Mobile Ajax: W3C and OpenAjax Alliance Joint Workshop

2007-09-25: The Workshop on Mobile Ajax co-sponsored by W3C and the OpenAjax Alliance will be held 28 September in Mountain View, CA, USA, hosted by Microsoft. Attendees will explore use cases for mobile Ajax to help shape its use in mobile Web browsers. Topics may include user experience, application development, support in today's devices and browsers, and whether needs exist for standardization and best practices. Results will be linked from the Workshop page in October. Read the media advisory and about the Mobile Web Initiative and W3C Workshops. (Photo credit: Daniel K. Appelquist. Permalink)

Last Call: XHTML Role Attribute Module

2007-10-05: The HTML Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of XHTML Role Attribute Module. With the role attribute, authors can annotate XML languages with machine-readable semantic information about the purpose of elements. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation, server-side processing and complex data description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup language based on XHTML Modularization. Visit the HTML home page. (Permalink)

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 3.0: Working Draft

2007-10-05: The Math Working Group published an updated Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0. MathML is an XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Version 3 adds features such as support for bidirectional text and elementary math. Learn more about the Math Activity. (Permalink)

Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Renewed

2007-10-04: W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) and Jo Rabin (mTLD) chair the group which is chartered to produce guidelines, checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of the Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. (Permalink)

Web Experts Gather for Fundamentos Web 2007

2007-10-03: The W3C Spain Office is pleased to present noted Web standards experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5 October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Presenters include Arthur Barstow (Nokia), Dan Brickley (Joost), Tantek Çelik (Tantek.com), Fernando Claver (PC ACTUAL), Hannah Donovan (Last.fm), Jeremy Keith (Clearleft), Eduardo Manchón Aguilar (Panoramio), Matt May (Adobe), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera), Ismael Nafría (Prisacom), George Oates (Yahoo!), Allan Sandfeld (Change Networks), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla), Doug Stamper (Microsoft), Jeffrey Veen (Google) and Tim Berners-Lee (by video link), Bert Bos and Rigo Wenning (W3C). (Photo credit: Dan Brickley. Permalink)

Policy Languages Interest Group Launched

2007-10-03: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and Renato Iannella (NICTA). The group is chartered to discuss interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and computing the results when different policy languages used together, for example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), IETF Common Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy Preferences). Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. Read about the Privacy Activity. (Permalink)

Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

2007-10-01: The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated Working Draft of Enabling Read Access for Web Resources. Sandbox restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)

W3C Talks in October

2007-10-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)