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The goal of the Mobile Web Initiative is to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. Read about MWI and learn how to sponsor MWI.
ONCE Foundation, Spain The Spanish ONCE Foundation, and its company Fundosa Teleservicios turn the philosophy of 'design-for-all' into a practical reality: W3C technologies enable our developers to combine creativity and accessibility to build Web sites that are usable by people with and without disabilities. (Member testimonials)
2006-06-27: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of
Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Written for designers of Web
sites and content management systems, these guidelines describe how to author
Web content that works well on mobile devices. Thirty organizations
participating in the Mobile Web
Initiative achieved consensus and encourage adoption and implementation
of these guidelines to improve user experience and to achieve the goal of
"One Web." Read the press
release and testimonials. (Photo credit: Bert Bos.
News archive)
2006-06-30: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)
2006-06-28: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group. Bert Bos (W3C) is Chair. The group is chartered through 1 July 2008 to develop and maintain CSS specifications, profiles and test suites. CSS is the most common style sheet language for HTML documents and can be used with textual XML documents. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)
2006-06-28: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of a new Math Working Group to replace the Math Interest Group. Patrick Ion (Invited Expert, representing the American Mathematical Society) and Robert Miner (Design Science) will co-Chair. The group is chartered through 29 February 2008 to produce a new MathML 3.0 Recommendation, to improve and expand MathML in the areas of internationalization, accessibility, and mathematical richness. W3C Members may use this form to join the Working Group. Visit the Math home page. (News archive)
2006-06-27: Jérôme Chailloux has joined the W3C staff and management team as
the new Site Manager for W3C/ERCIM. Based in France, Jérôme brings a wealth
of experience to W3C in both technology development and management. Jérôme
was the main inventor and developer of the programming language Le-Lisp. He
served on an information technology committee for the French National
Ministry for Education, Research and Technology. Jérôme also held the
position of Chief Information Officer of the genomics company GENSET. Please
join us in welcoming Jérôme to W3C. (News archive)
2006-06-26: The WebCGM Working Group has released a First Public and Last Call Working Draft of WebCGM 2.0. WebCGM is a vector and composite vector/raster picture definition used in technical illustration, documentation and data visualization. Version 2.0 adds DOM access to WebCGM objects and an XML Companion File (XCF) for external data, and extends graphical and intelligent content. The draft incorporates discussion and feedback on the OASIS Committee Specification submitted to W3C. Comments are welcome through 30 July. Read more about WebCGM. (News archive)
2006-06-22: Attendees from countries including Austria, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden and the USA presented thirty two position papers on 9-10 March in Tokyo at the W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web. They proposed ways to standardize distributed applications that adapt to context: user preferences, device capabilities and environmental conditions. The Workshop report has been published. W3C thanks Keio University for hosting. Read the press release and about W3C Workshops. (News archive)
2006-06-21: The Web Application Formats Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of XML Binding Language (XBL) 2.0, a technology for extending the appearance and behavior of elements in Web formats such as HTML. This draft was produced from the XBL 2.0 specification developed by the Mozilla Foundation and has now moved to the W3C Recommendation Track. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (News archive)
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