XML UK and the W3C Office in the UK and Ireland will organise a workshop on XML Schema Languages to be held at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire on the 24th June 2004 to be followed by a one day hands-on tutorial in June/July at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Details of speakers and registration will be presented as soon as it is available.
21st Annual British National Conference on Databases will take place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, from 7th - 9th July 2004. Among the invited speakers is the manager of the W3C Office in the UK and Ireland who will discuss "where is the Web going" with reference to the Semantic Web, Trust, Web Services and GRIDs.
2004-05-12: The W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue runs from 19-21 May at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004) in New York, NY USA. W3C Members and Team present two days of content on W3C technologies and achievements. The W3C Track conference room is New York Ballroom B. Conference attendees are also invited to the Developers Day presentations on 22 May.
2004-05-10: To provide a basis for enhancing cooperation between the W3C and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organizations has been drafted. Areas of cooperation include, but are not limited to, MMS (multimedia messaging service, including SMIL and SVG), mobile browsing and multimodal interaction. The MoU was developed with advice from the W3C Advisory Board, has the support of W3C management and Hosts, and has been informally approved by the External Liaison Committee of the OMA Board. Section 10 of the W3C Process Document gives W3C Members a three week period in which to appeal the signing. OMA plans to present this document to the OMA Board for formal approval on 24 May.
2004-04-27: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 8.5 has bug fixes for CSS, (X)HTML, and the Amaya user interface. Download Amaya binaries for Linux and Windows NT/2000/XP and Debian, Mac OS X and RPM packages. Source code is available. Visit the Amaya home page and the Annotea home page.
2004-05-06: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. The new release is easier to use and install. It features new documentation and navigation, and offers helpful explanations and recovery mechanisms instead of fatal errors. Managed by a team of volunteers and the W3C Quality Assurance Activity, and supported by a large community, this validator is the single most popular resource on the W3C Web site. Read the announcement.
2004-05-11: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the CSS3 Basic User Interface Module to Candidate Recommendation. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language is used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. This module addresses user interface states and features, element fragments, forms, stylistic attributes in HTML, focus navigation, and styling elements as icons for accessibility. Comments are invited through 11 November. Visit the CSS home page.
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