written an unprecedented request to US Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property James E. Rogan to take action to remove the patent to allow operation of the Web. Please refer to the briefing.

MathML 2.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

21 October 2003: The World Wide Web Consortium released the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (Second Edition) as a W3C Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. MathML is an XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received and processed on the Web. The second edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Read the testimonials.

Metalog 2.0b Released

21 October 2003: Metalog 2.0b is a reasoning system built for the Semantic Web that adds a query layer on top of RDF. Developed by Massimo Marchiori, Antonio Epifani and Samuele Trevisan, Metalog is user friendly and makes reasoning and thinking about the Web easy through an interface similar to natural language. Download Metalog for Windows and Linux. Free source code is available. Learn more about Metalog, W3C Open Source software and the Semantic Web.

Press Highlights

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W3C Team Talks

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W3C Presentations in November

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