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Issue 62: February 2003

Happy Fifth Birthday to XML

birthday cake for XML Celebrate the fifth birthday of the Extensible Markup Language (XML), first published as a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 1998. Visit the XML home page. Read about XML's growth in this article by Dave Hollander and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, participants in the W3C XML Working Group who wrote the original twenty-five page XML specification. The authors believe, "Just as interchangeable parts drove the Industrial Age, reusable information powers the Information Age."

XML's birthday and the people who built it are featured in Developers reflect on the Web's lingua franca by Evan Hansen and Paul Festa at CNET News.com.

W3C Domains Reorganized in 2003

To manage related Activities, the W3C Team groups them into four Domains. Starting in 2003, Document Formats is merged into the Interaction Domain led by Philipp Hoschka. The Internationalization Activity and work on XSL and XSLT move to Architecture. The Technology and Society and the Web Accessibility Initiative Domains are unchanged..

RDF Validator Updated

The W3C RDF Validation Service has been updated to deal correctly with a wide range of characters and character encodings for better internationalization and to support Last Call Working Drafts issued by the RDF Core Working Group. The RDF Validator is based on the ARP parser in Jena 1.6.1. Graphs are generated using GraphViz 1.8.9. The service runs under Jigsaw.

SVG Open 2003: Call for Papers and Early Bird Registration

Early bird registration has started for SVG Open 2003, to be held in Vancouver, Canada on 15-18 July 2003, with additional half-day workshops and tutorials on 13-14 July. Co-sponsored by W3C, the SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. The call for papers is open through 28 February.

Common HTTP Implementation Problems Note Published

Olivier Théreaux of the W3C Team has released Common HTTP Implementation Problems as a W3C Note. Following this set of twelve guidelines will improve implementations of HTTP and related standards as well as their use. The Note explains the concepts, points out common mistakes and suggests best practices. Visit the W3C Quality Assurance (QA) home page.

Common User Agent Problems Note Updated

Karl Dubost of the W3C Team has released an update to the Common User Agent Problems W3C Note. The Note explains common mistakes that Web client software makes due to incorrect or incomplete implementation of specifications. It offers suggestions for good user agent behavior. Read about the Quality Assurance Activity.

Amaya 7.2 Released

Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 7.2 is a bug fix release with user interface, annotation, XHTML, HTML, SVG, MathML, CSS, and XML enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Requirements for the Ink Markup Language as a W3C Note. This data format represents ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus, and is used to input and process handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

W3C Member Organizations

The Consortium now consists of 437 Member organizations. New Member Orientation information, the full Membership list, and List of Advisory Committee representatives are available at the W3C Member Site.

For changes and questions about W3C Membership, please contact Alan Kotok (kotok@w3.org), Susan Westhaver (susan@w3.org), or Christelle Fonteneau (christel@w3.org).

Please send any changes in W3C Advisory Committee representation to ac-update@w3.org.

Upcoming W3C Team Talks in October

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

On 5 February, Yasuyuki Hirakawa, Kazuhiro Kitagawa and Masayasu Ishikawa presented at PAGE2003 (in Japanese) in Tokyo, Japan. On 12-13 February, Philipp Hoschka and Thierry Michel spoke at SMIL Europe 2003 in Paris, France. On 17 February, Massimo Marchiori presents at the International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management (MKM 2003) in Bertinoro, Italy. On 22 February, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen speaks at korpus linguistik deutsch (in German) in Würzburg, Germany. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

New W3C Members

Please welcome:

eCommerce Innovation Centre (eCIC)
Hicks & Associates, Inc.
Openstream, Inc.
Vocalocity, Inc.