 New
Generation of the W3C Markup Validator Released
26 November 2002: W3C is pleased to
announce an upgrade to the W3C
Markup Validation Service. Changes include improved result pages,
accessibility fixes, restructured code and design, and more MathML,
XHTML and SVG support. Feedback is welcome. The announcement
names contributors and has release notes. (News archive)
W3C Welcomes
Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
25 November 2002: W3C held its semiannual
Advisory Committee Meeting on 18-20 November in Cambridge, MA, USA. W3C Member organizations
participated in two days of talks and discussion on the range of W3C Activities. If your organization
would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page. The next
Advisory Committee Meeting will be held 18-20 May 2003, colocated with
WWW2003 on 20-24 May in Budapest, Hungary. (News archive)
W3C Thanks
the W3C SysWeb Team
25 November 2002: In the past 6 months,
W3C Working Groups released a record 137 publications, 36 during 2
weeks in November. Find them linked to the index of
technical reports. W3C thanks our Webmaster Henri Fallon and the W3C SysWeb team for making
this possible. SysWeb supports the needs of the W3C Membership, the
Team and the public. Currently, they serve 680,000 Web pages and
796,000 pages of mailing list
archives on machines in the USA, Japan, and France. (News archive)
Internet
World Asia 2002 in Tokyo, Japan
25 November 2002: W3C is pleased to
co-sponsor Internet World Asia 2002 (in
Japanese) to be held 4-6 December in Tokyo, Japan. Kazuhiro Kitagawa, W3C
Device Independence Activity Lead, gives the keynote New services
based on the Semantic Web on 5 December. Registration is open.
(News archive)
Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Become W3C Proposed
Recommendations
15 November 2002: W3C is pleased to
announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
1.1 and Mobile SVG to
Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and
images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into
reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles
optimized for cellphones and pocket computers. (News archive)
Scalable
Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 Working Draft Published
15 November 2002: The SVG Working Group
has released the first public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
1.2. Potential areas of new work identified in SVG 1.2 include
integration with other XML formats, and text wrapping, printing,
streaming, painting, rendering model, and DOM enhancements. Visit the
SVG home page. (News archive)
Architecture
of the World Wide Web Working Draft Updated
15 November 2002: The W3C Technical
Architecture Group (TAG) has released an updated Working Draft, Architecture of the World Wide
Web. Comments are welcome. With technical issues organized around
identification, representation, and interaction, the document also
addresses some non-technical social issues that contribute to the
shared information space. Visit the TAG home
page. (News archive)
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