– Battery Status Event Specification Updated
02 June 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9114
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of "Battery Status Event Specification." This specification defines a new DOM event type that provides information about the battery status of the hosting device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-battery-status-20110602/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Three Web Performance Drafts Published: Visibility, Timing Control for Script-Based Animations, Navigation Timing
02 June 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9113
– The Web Performance Working Group published three drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
A First Public Working Draft of Page Visibility, which defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications. A First Public Working Draft of Timing control for script-based animations, which defines an API web page authors can use to write script-based animations where the user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of the animation. Using this API should result in more appropriate utilization of the CPU by the browser. An update to the Candidate Recommendation for Navigation Timing, which defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
– CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 Draft Updated
31 May 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9112
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3." CSS3 Writing Modes defines CSS features to support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g., Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g., mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g., Asian scripts). Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-writing-modes-20110531/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
– DOM Level 3 Events Published as Last Call; DOM Core Draft Updated
31 May 2011 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9111
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of "DOM Level 3 Events." The DOM is a language and platform neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents. Document Object Model Events Level 3 defines a generic platform- and language-neutral event system which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each event. Comments welcome through 28 June 2011. The group also published today an updated Working Draft of "DOM Core." Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20110531/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-domcore-20110531/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
More news:
http://www.w3.org/News/archive
– Workshops
2011-09-21 (21 SEP) – 2011-09-22 (22 SEP)
A Local Focus for the Multilingual Web
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/l
imerick-cfp
Limerick, Ireland
Co-located with the 16th LRC Conference and hosted by the
University of Limerick
– W3C Blog
RDFa 1.1 distiller and validator (beta)
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/rdfa_11_distiller_and_validato
31 May 2011 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
Ensuring Accessibility Support in HTML5
http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/05/html5-lastcall-accessibility
31 May 2011 by Judy Brewer
http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/
– Upcoming Talks
2011-06-06 (6 JUN)
Introduction to Semantic Web
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0606-SemTech-Tut-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
2011 Semantic Technology Conference
http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
2011-06-07 (7 JUN)
Introduction to RDFa
http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0607-SemTech-RDFa-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
2011 Semantic Technology Conference
http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
2011-06-10 (10 JUN)
HTML5: le nouveau visage du Web
panel features Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
E1 Saison 2
http://www.e1conference.com/
La Seyne sur Mer, France
2011-06-15 (15 JUN)
The semantic web and its applications
by Eyal Sela
Guest lecture at Bar-Ilan university
Ramat-Gan, Israel
For further information contact Kagiso Mnisi at
mailto:kmnisi@csir.co.za
W3C Southern Africa Office
