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1 August 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) as a W3C Recommendation. XHTML 1.0 is a reformulation of HTML in XML, giving the rigor of XML to Web pages. The second edition is not a new version; it brings the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation up to date with comments from the community, ongoing work within the HTML Working Group, and the first edition errata. Read more on the HTML home page.
1 August 2002: Registration is open through 6 September for the W3C Workshop on Device Independent Authoring Techniques to be held in St. Leon-Rot, near Heidelberg, Germany on 25-26 September 2002. Participants will discuss authoring for multiple devices, how markup languages can be used to achieve greater device independence, and possibly new markup standards. Interest statements are due 4 September. Read about the W3C Device Independence Activity.
31 July 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released three first Working Drafts. The Feature Synopsis, Abstract Syntax and Language Reference describe the OWL Web Ontology Language 1.0 and its subset OWL Lite. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. OWL is used to publish and share ontologies on the Web. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
30 July 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Services Architecture Usage Scenarios. The draft is a collection of usage scenarios and use cases used for generating Web services architecture requirements and for evaluating existing technologies. Comments are welcome. Visit the Web Services Activity home page.
30 July 2002: Registration is open for the Forum on Security Standards for Web Services to be held in Boston, MA, USA, on 26 August. Co-sponsored by W3C and OASIS, the forum will explore the relationships between W3C and OASIS Web services and security specifications, and give insights on future directions. Read about W3C's work in encryption, digital signatures, key management, and Web services.
29 July 2002: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen co-chairs and Liam Quin, Charles McCathieNevile, and Dan Connolly attend Extreme Markup Languages held 4-9 August in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. C. M. Sperberg-McQueen presents the closing talk, What matters?. On 14 August, Charles McCathieNevile lectures on Multimedia Accessibility - Current Work at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
26 July 2002: The CSS Working Group has revised CSS Mobile Profile 1.0 to incorporate review suggestions, comments by implementors, and deliberations of the Working Group. The specification defines a subset of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 2 tailored for mobile devices such as wireless phones. Comments are welcome through January 2003. Visit the CSS home page.
25 July 2002: The DOM Working Group has split DOM Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save into two Working Drafts, Validation and Load and Save, and a W3C Note Abstract Schemas (the Note is no longer a work in progress). The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. Comments are welcome. Read about the DOM Activity.
20 July 2002: The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) received the Roland Wagner Award at the International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) on 17 July in Linz, Austria. The award was given by the Austrian Computer Society, in recognition of WAI's international contributions to making Web technologies accessible to the broadest possible audience. Learn more about Web accessibility.
20 July 2002: W3C has issued Exclusive XML Canonicalization as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, the specification augments the Canonical XML Recommendation to better enable a portion of an XML document to be as portable as possible while preserving the digital signature, and works with XML Signature. Read the press release and visit the XML Signature home page.
20 July 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. The Call for Implementations ends 8 August, and comments on implementation experience may be sent to the public comment list. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document. Visit the XML Signature home page.
12 July 2002: The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Events specification. Comments are welcome through 16 August. Language and platform neutral, the system allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides context for each event. Read about the DOM Activity.
11 July 2002: Supported by the W3C UK and Ireland Office and IW3C2, the EuroWeb 2002 Conference will be held in Oxford, UK on 17-18 December 2002. The conference focus is "The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business." Research and position papers should be submitted by 27 September. For more information, please read the call for papers and consult the conference Web site.
10 July 2002: The XML Linking Working
Group has released four Working Drafts, three in Last Call. Comments
are welcome through 31 July. The XPointer Framework is
an extensible system for XML addressing and underlies additional
schemes. The element() scheme
allows basic addressing of XML elements, the xmlns() scheme is
for interpreting namespace prefixes in pointers, and xpointer() scheme
allows full XML addressing. Read about the XML
Activity.
9 July 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
9 July 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the Web Services Description Language 1.2 and bindings for use with SOAP 1.2, HTTP, and MIME. WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. Read the press release and visit the Web Services home page.
8 July 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Media Queries to Candidate Recommendation. This module of the upcoming CSS3 specification proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a style sheet applies to, and expressions to limit a style sheet's scope. Comments are invited. Visit the CSS home page.
8 July 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 6.2 is internationalized and includes more encodings. New features include easier install on Windows; a choice of typical, compact, or custom installation; German documentation thanks to Rudolf Troeller; and CSS, SVG, STIX font, and Annotea icon enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
8 July 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Device Independence Activity through May 2004. In keeping with W3C's goals, the Device Independence Activity works to ensure seamless Web access and single Web authoring on all kinds of devices, for the benefit of Web users and content providers alike. Read the group's work items in its charter and visit the Device Independence home page.
2 July 2002: Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events.
27 June 2002: The W3C Advisory Committee has filled six open seats on the W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. Beginning 1 July, the nine Advisory Board participants are Ann Bassetti (Boeing), Jim Bell (Hewlett-Packard), Carl Cargill (Sun Microsystems), Don Deutsch (Oracle), Steve Holbrook (IBM), Renato Iannella (IPR Systems), Ken Laskey (SAIC), Ora Lassila (Nokia), and Lauren Wood (Unaffiliated). Steve Zilles is the interim Advisory Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board in the W3C Process Document.
27 June 2002: The XML Protocol Working Group has released four SOAP Version 1.2 Last Call Working Drafts: the Primer, Messaging Framework, Adjuncts, and Assertions and Test Collection. Comments are welcome through 19 July. Also published are updates to SOAP Version 1.2 Usage Scenarios and XML Protocol (XMLP) Requirements. Publicly developed, SOAP Version 1.2 is a data transfer protocol designed for information exchange on the Web, using XML as its encapsulation language. Read about the Web Services Activity.
26 June 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Speech Recognition Grammar to Candidate Recommendation. Speech grammars allow voice-based application authors to create rules describing what users are expected to say after listening to each application prompt. Read the press release and testimonials, and visit the Voice Browser home page.
20 June 2002: The joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0. Comments are welcome through 11 July. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document. Visit the XML Signature home page.
19 June 2002: Registration is open for the MathML International Conference 2002 to be held in Chicago, IL, USA, on 28-30 June 2002. W3C is happy to co-sponsor this conference, whose aim is to bring together people involved in defining the future of mathematics and scientific content on the Web. Read about Math at W3C.
17 June 2002: W3C is pleased to co-sponsor the Web Services Conference to be held 11 July 2002 (Technology day) and 12 July (Business day) at Aoyama TEPIA in Tokyo, Japan. On 11 July, Hugo Haas, W3C Web Services Activity Lead, gives the keynote speech, and Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C Device Independence Activity Lead, moderates a panel discussion. Registration is open. Read about Web services.
12 June 2002: W3C is pleased to release the XML 1.0 (Second Edition) Conformance Test Suite, built in cooperation with NIST and formerly hosted by OASIS. The suite contains over 2000 test files that any developer can download free of cost and use to test the conformance of an XML processor to the XML Recommendation. Read the press release.
10 June 2002: Libwww version 5.4.0 has been released for download on the Web and by FTP. Libwww is a free, highly modular client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. The new version features support for WebDAV protocols, RDF parser bug fixes, and updated auto-tool files scripts. Thanks to Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, Richard Atterer, and many others for their contributions. To carry on this work, a project coordinator, a documentation maintainer, and other volunteers are needed. Please write to the www-lib@w3.org mailing list.
5 June 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 1 July. The sixth component of DOM Level 2, DOM2 HTML is a set of interfaces used to manipulate the structure and contents of HTML and XHTML documents. Read more about the DOM Activity.
4 June 2002: The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Web Service Description Usage Scenarios. The document is part of W3C development of a language used to describe interfaces to Web services and how to interact with them. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.
29 May 2002: On Friday, 31 May, power at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) will be turned off at approximately 8:00 p.m. Eastern (0:00Z 1 June) to complete retooling of the building's power configuration. All services will be suspended and the site will be accessible in a read-only state. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued, and posted when the power is restored. Power is expected to return by 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 1 June (21:00Z). We apologize for the inconvenience.
28 May 2002: Vincent Quint presents Documents structurés sur le Web (in French) at IDT/net 2002 in Paris, France. On 5 June, Tatsuya Hagino presents W3C Technology on Metadata (PDF in Japanese) at the JAGAT seminar in Tokyo, Japan. On 15 June, Karl Dubost presents Les standards Web? Ah non, jamais! in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. On 18 June, Judy Brewer and Wendy Chisholm present a 1/2 day tutorial, Web Accessibility: Technology and Policy for an Inclusive Future, at INET 2002 in Arlington, VA, near Washington, D.C., USA. On 20 June, Daniel J. Weitzner participates in the Panel on Private Governance: Perils and Prospects for Self-Regulation (G-2), also at INET 2002. On 30 June, Vincent Quint and Irène Vatton present MathML in e-Learning with Amaya at the MathML Conference 2002 in Chicago, IL, USA. Browse W3C appearances and events.
24 May 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group on digital signatures, the specification provides a method to exclude ancestor context from a canonicalized subset of an XML document. Read about XML Signature.
23 May 2002: Joseph Reagle, W3C Policy Analyst, has been chosen as one of Technology Review's "2002 TR100," a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world. The magazine has recognized Joseph's contributions to developing open Web technologies related to privacy, security, and digital signatures. Join us in congratulating Joseph for his achievement. Read about W3C work on Privacy, XML Signature, XML Encryption, and XML Key Management.
21 May 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is holding a series of public one-day events across Europe from 21 May to 3 June, in Paris, Vienna, Dublin, and Brussels. The W3C Interop Tour promotes W3C technologies, and demonstrates their interoperability on the World Wide Web. The tour also marks the start of three new regional W3C Offices, expanding the impact of W3C in Europe. Read the press release.
16 May 2002: The W3C Team presented over 25 talks at the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002) in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, during May. Slides are available for the W3C Track chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue and the keynote speech given by Tim Berners-Lee. Read about the Team and W3C presentations.
16 May 2002: The CSS Working Group has released four Working Drafts.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. Read about CSS level 3 and visit the CSS home page.
16 May 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released four Working Drafts.
The W3C QA Activity's goals include planning and process; better, more testable specifications; coordination with internal and external groups; and building and acquiring conformance test materials. Comments are welcome. Visit the QA home page.
14 May 2002: The deadline for early registration for the MathML International Conference 2002 has been extended from 17 May to 24 May. W3C is happy to be a co-sponsor of this conference, in Chicago 28-30 June, whose aim is to bring together those involved in defining the future of mathematics on the Web under the rubric "MathML and Technologies for Mathematics on the Web". Read more about Math at W3C.
6 May 2002: As W3C increases its presence worldwide through its Office program, some of the Offices have been transformed into regional Offices. This means that they are not bound to national borders any more and that they act as regional outreach centers for countries that share common culture, history, or language. As a first step, the former W3C German Office is now the W3C Office in Germany and Austria, the former W3C UK Office is now the W3C Office in the UK and Ireland, and the former W3C Dutch Office is now the W3C Office in the Benelux (i.e., Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg). Read more about the W3C Offices Program.
30 April 2002: The Internationalization Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0. Comments are welcome through 31 May. This Architectural Specification provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for interoperable text manipulation on the World Wide Web. Read about the Internationalization Activity.
30 April 2002: The HTML Working Group and the SVG Working Group have worked together to publish the first Working Draft of "An XHTML + MathML + SVG Profile." An XHTML+MathML+SVG profile is a profile that combines XHTML 1.1, MathML 2.0, and SVG 1.1 together. This profile enables mixing XHTML, MathML and SVG in the same document using XML namespaces mechanism, while allowing validation of such a mixed-namespace document. Read about the HTML Activity and the Graphics Activity.
30 April 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of "RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema", which describes how to use RDF to describe RDF vocabularies. This specification also defines a basic vocabulary for this purpose, as well as conventions that can be used by Semantic Web applications to support more sophisticated RDF vocabulary description. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
30 April 2002: The XML Query Working Group, XML Schema Working Group, and XSL Working Group have released a number of documents through joint efforts (see the status section of each document for authorship information):
XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, XQuery is an query language for XML, and XSLT is a language for describing XML transformations. Read about how they work together as part of the XML Activity.
30 April 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to Candidate Recommendations. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web, in XML. Read the press release and testimonials, and visit the SVG home page.
29 April 2002: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of Requirements for WCAG 2.0. Written for page authors, site developers, and developers of authoring tools, WCAG checkpoints explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to all users. Feedback is welcomed. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
29 April 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released updated Working Drafts of the RDF Primer, RDF Test Cases, and RDF Model Theory. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. The primer provides the fundamentals required to use RDF in applications. The test cases described correspond to technical issues the Working Group is addressing. The model theory Working Draft specifies model-theoretic semantics for RDF and RDFS, and some basic results on entailment. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
29 April 2002: The Web Services Architecture Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Services Architecture Requirements, the reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. The Web Services Description Working Group has released the first Working Draft of Web Service Description Requirements, the definitions and requirements for application to application communication. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity.
29 April 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 6.1 is a bug fix release adding support for more international documents and encodings and new MIME types; enhanced SVG, MathML, annotation, and CSS support; and other new features. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
26 April 2002: The joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group has released a Working Draft of XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0. The draft defines a means to digitally sign a document subset using XPath, the language for addressing parts of an XML document. Comments are welcome. Visit the XML Signature home page.
25 April 2002: The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML 1.1. Comments are welcome through 28 June. Built from XML Blueberry Requirements, the draft addresses Unicode and line ending issues. Everything that is not forbidden is permitted in XML 1.1 names. Read about the XML Activity.
24 April 2002: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0. Comments are welcome through 24 May. VoiceXML uses XML to bring synthesized speech, spoken and touch-tone input, digitized audio, recording, telephony, and computer-human conversations to the Web. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
24 April 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 6.0 include support for more international documents and encodings and new MIME types, and enhanced SVG, MathML, annotation, and CSS support. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.
22 April 2002: The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of CSS3 module: Color. Comments are welcome through 17 May. The draft describes properties that authors can use to specify foreground color and opacity, ICC color profiles, and rendering intent of image content. Visit the CSS home page.
22 April 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Hungarian Office in Budapest, Hungary. The Office is hosted by the Department of Distributed Systems of MTA SZTAKI (Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). László Kovács is the Office Manager, and the coordinator is Éva Megyaszai. Learn more about W3C Offices.
22 April 2002: The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of SVG 1.1/1.2/2.0 Requirements for future versions of the SVG language. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. Comments are welcome. Read more on the SVG home page.
19 April 2002: The W3C Note Describing and retrieving photos using RDF and HTTP has been updated. As seen in the demo, the authors' system includes RDF schemas, search methods, data-entry software, and a way to serve photos and metadata over HTTP.
19 April 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C Korean Office (in Korean) based at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Daejeon, Korea. Dr. Steven R. Bratt, W3C COO, Dr. Seungtaik Yang of the Korean Ministry of Information and Communication, and Dr. Gilrok Oh, President of ETRI, are among those attending today's opening ceremonies. Read the press release and more about W3C Offices.
16 April 2002: The P3P Specification Working Group has released A P3P Preference Exchange Language (APPEL) 1.0 as a Working Draft and companion to the P3P specification. The APPEL language describes collections of privacy policy preferences between P3P user agents. Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more on the W3C Privacy Activity.
16 April 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P 1.0) as a W3C Recommendation. The specification has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. P3P allows people to define and publish their Web site privacy policies, and helps automate how those policies are read. P3P also gives users control over the use of their personal information on Web sites they visit, thus promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Read the press release and testimonials.
10 April 2002: The DOM Working Group has released two DOM Level 3 Working Drafts, the Core Specification and the Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. Comments are invited. Read about the DOM Activity.
8 April 2002: Jigsaw version 2.2.1 is available for download. The new version includes a security fix for URI parsing, a new JigShell utility, XHTML/HTML validation on PUT, JigEdit support for WebDAV, Apache mod_asis, and PushCache contributed by Paul Henshaw. The release notes list all new features and bug fixes. Jigsaw is W3C's leading-edge Web server platform implemented in Java. Learn more about the Jigsaw Activity.
5 April 2002: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity.
3 April 2002: The XML Core Working Group has released Working Drafts of Namespaces in XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1 Requirements. Version 1.1 will incorporate errata in version 1.0, and provide a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Read more about the XML Activity.
1 April 2002: Browse past W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events.
1 April 2002: The conference program and registration are available for the SVG Open / Carto.net Developers Conference to be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17 July 2002, with 6 additional workshops on 18 July. SVG Open is a platform for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. The event is organized by ETH Zurich, W3C and Zurich University. The deadline for early bird registration is 30 April.
1 April 2002: W3C is pleased to announce W3C Mailing List Search Services. Olivier Thereaux of the W3C Systems Team developed the services based on Namazu, a full text search engine. W3C maintains hundreds of mailing lists, over 170 of them public. Search documentation is available, and comments are welcome.
28 March 2002: The DOM Working Group has released Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath as a Last Call Working Draft. The draft provides functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. Comments are welcome through 1 May. Read about the DOM Activity.
26 March 2002: A Working Draft of the XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics has been released. XQuery is a computer language designed to return information to users or their agents. It is applicable to XML data sources from documents to databases, search engines, and object repositories. XQuery is defined jointly by the XML Query Working Group, part of the XML Activity, and the XSL Working Group, part of the Style Activity.
25 March 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released a Working Draft of the RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised). With new support for XML Base, the document updates the grammar in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification in terms of the XML Infoset and RDF Model Theory. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
21 March 2002: The W3C Track has been announced for the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002) in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. W3C will present three days on 8-10 May: W3C's Achievements and Expectations, Web Services, the Semantic Web, XML, Document Formats, Cool Web, Universal Access, Device Independence, Amaya, and a Town Meeting. Please visit the W3C Track page for details on presentations. Conference registration is open.
21 March 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the RDF Primer. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. This primer provides the fundamentals required to use RDF in applications. Read about the Semantic Web Activity.
18 March 2002: The XKMS Working Group has published three first Working Drafts. The XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys for use with XML Signature and XML Encryption. XML Key Management (2.0) Requirements, in Last Call through 15 April, specifies design principles and scope. X-BULK allows bulk registration necessary for systems such as smart card management. Comments are welcome. Visit the XKMS home page.
15 March 2002: W3C held its second annual Technical Plenary and Working Group Meeting on 25 February - 1 March in Cannes Mandelieu, France. More than 20 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups held face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, over 200 participants attended the all day public plenary. Minutes have been published. If your organization would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page.
14 March 2002: W3C's Semantic Web Advanced Development initiative announces the release of IsaViz, a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs. IsaViz has a 2.5D user interface allowing smooth zooming and navigation. IsaViz supports RDF/XML and N-Triple import and export, and SVG and PNG export. Developed by Emmanuel Pietriga of W3C and Xerox Research Centre Europe, IsaViz is based on the Xerox Visual Transformation Machine, Hewlett-Packard's Jena, Graphviz from AT&T Research, and Apache's Xerces. Learn more about IsaViz.
12 March 2002: Workshop materials are available for the W3C Workshop on Delivery Context held at W3C/INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, France, on 4-5 March. Participants exchanged ideas and developed a roadmap for the W3C Device Independence Activity work on delivery context, a term used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of user Web access mechanisms.
8 March 2002: The Web Ontology Working Group has released a Working Draft of requirements for the Ontology Web Language (OWL) 1.0. Automated tools can use common sets of terms called ontologies to power services such as more accurate Web search, intelligent software agents, and knowledge management. Read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
4 March 2002: Browse past W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events.
4 March 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform to Candidate Recommendations. A companion document, XML Encryption Requirements has been released as a W3C Note. Encryption makes sensitive data confidential for storage or transmission. Comments are welcome through 25 April. Read about the W3C XML Encryption Activity.
4 March 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Korean Office (in Korean). The Office is hosted by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Daejeon, Korea. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.
26 February 2002: Responding to comments from the public, W3C Members, the W3C Advisory Committee, and the Open Source/Free Software community, the Patent Policy Working Group has released a Royalty-Free Patent Policy interim Working Draft. Its goal is to produce W3C Recommendations that can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis. Comments are welcome. Read more in the press release and backgrounder.
21 February 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Produced by the XML Core Working Group, XInclude introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents using elements, attributes, and URI references. Comments are invited through 30 April. Read about the XML Activity.
21 February 2002: The Voice Browser Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome. Visit the Voice Browser home page.
20 February 2002: The W3C Internationalization Working Group has released an interim Working Draft of the Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0 recording their progress. This document provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference for interoperable text manipulation. Please hold comments until the second Last Call. Read about W3C work on internationalization.
20 February 2002: The CSS Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of CSS3 module: Lists. This module of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 3 describes how lists are rendered and offers enhanced list marker styling. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
19 February 2002: The CSS Working Group has released three Working Drafts: Backgrounds, Cascading and Inheritance, and Color. Each is a module of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 3, a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. Comments are welcome. Visit the CSS home page.
18 February 2002: An update to Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages has been released as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C Note. These guidelines cover the use of Unicode with markup languages such as XML, and are published jointly by the Unicode Technical Committee and the W3C Internationalization Working Group and Interest Group. Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.
15 February 2002: The SVG Working Group has released two Last Call Working Drafts. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1 is a modularization of the SVG language used to build profiles. Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic defines SVG Tiny for highly restricted mobile devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile devices. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. Comments are welcome through 15 March. Visit the SVG home page.
14 February 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Multimodal Interaction Activity. By developing markup specifications for synchronization across multiple modalities and devices, the new Activity is extending the Web user interface. Read more on the Multimodal Interaction Activity home page.
14 February 2002: The DOM Test Suite Group has released the first version of the DOM Conformance Test Suite for Level 1 Core. Launched by W3C and NIST, the USA National Institute of Standards and Technology, this work is a publicly developed and open framework to test Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Core implementations. Comments are welcome.
14 February 2002: The RDF Core Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of RDF Model Theory. The document provides a precise semantic theory for RDF and RDFS, and sharpens the notions of consequence and inference in RDF. Learn more on the RDF home page, and read about the W3C Semantic Web Activity.
14 February 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Exclusive XML Canonicalization to Candidate Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, the specification provides a method to exclude ancestor context from the canonicalized form of a subset of an XML document. Comments are welcome through 16 April. Read the interoperability report and more about the XML Digital Signature Activity.
14 February 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, XML digital signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and signer authentication services. Read the press release and testimonials.
13 February 2002: W3C is pleased to be co-sponsoring the second international MathML conference, "MathML and Technologies for Mathematics on the Web," scheduled for 28-30 June 2002, near Chicago, IL, USA. The deadline for submitting abstract and panel proposals is 18 February. Poster abstracts and demo proposals are due 15 March. MathML 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation one year ago. Visit the MathML Conference 2002 Web site.
11 February 2002: The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 Deployment Guide has been updated. Written for content owners and Webmasters, the guide explains how to write a machine-readable privacy policy, and gives step-by-step instructions for deploying your privacy policy on popular Web servers. Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more about the W3C Privacy Activity.
8 February 2002: The Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts. DOM Level 3 XPath provides functionalities to access a DOM tree using XPath 1.0. DOM Level 3 Events is an interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically update the content, structure, and style of documents. Comments are welcome. Read about the W3C DOM Activity.
4 February 2002: The QA Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of the QA Framework: Introduction. This draft introduces the goals and structure of the overall W3C Quality Assurance (QA) framework and includes a first version of the Process & Operational Guidelines for promoting and facilitating the quality practices of W3C Working Groups. Comments are welcome. Visit the QA Working Group home page.
1 February 2002: Representing the W3C Team at PAGE2002 in Tokyo, Japan: on 7 February, Norio Touyama gives an Introduction to W3C Activities and Max Froumentin speaks on Web-based publishing using XSL, and on 8 February Martin J. Dürst speaks on Metadata and the Semantic Web (in Japanese). Charles McCathieNevile gives a series of talks in Finland including a two-day workshop at Mlab/UIAH in Helsinki on 5-6 February. On 12-14 February, Thierry Michel and Vincent Hardy give SVG and SMIL demos at the W3C booth at IMAGINA.02 held at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. On 25 February, Ivan Herman presents a tutorial 2D Web Graphics: SVG at the Web3D 2002 Symposium in Tempe, Arizona, USA.
31 January 2002: The SYMM Working Group has published XHTML+SMIL Profile as a W3C Note integrating a subset of the SMIL 2.0 specification with XHTML. The profile includes modules for animation, content control, media objects, timing and synchronization, time manipulations, and transition effects. Read about the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Activity.
28 January 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification to Proposed Recommendation. P3P is a simple automated way for users to gain control over the use of their personal information on Web sites they visit. Comments are welcome through 25 February. Read the answers to frequently asked questions about P3P and more about the W3C Privacy Activity.
25 January 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Web Services Activity. Initially composed of three Working Groups and a Coordination Group and folding in the former W3C XML Protocol Activity, the new Activity will develop a set of interfaces for application to application communication on the Web. Chartered to build three Recommendations, Web services work is conducted publicly. Read more in the Web Services Activity statement.
25 January 2002: The P3P Specification Working Group has published An RDF Schema for P3P as a W3C Note. Based on The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification Last Call Working Draft, the Note represents one possible RDF schema for P3P. P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Comments are welcome. Read about the W3C Privacy Activity.
24 January 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium has published Current Patent Practice as a W3C Note. Reviewed by the Advisory Board, the Note represents the current state of W3C patent practice as implemented by the Team for W3C Recommendations. It serves as a guide for W3C Activities between now and when the policy developed by the Patent Policy Working Group is finalized. Comments are welcome on the publicly archived mailing list www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org.
23 January 2002: The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Media queries. The draft proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a style sheet applies to, and provides for expressions to limit a style sheet's scope. Comments are invited. Visit the CSS home page.
18 January 2002: The XForms Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XForms 1.0. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. Comments are welcome through 22 February. Visit the XForms home page.
17 January 2002: The CSS Working Group is
pleased to announce the first release of the CSS Selectors
Test Suite written by Daniel Glazman (Netscape/AOL), Ian Hickson,
and Tantek Çelik (Microsoft) for Selectors and the Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) language Levels 2 and 3. Ian Hickson developed variants for all
kinds of XML and HTML in a format invented by Tantek Çelik. The
original CSS1 Test Suite has been
converted to the new format. object elements allow the
same tests to be used in different test suites. The Working Group
welcomes comments.
Visit the CSS home page.
14 January 2002: The DOM Working Group has released two updated DOM Level 3 Working Drafts, the Core Specification and the Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. Comments are invited. Read about the W3C DOM Activity.
13 January 2002: Dr. Jean-François Abramatic steps down as W3C Chairman. From 1996 to 2001, Jean-François led the Consortium with wisdom and insight. Many thanks and best wishes to Jean-François! Please join W3C in welcoming Dr. Steven R. Bratt, W3C's new Chief Operating Officer. Steve will oversee worldwide operations, the W3C Process, the Team, strategic plans, budget, legal matters, and major events. See a photo of our new COO and visit People of the W3C.
13 January 2002: W3C Team members will attend the Twentieth International Unicode Conference in Washington, DC, USA. On 29 January, Martin J. Dürst and François Yergeau give a tutorial titled Weaving the Multilingual Web: Standards and their Implementations. On 30 January, Vincent Quint presents Amaya: Towards an Internationalized Web Authoring Tool and Chris Lilley presents SVG: Vector Graphics meets Unicode. On 31 January, Martin Dürst gives a tutorial titled UTF-8: Properties and Usage.
9 January 2002: The SVG Working Group has updated two Working Drafts. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1 is a modularization of the SVG language used to build profiles. Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic defines SVG Tiny for highly restricted mobile devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile devices. SVG delivers accessible, dynamic, and reusable vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. Comments are welcome. Read more on the SVG home page.
8 January 2002: Philippe Le Hégaret presents A Short History of the Web at the Faculty of Science, University of Nice, France on 8 January. On 10 January, Daniel Dardailler presents an Update on W3C Technologies and Vincent Quint speaks at Autrans 2002 (in French) "Internet au défi des usages" in Autrans (Vercors), France. On 14 January, Philippe Le Hégaret gives a talk on DOM Level 3 at ILOG in Sophia-Antipolis, France. On 22 January, Daniel Dardailler presents Tools and standards: Evolution and perspectives at the Benchmark Forum (in French) "Gestion de contenu Internet-Intranet" in Paris, France. On 23 January, Tim Berners-Lee gives a talk titled Semantic Web: Toward Machine Processable Data on the Web at the Cambridge-MIT Institute Distinguished Lecture Series "Innovation at the Boundaries" in Cambridge, MA, USA. On January 25, Ivan Herman gives a W3C Overview to employees of ETRI in Daejeon, Korea. On January 28, Ivan Herman presents A Tour Around W3C XML Recommendations at IDA in Singapore.
7 January 2002: Registration is open through 11 February for the W3C Workshop on Delivery Context to be held at W3C/INRIA in Sophia-Antipolis, France, on 4-5 March 2002. Participants will exchange ideas and develop a roadmap for the W3C Device Independence Activity work on delivery context, a term used to describe user preferences and the capabilities of their Web access mechanism. Position papers must be submitted by 11 February.
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