News

02/21/2012 - 16:50

How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All is updated

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has updated How to Make Presentations Accessible to All. This WAI resource helps you make presentations, meetings, training, conferences, etc. accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others.

02/21/2012 - 16:37

Last Call: Timing control for script-based animations

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Timing control for script-based animations. This document defines an API web page authors can use to write script-based animations where the user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of the animation.

02/18/2012 - 01:11

W3C Launches Privacy Interest Group

W3C launched today a new Privacy Interest Group, whose mission is to improve the support of privacy in Web standards by monitoring ongoing privacy issues that affect the Web, investigating potential areas for new privacy work, and providing guidelines and advice for addressing privacy in standards development. The group may consider issues such as online tracking; location, health and financial data; eGovernment initiatives; and online social networking and identity.

02/16/2012 - 18:05

W3C Opens Office in Russia

W3C announces today the opening of a new Russia Offices, as part of increasing inclusion and participation in W3C. The Office is hosted by the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (HSE), founded in 1992. As one of Moscow's leading Universities, HSE will work with W3C to strengthen ties to both industry and research in Russia as well as HSE's many international academic and industry partners.

02/16/2012 - 17:32

SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation

The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0. This document specifies how SOAP binds to a messaging system that supports the Java Message Service (JMS) [Java Message Service]. Binding is specified for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 using the SOAP 1.2 Protocol Binding Framework. This specification also describes how to use WSDL documents to indicate and control the use of this binding.

02/16/2012 - 17:22

State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. This document describes SCXML, or the "State Chart extensible Markup Language". SCXML provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on CCXML and Harel State Tables. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.

02/14/2012 - 16:06

Last Call: CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3 for the purpose of updating the previous Candidate Recommendation. This module of CSS contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. The main extensions compared to level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes with
shadows.

02/14/2012 - 15:51

XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases Note Published

The XML Core Working Group has published a Group Note of XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases. This document outlines the requirements and use cases for to changes to XInclude: support for RFC 5147 and improved communication between the pre- and post-inclusion Infosets. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.