W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-06-18

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Web Notifications Draft Published

14 June 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9477

The Web Notification Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Web Notifications." Web notifications defines an API
for end-user notifications. A notification allows alerting the
user outside the context of a web page of an occurrence, such
as the delivery of email. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2010/web-notifications/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-notifications-20120614/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification Draft
Published

14 June 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9476

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
Draft of "Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events
Specification." This specification defines the Document Object
Model Events Level 3, a generic platform- and language-neutral
event system which allows registration of event handlers,
describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides
basic contextual information for each event. The Document
Object Model Events Level 3 builds on the Document Object Model
Events Level 2. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20120614/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Two Drafts Published by the CSS Working Group

13 June 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9474

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published
two Working Drafts:

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
* A Last Call Working Draft of CSS Flexible Box Layout
Module. The specification describes a CSS box model
optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout
model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in
any direction, and can "flex" their sizes, either growing
to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the
parent. Both horizontal and vertical alignment of the
children can be easily manipulated. Nesting of these boxes
(horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal)
can be used to build layouts in two dimensions Comments are
welcome through 03 July.
* The First Public Working Draft of CSS Box Alignment Module
Level 3. This module contains the features of CSS relating
to the alignment of boxes within their containers in the
various CSS box layout models: block layout, table layout,
flex layout, and grid layout. (The alignment of text and
inline-level content is defined in CSS3TEXT and
CSS3LINEBOX.) CSS is a language for describing the
rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on
screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

Learn more about the Style Activity.

http://www.w3.org/Style/

Online Symposium: Mobile Accessibility

11 June 2012 | Archive

http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9473

Registration is now open for the online symposium on mobile
accessibility to be held on 25 June 2012. The symposium is
intended for researchers and practitioners who want to explore
mobile accessibility challenges and solutions, and help develop
a roadmap for future research and development. For details and
registration, see Mobile Accessibility - Online Symposium.
Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/mobile
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

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

Workshops

* 2012-06-11 (11 JUN) ā€" 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) ā€" 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) ā€" 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: Huawei, Maxthon, Qihoo 360, UC Web, and the
Chinese Browser Perspective
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/06/interview_huawei_maxthon_qihoo
14 June 2012 by Ian Jacobs
http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/

Upcoming Talks

* 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 ā€" 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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