31 October 2001: W3C is pleased to announce W3C Day at
Keio (in Japanese) to be held on 29 November at Keio University Mita
Campus in Tokyo, Japan. Team members from all three W3C host sites, INRIA,
Keio, and MIT, will participate in the event. Marie-Claire Forgue, Tatsuya Hagino, José Kahan, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Chris Lilley, and Nobuo Saito will give talks.
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 SVG 1.1 and Mobile SVG Profiles Working Drafts Published
30 October 2001: The SVG Working Group has
released two first public Working Drafts. Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1 is a modularization of the SVG language
used to build profiles. Mobile SVG
Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic defines SVG Tiny for highly
restricted mobile devices, and SVG Basic for higher level mobile devices.
SVG delivers two-dimensional graphics in XML to the Web, providing
accessible, dynamic, reusable, and extensible vector graphics, text, and
images. Comments are welcome on both drafts. Read more on the SVG home page. (News
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Amaya 5.2 Released
29 October 2001: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and
authoring tool. Version 5.2 supports generic-xml documents in browser
mode, the embed element for SVG and MathML, "Export CR/LF"
from Windows, a DOS file format, the HTTP Content-Location header, and
other new features. Download Amaya binaries
for Linux and Windows. Source code is
available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page. (News
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W3C Team Presentations in November
29 October 2001: On 1 November, Martin J. Dürst presents
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): An Overview and
Web Architecture: From URI to the Semantic Web at the 2001
Web-based Technology Standard Conference in Seoul, Korea. On 15
November, Bert Bos gives the
closing keynote at the annual
congress of the Dutch SGML/XML Users Group in Rotterdam, The
Netherlands. On 15 and 16 November, Wendy Chisholm and Charles McCathieNevile speak
at OZeWAI
2001 in Melbourne, Australia. On 20 November, Philipp Hoschka will give a
keynote titled The Future of Streaming Media on the Web at Streaming
Media Japan 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. On 21 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa presents
Device
Independence and the Semantic Web (in Japanese) at Internet
World Japan 2001 in Chiba, Japan. On 22 November, Ivan Herman presents W3C Architectural
Recommendations at the XML Belux conference in Mechelen,
Belgium. (News
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XML Events Last Call Working Draft Published
26 October 2001: The HTML Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Events.
The specification defines a module used to associate behaviors with
document-level markup for XML languages, and supports the DOM Level 2
event model. Comments
are welcome through 30 November. Visit the HTML home page. (News
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XML Information Set Becomes a W3C Recommendation
24 October 2001: The World Wide Web Consortium
today released the XML Information
Set (Infoset) as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the XML Core
Working Group as part of the XML Activity, the specification has been
reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by industry. The
Infoset defines a set of eleven types of information items in XML
documents. Read the press release
and visit the XML home page. (News
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