W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-06-04

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Report: Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications
on Mobile

04 June 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9467

[] W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web
Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various
technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web
applications, particularly in the mobile context.

http://www.w3.org/2012/05/mobile-web-app-state/
http://www.w3.org/2012/05/mobile-web-app-state/

A deliverable of the MobiWebApp project, this sixth edition of
the document highlights changes since February 2012, including
new deliverables from the charter of the rechartered Web
Applications Working Group (packaging format for Web
applications, Quota Management, push notifications that can
wake a sleeping app, Web Intents, fullscreen and screen-lock
APIs), playback of protected content in HTML Working Group via
Encrypted Media Extensions, progress on many other
specifications, and new links to resources on mobile
accessibility.

http://mobiwebapp.eu/
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/app-manifest/raw-file/tip/index
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/quota/raw-file/tip/Overview
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/push/raw-file/default/index
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/web-intents/raw-file/tip/spec/Overview
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/fullscreen/raw-file/tip/Overview
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/screen-orientation/raw-file/tip/Overview
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/e
ncrypted-media

The next edition of the document is scheduled for August 2012.
Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

MediaStream Processing API Note Published

31 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9466

The Audio Working Group has published a Group Note of
"MediaStream Processing API." A number of existing or proposed
features for the Web platform deal with continuous real-time
media. Many use-cases require these features to work together.
This proposal makes HTML Streams the foundation for integrated
Web media processing by creating a mixing and effects
processing API for HTML Streams. Learn more about the Rich Web
Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-streamproc-20120531/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Two Last Call Working Drafts published by the RDB2RDF Working Group

29 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9464

The RDB2RDF Working Group has published two Last Call Working
Drafts today:

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/
* A Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF. The need to
share data with collaborators motivates custodians and
users of relational databases (RDB) to expose relational
data on the Web of Data. This document defines a direct
mapping from relational data to RDF. This definition
provides extension points for refinements within and
outside of this document. Comments are welcome through 19
June.
* R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language. This document describes
R2RML, a language for expressing customized mappings from
relational databases to RDF datasets. Such mappings provide
the ability to view existing relational data in the RDF
data model, expressed in a structure and target vocabulary
of the mapping author's choice. R2RML mappings are
themselves RDF graphs and written down in Turtle syntax.
R2RML enables different types of mapping implementations.
Processors could, for example, offer a virtual SPARQL
endpoint over the mapped relational data, or generate RDF
dumps, or offer a Linked Data interface. Comments are
welcome through 19 June.

Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

HTML Media Capture Draft Published

29 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9463

The Device APIs Working Group has published a Working Draft of
"HTML Media Capture." The HTML Media Capture specification
defines HTML form extensions that facilitate users' access to
media capture capabilities of the hosting device. Learn more
about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-media-capture-20120529/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Three documents published by the Web Applications Working Group

29 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9462

The Web Applications Working Group has published three
documents today:

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* First Public Working Draft of Gamepad. The Gamepad
specification defines a low-level interface that represents
gamepad devices.
* First Public Working Draft of Pointer Lock. This
specification defines an API that provides scripted access
to raw mouse movement data while locking the target of
mouse events to a single element and removing the cursor
from view. This is an essential input mode for certain
classes of applications, especially first person
perspective 3D applications and 3D modelling software.
* Group Note of The From-Origin Header. The From-Origin
Header specification defines the From-Origin response
header -- a way for resources to declare they are
unavailable within an embedding context.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Registration Open for Mobile Web Best Practices Course in Spanish;
Early Bird Rate through 10 June

29 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9461

W3C announces registration is open for a new online training
course in Spanish on Mobile Web Best Practices: "Buenas
Prácticas en Web Móvil." Developed by the W3C/MobiWebApp team,
the Spanish version of "Mobile Web 1" will be taught by Gicela
Morales. The 6-week course begins 18 June 2012 and costs 225
EUR. However, an early bird rate of 195 EUR is available until
10 June 2012. Read the course description and enroll now for
the early bird rate. Learn more about the W3C online training
for Web developers program.

http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=23
http://www.w3devcampus.com/buenas-practicas-en-web-movil/
http://www.mobiwebapp.eu/
http://www.w3devcampus.com/gicela-morales/
http://www.w3devcampus.com/buenas-practicas-en-web-movil/
http://www.w3techcourses.com/course/view.php?id=23
http://www.w3devcampus.com/

Five documents published by the Web Applications Working Group

24 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9460

The Web Applications Working Group has published five documents
today:

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* 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 14 June.
* Last Call Working Draft of Indexed Database API.This
document defines APIs for a database of records holding
simple values and hierarchical objects. Each record
consists of a key and some value. Moreover, the database
maintains indexes over records it stores. An application
developer directly uses an API to locate records either by
their key or by using an index. A query language can be
layered on this API. An indexed database can be implemented
using a persistent B-tree data structure. Comments are
welcome through 21 June.
* First Public Working Draft of Input Method Editor API. This
specification defines an “IME API” that provides Web
applications with scripted access to an IME (input-method
editor) associated with a hosting user agent.
* First Public Working Draft of URL. This specification
defines the term URL, various algorithms for dealing with
URLs, and an API for constructing, parsing, and resolving
URLs.
* Group Note of XBL 2.0. XBL (the Xenogamous Binding
Language) describes the ability to associate elements in a
document with script, event handlers, CSS, and more complex
content models, which can be stored in another document.
This can be used to re-order and wrap content so that, for
instance, simple HTML or XHTML markup can have complex CSS
styles applied without requiring that the markup be
polluted with multiple semantically neutral div elements.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Requirements for Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0 Draft
Published

24 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9459

The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "Requirements for Internationalization
Tag Set (ITS) 2.0." This document gathers metadata categories
�" essentially items like ways to indicate whether or not
specific text should be translated, support for machine
translation, and so forth �" developed within the
MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group. The proposed metadata targets
web content (primarily HTML5) and “deep Web” content, such as
content stored in a content management system (CMS) or XML
files from which HTML pages are generated, that facilitates its
interaction with multilingual technologies and localization
processes. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its2req-20120524/
http://www.w3.org/International/

W3C Launches Indie UI Working Group

22 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9457

Today W3C Launched the new Independent User Interface (Indie
UI) Working Group that will collaborate with the Web Events WG
to develop a way for user actions to be communicated to web
applications. Indie UI will develop an intermediate layer
between device- and modality-specific events and the
functionality needed by web applications, e.g., scrolling the
view, placing focus on an object, etc. Indie UI will define a
way for different user actions (e.g., scrolling via touch
screen, via mouse wheel, or via voice commend) to be translated
into a simple event. Then web application developers can get
these events from different devices without having to recognize
how the user performed the action. Learn more from the
announcement e-mail and read about the Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012AprJun/0103
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

W3C Invites Implementations of High Resolution Time and Resource
Timing

22 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9456

The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of two
Candidate Recommendations:

http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
* High Resolution Time.This specification defines a
JavaScript interface that provides the current time in
sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject
to system clock skew or adjustments.
* Resource Timing. This specification defines an interface
for web applications to access the complete timing
information for resources in a document.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Call for Review: Widget Interface Proposed Recommendation Published

22 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9455

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "Widget Interface." This specification
defines an application programming interface (API) for widgets
that provides, amongst other things, functionality for
accessing a widget's metadata and persistently storing data.
Comments are welcome through 19 June. Learn more about the Rich
Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-widgets-apis-20120522/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N) Note Published

22 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9454

The Internationalization Core Working Group has published a
Group Note of "Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)."
This document describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to
provide internationalized and localized operations using locale
and international preferences. These mechanisms can be used to
accommodate a wide variety of development models for
international usage. Learn more about the Internationalization
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/International/core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-ws-i18n-20120522/
http://www.w3.org/International/

Three drafts published by the Web Applications Working Group

22 May 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9453

The Web Applications Working Group has published three First
Public Working Drafts today:

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* Introduction to Web Components. This document is a
non-normative reference, which aims to provide an overview
of how Web Components work. It summarizes the normative
information in the respective specifications in an
easy-to-digest prose and illustration.
* Shadow DOM. This specification describes a method of
establishing and maintaining functional boundaries between
DOM subtrees and how these subtrees interact with each
other within a document tree, thus enabling better
functional encapsulation within DOM.
* The Screen Orientation API. The Screen Orientation API's
goal is to provide an interface for web applications to be
able to read the screen orientation state, to be informed
when this state changes and to be able to lock the screen
orientation to a specific state.

Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive

Workshops

* 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) �" 2012-06-13 (13 JUN)
Multilingual Web - Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT
Requirements
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/dublin-workshop/dub
lin-cfp
Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by Trinity College Dublin, with funding by the
European Commission
* 2012-06-14 (14 JUN) �" 2012-06-15 (15 JUN)
All Signs Point to the Web: W3C Workshop on Web-Based
Signage
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/signage/cfp
Tokyo (Chiba), Japan
Hosted by NTT
The Web is at a turning point with the emergence of the
Open Web Platform, the set of technologies used to create
highly interactive experiences and social apps on a broad
range of devices. W3C has helped foster the deployment of
Web technology on mobile devices and, for the past two
years, has made the convergence of Web and TV a priority
(see the Web and TV Interest Group). We now see an
opportunity to extend the Web to a new class of devices:
very large digital displays. We invite operators of
consumer electronics companies, digital signage platforms,
advertisers, browser vendors, sign owners, and others to
participate in this discussion.
* 2012-06-19 (19 JUN) �" 2012-06-20 (20 JUN)
Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data
journalism
http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/
Brussels, Belgium
Hosted by the European Commission
For many years, W3C has been a keen promoter of Open Data,
fostering a culture in which public administrations make
their data available, ideally in machine-processable
formats. Many governments have embraced the idea with
enthusiasm, setting up national data portals. As part of
the FP7-funded Crossover Project, W3C and the European
Commission are running a Workshop in June, just ahead of
the Digital Agenda Summit, to ask a simple question: what
is all the 'new' government open data being used for?

W3C Blog

* Interview: Lee Rainie on Networked Individualism
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/05/interview_lee_rainie_on_networ
30 May 2012 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
* UK Government Consultation on Open Standards
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/05/uk_government_consultation_on
29 May 2012 by Phil Archer
* Interview: IBM on the Linked Data Platform
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/05/interview_ibm_on_a_linked_data
23 May 2012 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/

Upcoming Talks

* 2012-06-04 (4 JUN)
Internationalization: An Introduction
http://www.inter-locale.com/demos/iuc35/
by Addison Phillips
Localization World
http://localizationworld.com
Paris, France
* 2012-06-04 (4 JUN)
An Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
by Richard Ishida
Localization World, Paris
http://localizationworld.com/
Paris, France
* 2012-06-04 (4 JUN)
Towards the Promised Land: Globalization Developments in
Web Standards
Localization World, Paris
http://localizationworld.com/
Paris, France
* 2012-06-05 (5 JUN)
Semantic Web and Related Work at W3C
by Ivan Herman
The 2012 Semantic Tech & Business Conference
http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm
San Francisco, USA
* 2012-06-06 (6 JUN)
Mobile Web Apps and HTML5
by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Taller sobre Web Móvil y HTML5
http://www.w3c.es/Eventos/2012/Taller/Barcelona/
Barcelona, Spain
* 2012-06-06 (6 JUN)
Schema.org
http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/sessionPop.cfm?conf
id=65&proposalid=4799
panel features Ivan Herman
The 2012 Semantic Tech & Business Conference
http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/index.cfm
San Francisco, USA
* 2012-06-08 (8 JUN)
A short introduction to Semantic Web technologies
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0608-Oracle-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
Oracle
Redwood City, CA, USA
* 2012-07-09 (9 JUL)
Semantic Web @ W3C
by Ivan Herman
SSSW'12 The 9th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and
the Semantic Web
http://sssw.org/2012/
Cercedilla, Spain
* 2012-07-17 (17 JUL)
Embracing Accessibility �" Go for the Carrots
keynote by Shawn Henry
PSEWEB Canada's University & College Digital Marketing
Conference
http://pseweb.ca/
Halifax, Canada

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