NEWSLETTER W3C Kantoor Benelux - Bureau W3C Benelux - Benelux W3C Office
May - mai - mei 2009
Website: http://www.w3c.nl -- http://www.w3c-benelux.org
HTML 5, Differences from HTML 4 Drafts Published
2009-04-23: The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML 5. HTML 5 adds to the language of the Web: features to help Web application authors, new elements based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. This particular draft specifies how authors can embed SVG in non-XML text/html content, and how browsers and other UAs should handle such embedded SVG content. See also the news about moving some parts of HTML 5 to individual drafts. The full list of changes since the previous draft are listed in the updated companion document HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. Learn more about the HTML Activity.
W3C Invites Implementations of Media
Queries
2009-04-23: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Media Queries. HTML4 and CSS2 currently support media-dependent style sheets tailored for different media types. For example, a document may use sans-serif fonts when displayed on a screen and serif fonts when printed. .screen. and .print. are two media types that have been defined. Media Queries extend the functionality of media types by allowing presentations to be tailored more precisely to device characteristics. Learn more about the Style Activity.
CSS 2.1 Candidate Recommendation Updated
2009-04-23: The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group updated the Candidate Recommendation of Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1) Specification. CSS 2.1 is a style sheet language that allows authors and users to attach style (e.g., fonts and spacing) to structured documents (e.g., HTML documents and XML applications). CSS 2.1 corrects a few errors in CSS2 (the most important being a new definition of the height/width of absolutely positioned elements, more influence for HTML's "style" attribute and a new calculation of the 'clip' property), and adds a few highly requested features which have already been widely implemented. But most of all CSS 2.1 represents a "snapshot" of CSS usage: it consists of all CSS features that are implemented interoperably. This draft incorporates errata resulting from implementation experience since the previous publication. Learn more about the Style Activity.
WWW2009 Opens with Tim Berners-Lee
Keynote "Twenty Years"
2009-04-22: Tim Berners-
Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the
Web, delivered the opening keynote address at the WWW2009
Conference earlier today in Madrid, Spain; keynote
slides are available. During
his talk, titled "Twenty Years," he touched on the future as well, including
topics such as Web applications, open social networking and open linked data.
Shortly before his keynote, Berners-Lee joined Dame Wendy Hall, Robert
Caillau, Vint Cerf, Dale Dougherty and Mike Shaver on a panel to share
thoughts on the twentieth anniversary of the Web. During the remainder of the
week, W3C encourages people to participate in the W3C
track, which this year features two
"camps": the Mobile Widgets
camps on 23 April and the
Social Web Camp on 24 April.
Follow discussion on the #w3ctrack twitter feed.
Eight Proposed Recommendations for XSLT,
XPath, XQuery Published
2009-04-21: The XSL and XML
Query Working Groups have published eight
Proposed Edited Recommendations for Second Editions of XSL Transformations
(XSLT), XQuery 1.0: An XML
Query Language, XML Syntax
for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) and
XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0, together with their supporting documents, XQuery 1.0 and
XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM), XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal
Semantics, XSLT
2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and
Operators. The
second editions, if approved, will add the generate-id function from XSLT to
XPath and XQuery, and will also incorporate the outstanding errata, including
a number of clarifications that may affect implementations. Enhanced test
suites are being augmented and will be published shortly. Review welcome by 31
May 2009. Learn more about XML.
W3C Germany and Austria Office Moves to
Potsdam
2009-04-09: After 12 years of successful work at Fraunhofer (or former GMD) the W3C Germany and Austria Office moves from Sankt Augustin (near Bonn) to Postdam (near Berlin). The University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam (FHP) is the new host of the Office. A ceremonial launch is planned for September 2009. Felix Sasaki will be the new Office Manager at FHP.
W3C would like to thank Fraunhofer and the W3C Germany and Austria Office staff, led by Thomas Tikwinski and Klaus Birkenbihl before him, for their contributions to W3C and the Web during the past 12 years. Learn more about the W3C Offices, regional W3C representatives that help promote the W3C mission.
W3C Launches Social Web Incubator Group
2009-04-06: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Social Web Incubator Group. The group's mission is to understand the systems and technologies that permit the description and identification of people, groups, organizations, and user- generated content in extensible and privacy-respecting ways. The group will be co-chaired by Dan Applequist (Vodafone), Dan Brickley (Vrije Universiteit), Harry Halpin (W3C Fellow from the University of Edinburgh with support from Eduserv). The following W3C Members have sponsored the charter for this group: ASemantics, Boeing, Cisco, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Garlik, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications (IIT-NCSR), NICTA, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUN Microsystems, Talis, Telecom Italia, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh, Universidad Polit�ica de Madrid, University of Versailles, Vrije Universiteit, and Vodafone. Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator Activity work is not on the W3C standards track.
W3C Invites Developers to Mobile
Widgets, Social Web Camps During WWW2009
2009-04-07: W3C invites people to attend the W3C Track at WWW2009, in Madrid, Spain on 23-24 April 2009. Part of WWW2009, the first day of the track is a Mobile Widgets Camp and the second a Social Web Camp. Conference participants and the local developer community are invited to submit topics of discussion in advance, via the W3C Track wikis. In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the Web, will deliver the WWW2009 opening keynote titled "Twenty Years: Looking Forward, Looking Back". Read the press release.
