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2006-05-23: We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the
Fifteenth International World Wide
Web Conference (WWW2006) for discussion on Web standards in media, health
sciences, and international commerce, as well as opportunities in the next
wave of Internet and Web technical development. Come learn about the latest
developments in accessibility, browser security, Semantic Web applications,
SVG graphics, compound document formats and styling, Web services, XML tools,
and the Mobile Web Initiative. The W3C Track runs from 24-26 May in
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Read the press release. (News
archive)
2006-05-20: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory
Committee Meeting on 21-22 May in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. W3C Member
organizations participate in two days of discussions and strategic
planning about W3C Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C
Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting on 29-30
November in Tokyo, Japan. (News
archive)
2006-05-18: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web CGM Working Group. Lofton Henderson will Chair this Working Group, which is chartered through 31 May 2007 to produce a W3C Recommendation for version 2.0 of the WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the WebCGM Working Group home page. (News archive)
2006-05-18: In
a 17 May 2006 press release, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
Annan established "an Advisory Group to assist him in convening the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF), a new forum for a
multi-stakeholder dialogue on Internet governance." Daniel Dardailler, W3C's
Associate Chair for Europe, will represent W3C on the new Advisory Board. W3C
looks forward to sharing its experience in distributed consensus-building
within this new international environment for standardization. (News
archive)
2006-05-18: W3C holds the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository on 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain. Application and database developers and others are invited to discuss the design, implementation and use of a repository of device information for content and service providers. Position papers are due 31 May. Read the press release, about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative. (News archive)
2006-04-29:The opening of the W3C China Office was successfully held at Beihang University on April 27th and 28th, 2006. As is expected, it turned out to be an event containing a rich set of strategy and technical talks with representatives from the three W3C hosts, officials of the Chinese government and Beihang University, experts on Web technologies, and representatives from Chinese IT enterprises and academia. This two-day opening event acted as a platform for exchanging ideas among all participants.
2006-04-03:The opening of the W3C China Office will be held at Beihang University on April 27th and 28th, 2006. It will be an event containing a rich set of strategy and technical talks with representatives from the three W3C hosts, officials of the Chinese government and Beihang University, experts on Web technologies, and representatives from Chinese IT enterprises and academia. This two-day opening event will be a platform for exchanging ideas among all participants. China's Web community will make full use of this opportunity to expose to the global community its various achievements and will learn from international experts.
2006-04-02:The Voice Browser Working Group aims to maintain and enhance the W3C Speech Interface Framework suit of specifications.To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis. The working group meets face to face three to four times a year. The second face to face meeting of 2006 has been decided to be hold in Beijing, on the week before the planned opening of W3C China Office.
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The World Wide Web Consortium(W3C), started in 1994, is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is: To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines. Till now, W3C has World Offices in fifteen regions around the world. Organizations join W3C to work and exchange ideas with more than 400 Members, including the world's foremost technology companies. In China, more and more institutes, research centers as well as IT enterprises are engaging in Web technologies. As we can see, China has a prominent speed and is highly potential in web technology development.
To our honor, Beihang University was successfully qualified to host W3C Chinese Office in October, 2006, which is W3C's first branch office in China region besides Hong Kong. It is said the set up the office will of great importance to the developments of both China's web technology and W3C. With the office hosted at Beihang University, China is playing a key role in the field of WWW and web technology, where China will join leading the future development of WWW. What's more, just as far as Beijing is concerned, a number of reseach centers and IT enterprises have owned W3C's membership and more and more of the others are applying its membership. Obviously, China is highly potential in the development of web technology. In a word, Beihang's sucess in hosting W3C China Office will not only help Beihang to take part in global IT process, but also is a great promotion for China's web technology development.
More2006-05-18: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 that incorporates comments from their 18 April 2006 Last Call Working Draft. This document aims to improve user experience by describing how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Visit the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group home page.
2006-05-18: The Voice Browser, Web API and Web Application Formats (WAF) Working Groups jointly released a Working Draft of Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0. The draft describes a mechanism in use by voice browser vendors that allows content providers to specify the access policy of that content. Implementors should perform their own security analysis. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity.
2006-05-18: The Web Services Description Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0: RDF Mapping. Comments are welcome through 17 July. WSDL 2.0 models and describes modular Web services and is used to document distributed systems and to automate communication between applications. The draft describes WSDL in RDF and OWL, and a mapping procedure for transforming WSDL descriptions into RDF form. Read about Web services.
2006-05-18: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0, a First Public Working Draft of Best Practices for XML Internationalization, and updated requirements. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Last Call comments are welcome through 30 June. Visit the Internationalization home page.
2006-05-17: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published an updated Working Draft of the RDFa Primer 1.0. RDFa expresses metadata in XHTML-compatible constructs and extensions, enabling a new world of user functionality. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web.
2006-05-16: The W3C Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL). DIAL describes data, styling, layout, and interaction independently, making Web content adaptable for a wide variety of platforms including the thousands of mobile devices in use and devices to come. Read the press release and more about device independence.
2006-05-09: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Web Services Addressing - Core and its SOAP Binding as W3C Recommendations. The core properties allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport. The binding defines their association to SOAP messages. Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page.
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W3C Chinese Office is set up in April 1st,2006, hosted at Beihang University(BUAA).![]()
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