Obituary Jacko van Dijk
2005-09-27:
Recently, the W3C Benelux Office learned that, sadly, Jacko van Dijk, one of the "ambassadors"
of the Dutch WAI project "Drempels Weg", passed away at the age of 32.
Jacko van Dijk, himself seriously disabled,
played an important role in The Netherlands in making people aware of the
problems concerning the internet accessibility for disabled persons.
His efforts were important for the attempts to realize the goals of the
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
W3C will remain very grateful to him for this.
Please consult the (Dutch) websites
Drempels Weg / De ambassadeurs
and In memoriam Jacko van Dijk (11-9-1973 – 25-09-2005).
New W3C member in the Benelux:
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe
(Luxemburg)
2005-09-21:
W3C Benelux is happy to announce that the
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe
(Château de Sanem,
L - 4992 Sanem, Luxemburg)
has joined W3C
by 1 July
2005.
Mathieu le Brun
is now member of the
W3C Advisory
Committee on behalf of the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur
l'Europe.
Please consult http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership
for information on W3C membership.
SMIL 2.1 Is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
2005-09-27: W3C is pleased to announce the
advancement of Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) to Proposed
Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 28 October. SMIL
(pronounced "smile") puts animation on a time line, allows composition
of multiple animations, and describes animation elements for any
XML-based host language. Version 2.1 extends SMIL 2.0 and supports enhanced
interactive multimedia presentations, reuse of SMIL syntax and
semantics, and new mobile profiles. Visit the
synchronized multimedia home page.
Updated:
XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and Supporting Documents
2005-09-16: The XML Query and XSL Working
Groups have released the following Working Drafts of XML Query 1.0, XSL
2.0, XPath 2.0 and supporting documents. The goal of this release is to
permit public review of changes made in response to Last Call comments.
Visit the XML home page.
xml:id Is a W3C
Recommendation
2005-09-09: The World Wide Web Consortium
today released xml:id Version
1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. The specification defines an attribute
name, xml:id, that can always be treated as an identifier
and hence can always be recognized, without fetching external
resources, and without relying on an internal subset. The
Recommendation is the latest deliverable of the XML Core Working Group, part of the W3C
XML Activity.
Scope for Mobile Web Best Practices
Published
2005-09-02: The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Scope of Mobile Web Best
Practices. This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines
for content delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices,
sets out requirements for the "mobileOK" trustmark, and identifies the
goal of one Web. Read about the W3C
Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors,
content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile
operators.