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W3C Workshop: Identity in the Browser
21 March 2011
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The Web is now critical infrastructure and, as such, requires mechanisms that foster trust. For critical enterprise activity, effective government engagement, and
sensitive social information accessed over the Web, a higher level of
identity assurance, privacy protection, and security is required, and
client-side technologies like browsers have an important role to play. There is a pressing need for trustworthy, widely-applicable digital identity management. W3C is therefore organizing a Workshop on Identity in the Browser, to take place 24-25 May 2011 in Mountain View, California, and hosted by the Mozilla Foundation. Participants will investigate strategies to facilitate the development and deployment of improved identity authentication and authorization technologies across the Web. Also included in the workshop will be explorations into the operational, policy, and legal issues that must be addressed by the solutions. Anyone may participate and there is no fee to participate. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 22 April; see additional participation requirements. To help with planning, brief "expressions of interest" are appreciated as rapidly as possible. Learn more about the Workshop on Identity in the Browser.
Last Call: Widget Packaging and Configuration
22 March 2011
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The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Widget Packaging and Configuration. This specification standardizes a packaging format and metadata for a class of software known as widgets. Unlike traditional user interface widgets (e.g., buttons, input boxes, toolbars, etc.), widgets as specified in this document are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored using technologies such as HTML5 and then packaged for distribution. Examples range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters, to complex applications that pull data from multiple sources to be "mashed-up" and presented to a user in some interesting and useful way. Comments are welcome through 01 May. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
W3C to Participate in Web Summit Bilbao
18 March 2011
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The W3C Spain Office, together with representatives from W3C Members Anoboto and CTIC; the City Council of Bilbao; the Basque Government; and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation announced this week the first Bilbao Web Summit to take place 17-18 May 2011 at the Euskalduna Conference Center in Bilbao, Spain. The Bilbao Web Summit will bring together the Web community and global leaders in business, technology, government, media, health and education sectors to discuss the future of the Web. Speakers include W3C staff and Membership, and many other organizations are participating in the conference as speakers and sponsors. The event is open to the public; learn more about
registration. Contact the Bilbao Web Summit for more information about speaking and sponsorship opportunities.
XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0; XQuery Update Facility 1.0 are W3C Recommendations
17 March 2011
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W3C published two Recommendations today: XQuery Update Facility 1.0 and XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0. The former defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility provides expressions that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model. The latter extends XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 with full-text search capabilities. The former document was published by the XML Query Working Group, the latter jointly with the XSL Working Group. Learn more about XML.
Last Call: HTML5 Web Messaging
17 March 2011
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The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of HTML5 Web Messaging. Web browsers, for security and privacy reasons, prevent documents in different domains from affecting each other; that is, cross-site scripting is disallowed. While this is an important security feature, it prevents pages from different domains from communicating even when those pages are not hostile. This specification defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents. Comments are welcome through 01 June. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
Last Call: Media Fragments URI 1.0
17 March 2011
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The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Media Fragments URI 1.0. Audio and video resources on the World Wide Web are currently treated as "foreign" objects, which can only be embedded using a plugin that is capable of decoding and interacting with the media resource. Specific media servers are generally required to provide for server-side features such as direct access to time offsets into a video without the need to retrieve the entire resource. Support for such media fragment access varies between different media formats and inhibits standard means of dealing with such content on the Web. This specification provides for a media-format independent, standard means of addressing media fragments on the Web using URIs. Comments are welcome through 10 April. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements Note Published
17 March 2011
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The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Group Note of Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements. With the emergence of numerous new APIs in Web browsers and runtime engines, the need to control which Web sites and applications can make use of these APIs increases. This document describes use cases and requirements for controlling access to these APIs. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
W3C Invites Discussion of Open Web Platform for All at WWW 2011
16 March 2011
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W3C invites all WWW2011 participants to meet at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre
(HICC) to discuss the regional and global impact of this expanding Open Web
Platform for application development. Participants have several opportunities to meet with the W3C staff, including the W3C track and a keynote by W3C Director Tim-Berners-Lee. This year's W3C track consists of two sessions: people (Accessible and Multilingual Web camp) and devices (Mobile Web Applications camp). Tim Berners-Lee's keynote titled Designing the Web for an Open Society" takes place Thursday, 31 March. The W3C track was organized with the support of the W3C India Office and the MobiWebApp EU project. Read the press release for more information.
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Talks and Appearances
2011-03-24 (24 MAR)HTML5 et les nouvelles technologies du Web by Dominique Haza #xEB;l-Massieux43.117 monthly meetingToulon,
France2011-03-31 (31 MAR)The power of Mobile Web Applications by Dominique Haza #xEB;l-MassieuxW3C Track in WWW 2011 conferenceHyderabad,
India2011-04-04 (4 APR)Multilingual Forms and Applications by Steven PembertonContent on the Multilingual WebPisa,
Italy2011-05-01 (1 MAY)Usability, accessibility and inter-operability standards for multimodal mobile healthcare and clinical trialsATA 2011: American Telemedicine Association 16th Annual Meeting and ExpositionTampa,
USA
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2011-03-27
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XML Prague 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
2011-03-28
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#x2013;
2011-04-01
( 1 APR)
WWW 2011
Hyderabad, India
2011-04-01
( 1 APR)
Web Performance Working Group
Mountain View, CA, USA Hosted by Microsoft
2011-04-04
( 4 APR)
#x2013;
2011-04-05
( 5 APR)
Content on the Multilingual Web
Pisa, Italy Hosted jointly by the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica and Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
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