Month: April 2013

Who is W3C to you?

As W3C nears its 20th anniversary in 2014, it is conducting a research project. You are invited to complete their first public survey about the W3C brand. Your responses will help guide where the organization directs its energies as it evolves the W3C brand. The survey, open through 5 May 2013, should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Participants who complete the survey may enter to win an Apple iPad mini. This survey is confidential. W3C will receive only anonymized data. Please see the survey for the complete privacy policy.

Online Training from the W3C

The W3C offers online training for Web developers via its W3DevCampus. Registration is open for a new session of the HTML5 training  course. Experienced trainer Michel Buffa will cover the  techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. Topics include video, animations, forms, and APIs to create location-based services, and offline applications. Training starts 3 June and lasts six weeks; students receive a certificate upon course completion. Register before May 6 to benefit from the early bird rate.

Registration is also open for a new session of the W3C mobile Web best practices training course, to start on 13 May 2013. In this course, you will learn how to “mobilize” pages and deliver a good Web experience on mobile devices. This 6-week online training course, taught by Frances de Waal, let you study step by step and at your own pace (the course effort is about 6 hours a week). The registration fee is 245€ (approx. 318US$). Enroll soon to become a mobile Web expert and learn more about W3DevCampus, the W3C online training for Web developers.

There have been an armful of advancements along the trail to W3C Recommendation across the various working groups. During this time, the W3C also published three workshop reports addressing big issues to the web and its denizens. Details below.

New Recommendations

The Web Applications Working Group published XML Digital Signatures for Widgets.

The XML Security Working Group published XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, and XML Signature Properties.

The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published Role Attribute 1.0, which supports ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications).

The Web Applications Working Group has published Selectors API Level 1.

A joint effort of members of the Business Rules, Semantic Web, and Logic Programming communities has published the Second Edition of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF).

RIF Core Dialect (Second Edition), RIF Basic Logic Dialect (Second Edition), RIF Production Rule Dialect (Second Edition), RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (Second Edition), RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 (Second Edition), and RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility (Second Edition).

New Proposed Recommendations

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group published Emotion Markup Language

(EmotionML) 1.0

The Web Applications Working Group published Web Storage.

The Web Performance Working Group has published Page Visibility.

The SPARQL Working Group has published  SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes, SPARQL 1.1 Protocol, and SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol.

New Candidate Recommendations

The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group published the EXI Profile specification.

The CSS Working Group published CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3.

The XML Query and XSLT Working Groups published XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0.

The RDF Working Group has published Turtle – A Terse RDF Triple Language.

he Web Application Security Working Group and the Web Applications Working Group published  Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

Workshop Reports

W3C Workshop Report on Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform

W3C Workshop Report on Do Not Track and Beyond

W3C Workshop Report on Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile

W3C member discounts

20% off registration for Semantic Technology & Business Conference, 2-5 June, San Francisco, USA http://semtechbizsf2013.semanticweb.com/

50% off registration for Tizen Developer Conference,   22-24 May 2013, San Francisco, USA https://www.tizen.org/events/tizen-developer-conference/2013