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<title>Secure Browsing Initiative Launched</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-17</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-17: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Web Security Context Working Group whose mission is to enable a secure and usable interface so Web users can make safe trust decisions on the Web. "There is much deployed and proven security technology, but we now need to connect it all the way through to the Web user," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Mary Ellen Zurko (IBM) chairs the group which is chartered to establish requirements and deliver standards for presenting essential security information to users and for ensuring the integrity of that information. Read the press release and more about the Security Activity. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item196</link>
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<title>Delivery Context Interfaces (DCI) Is a Candidate Recommendation</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-19</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-19: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Delivery Context: Interfaces (DCI) Accessing Static and Dynamic Properties to Candidate Recommendation. DCI provides access to device properties including capabilities, configuration, user preferences and environmental conditions such as remaining battery life, signal strength, ambient brightness, location, and display orientation. Comments are welcome through 31 March 2007. Read about the Device Independence Activity. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item193</link>
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<title>Mobile Web Seminar in Paris</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-18</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-18: W3C invites the public to a Mobile Web seminar that will focus on current results produced by W3C's Mobile Web Initiative on 16 November in Paris, France. Speakers include representatives of MWI sponsors such as France Telecom, Jataayu Software, MobileAware, Opera Software, and Vodafone. Entrance is free but registration is required. The 3GWeb project is a European IST Programme. Read the media advisory. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item195</link>
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<title>Web Services Policy Primer: Working Draft</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-18</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-18: The Web Services Policy Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Web Services Policy 1.5 - Primer. This introduction to the Web Services Policy language is designed for authors of policy expressions and assertions and for implementers whose software modules read and write policy expressions. Basic and advanced concepts are presented through examples. The primer can be read alongside the normative Policy Framework and Attachment specifications. Read about Web services. (News archive)</description>
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<title>File Upload: Working Draft</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-18</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-18: The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of File Upload. Applications will be able to use this API to trigger a file selection dialog with which the user can select one or more files in their local file system. It allows client-side manipulation of the content, for instance to display an image or parse an XML document from disk. The group invites comments from Web content and browser developers. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item192</link>
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<title>WebCGM 2.0 Is a Proposed Recommendation</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-17</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-17: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of WebCGM 2.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard for the interchange of 2D vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications in technical illustration, documentation, data visualization and similar fields. Version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects, adds an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. Comments are welcome through 30 November. Implementations of WebCGM 2.0 are already available. Read about WebCGM. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item188</link>
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<title>Last Call: CSS Print Profile</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-13</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-13: The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Print Profile. This subset of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language works with the XHTML-Print Recommendation for printing to low-cost devices. It satisfies print and display needs in the absence of a printer-specific driver and where variability in the formatting of the output is acceptable. An extension set provides stronger layout control for the printing of mixed text and images, tables and image collections. Comments are welcome through 20 November. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2006#item190</link>
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<title>Media Access Events: Working Draft</title>
<dc:date>2006-10-13</dc:date>
<description>2006-10-13: The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Media Access Events. This set of events and DOM APIs enable detailed monitoring of media stream buffering and initialization. The group invites review from Web content and browser developers to determine whether the specification meets the community's needs for event-driven access to streaming media. Visit the SVG home page. (News archive)</description>
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<link>http://www.w3.org/News/2005#item193</link>
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<title>Best Wishes for the New Year from W3C</title>
<description>2005-12-23: On this fifteenth birthday of the World Wide Web, W3C wishes a happy and successful 2006 to our visitors. Following through on its mission to lead the Web to its full potential, in 2005, W3C published six sets of new Web standards, opened the Indian Office, reduced Membership fees in developing countries, founded the Mobile Web Initiative, and launched eleven new groups including Rich Web Clients, Efficient XML Interchange, Rule Interchange Format and Health Care and Life Sciences. W3C thanks our Members, participants and contributors for their part in these achievements. Publications resume in January. Read About W3C. (News archive)</description>
<dc:date>2005-12-23</dc:date>
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<title>Mobile Web Best Practices Updated</title>
<description>2005-12-20: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices was published as a Working Group Note. Read about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, a joint effort by authoring tool vendors, content providers, handset manufacturers, browser vendors and mobile operators. (News archive)</description>
<dc:date>2005-12-20</dc:date>
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<title>Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web</title>
<description>2005-12-20: Position papers are due 10 February for the W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web to be held 9-10 March 2006, hosted by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. The "Ubiquitous Web" seeks to fulfill the potential of the Web for distributed applications that adapt to the user's needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Attendees will examine enabling technologies and consider what remains to be done to fulfill this vision. Read possible topics and about W3C Workshops. (News archive)</description>
<dc:date>2005-12-20</dc:date>
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