10 September 2002: In collaboration with
W3C, NIST is holding a workshop on Web usability in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, USA (near Washington, DC) on 4-5 November. Participants will
discuss the usability of W3C specifications, how they affect usability
of software based on them, and how to improve the overall usability of
the Web. Position papers are due 20 September. Please refer to the workshop page for
details. (News archive)
 HLink
Working Draft Published
13 September 2002: The HTML Working Group
has published the first public Working Draft of HLink. The draft gives the XHTML
Family the ability to specify which attributes represent hyperlinks,
and how those hyperlinks should be traversed. Comments are welcome.
Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)
W3C Workshop
on the Future of P3P Announced
13 September 2002: Registration is open
through 29 October for the W3C
Workshop on the Future of P3P to be held in Dulles, VA, USA on
12-13 November 2002. Participants will discuss Platform for Privacy
Preferences (P3P) technology and policy. Position papers are due 30
September. Visit the P3P home page. (News archive)
Amaya 6.3
Released
9 September 2002: Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. New features in version 6.3 include control
over whether images are loaded; new preference options; more SVG,
MathML, and Unicode support; and support for annotations described with
Dublin Core 1.1. Download Amaya
binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are
interested in annotations, visit the Annotea
home page. (News
archive)
Internationalization Activity Renewed
6 September 2002: W3C is pleased to
announce the renewal of the Internationalization Activity through
August 2004. In keeping with W3C's
goals, the Internationalization Activity makes it easy to use W3C
technology worldwide, with different languages, scripts, and cultures.
Visit the Internationalization home page.
(News archive)
Namespaces
1.1 Last Call Published
5 September 2002: The XML Core Working
Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Namespaces in XML 1.1.
Identified by IRI references, namespaces qualify element and attribute
names in XML documents. Version 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and
provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Comments are welcome
through 28 September. Read about the XML Activity.
(News archive)
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