First edition of the Open Data Conference

24 August 2012

W3C will participate in the first edition of the “Open Data Conference” that will take place on September 27, 2012 in Paris, France.

This event with an international dimension will gather public and private decision makers and address some of the pressing challenges facing the Open Data paradigm, such as accountability, privacy, or data licensing.

Among the guests are professor Nigel Shadbolt, a “founding father” of Open Data in England, and Arnaud Montebourg, French Minister of Productive Recovery. Daniel Dardailler, W3C Director of International Relations, will speak on the “Open Data and Future Uses” round-table and present W3C’s involvement in the area.

Registration is open until 24 September, 2012.

Four drafts updated by the CSS Working Group

23 August 2012

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published four Working Drafts :

• CSS Fonts Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules.
• CSS Regions Module Level 3. The CSS regions module allows content to flow across multiple areas called regions. The regions are not necessarily contiguous in the document order. The CSS regions module provides an advanced content flow mechanism, which can be combined with positioning schemes as defined by other CSS modules such as the Multi-Column Module or the Grid Layout Module to position the regions where content flows.
• Selectors Level 4. Selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such form one of several technologies that can be used to select nodes in an XML document. Selectors have been optimized for use with HTML and XML, and are designed to be usable in performance-critical code. They are a core component of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which uses Selectors to bind style properties to elements in the document.
• CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3. This module describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans.

Learn more about the Style Activity.

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Last Call: The WebSocket API

09 August 2012

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of The WebSocket API. This specification defines an API that enables Web pages to use the WebSocket protocol (defined by the IETF) for two-way communication with a remote host. Comments are welcome through 30 August. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity

XForms 2.0 and 'XForms 2.0: XPath expression module' Drafts Published

08 August 2012

The Forms Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts:

• XForms 2.0. XForms is an XML markup for a new generation of forms and form-like applications on the Web, integrated into other markup languages, such as XHTML, ODF or SVG. An XForms-based application gathers and processes data using an architecture that separates presentation, purpose and content. XForms accommodates form component reuse, fosters strong data type validation, eliminates unnecessary round-trips to the server, offers device independence and accessibility, and reduces the need for scripting. XForms 2.0 adds support for defining custom functions, variables, a pluggable expression language with extra functions (XPath 2.0), model-based switch and repeat, Attribute Value Templates, consuming and submitting JSON and CSV instance data, amongst other things.
• The Forms Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of XForms 2.0: XPath expression module. This module defines how XPath could be used for addressing instance data nodes in binding expressions, to express constraints, and to specify calculations in XForms. This module is based on XPath 2.0, but an XPath 1.0 backwards compatibility mode is provided to ensure that nearly all XPath 1.0 expressions continue to deliver the same result with XPath 2.0. This module also defines the XForms Function Library which contains additional functions that are useful for creating forms.

Learn more about the XForms Activity.

Networked Service Discovery and Messaging Draft Published

07 August 2012

The Device APIs Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Networked Service Discovery and Messaging. This specification defines a mechanism for an HTML document to discover and subsequently communicate with HTTP-based services advertised via common discovery protocols within a user's network. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Ambient Light Events Draft Published

02 August 2012

The Device APIs Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Ambient Light Events. This specification defines a means to receive events that correspond to a light sensor detecting the presence of a light. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

MBUI - Task Models Draft Published

02 August 2012

The Model-Based User Interfaces Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of MBUI - Task Models. Task models are useful when designing and developing interactive systems. They describe the logical activities that have to be carried out in order to reach the user’s goals. This document covers the specification of Task Models, with a meta-model expressed in UML, and an XML Schema that can be used as the basis for interchange of Task Models between different user interface development tools. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Web Audio API Draft Published

02 August 2012

The Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web Audio API. This specification describes a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual processing will primarily take place in the underlying implementation (typically optimized Assembly / C / C++ code), but direct JavaScript processing and synthesis is also supported. This API is designed to be used in conjunction with other APIs and elements on the web platform, notably: XMLHttpRequest (using the responseType and response attributes). For games and interactive applications, it is anticipated to be used with the canvas 2D and WebGL 3D graphics APIs. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

W3C Launches Patent Advisory Group for Tracking Preference Expression

01 August 2012

In accordance with the W3C Patent Policy, W3C has launched a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) in response to a disclosurerelated to the Tracking Preference Expression specification published by the Tracking Protection Working Group; see the PAG charter.
W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. Public comments regarding this disclosure may be sent to public-tracking-comments at w3.org (with public archive). Learn more about Patent Advisory Groups.

Patent Advisory Group Recommends Continuing Work on Touch Events Version 1

31 July 2012

The Touch Events Patent Advisory Group (PAG) has published a report recommending that W3C continue work on the Touch Events version 1 specification without changes. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements. See the original announcement of the PAG.

Last Call: Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile

31 July 2012

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile. This document describes a profile of the EXI 1.0 specification for devices with limited memory capacities. Comments are welcome through 14 September. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 Draft Published

31 July 2012

The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Working Draft of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes called the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is the successor of ITS 1.0; it is designed to foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML5, XML based formats in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). In addition to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert ITS attributes to RDFa and NIF are provided. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.