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Issue 108: December 2006

Keeping Privacy Promises: Privacy Workshop Report

2006-12-14: A W3C Privacy Workshop Report recommending next steps for keeping privacy promises when exchanging sensitive information on the Web is now available. In October 2006, privacy and access control experts from America, Australia, Asia and Europe met to study Web privacy issues and solutions. Please read the press release about the results of the W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement, hosted by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission.

Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries

2006-12-06: The Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries is underway 5-6 December in Bangalore, India. Jataayu Software hosts. Participants are discussing mobile Web access within developing countries in terms of needs, blocking factors and potential uses. "We must ensure that the Web is designed to meet the needs of sparser populations and of those whose only access to the Web may be on their phone," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative.

Quality Assurance Update (QA)

The Fuji release of the CSS Validator was released for the tenth anniversory of CSS, and now validates against CSS 2.1. The release was prepared by Olivier Thereaux and Jean-Guilhem Rouel (W3C), and Peter Zhelezniakov (Sun Microsystems) and many collaborators. The mountain showing in the banner is Mount Fuji as it can be seen from the W3C host at Keio University. Thanks to volunteers, the user interface and documentation as well as error and warning messages have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Spanish. Read more

Timed Text Distribution Profile Is a Candidate Recommendation

2006-11-16: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 - Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP) to Candidate Recommendation. The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 16 February 2007. W3C encourages developers to implement the specification and share their experience with the Timed Text Working Group.

W3C Member News

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Press Highlights

"Tim Berners-Lee talks about W3C reform and reinventing HTML," Ars Technica, 29 October
"W3C Looks to GRDDL For Semantic Web Sense," InternetNews.com, 26 October

W3C Team Talks

Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.

17-19 April 2007:: Web Application Formats WG Meeting, hosted by the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia
6-8 May 2007:: W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (co-located w/ the WWW2007 conference), hosted by W3C/MIT, Banff, Alberta, Canada
8-12 May 2007:: WWW2007, Banff, Canada
21 February:: Ivan Herman gives a tutorial on behalf of the India Office entitled "Introduction to the Semantic Web" at the "International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries"
14 March:: Ivan Herman gives a talk entitled "The Vision of the Semantic Web" at the "Infotech for Pharma & Biotech Europe 2007" on Wednesday, 14 March 2007, in London, UK.

New W3C Members

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Scapa Technologies Limited, Edinburgh, UK