W3C today launches the RDF Working Group, whose mission is to update the cornerstone standard for the Semantic Web: the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The scope of work is to extend RDF to include some of the features that the... W3C Staff

The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0. EXI is a very compact, high performance XML representation that was designed to work well for a broad range of applications. It... W3C Staff

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of The Messaging API. This specification defines an API that provides access to messaging functionality in the device, including SMS, MMS and e-mail. Learn more about the Ubiquitous... W3C Staff

The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification for making dynamic, interactive Web content accessible to people with disabilities. WAI-ARIA and supporting documents are described in the... W3C Staff

The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) has published a Last Call Working Draft of Role Attribute, an XML attribute that allows the author to add semantic information to documents. Role Attribute supports WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical... W3C Staff

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of Device API Access Control Use Cases and Requirements. With the emergence of numerous new APIs in Web browsers and runtime engines, the need to control which Web... W3C Staff

W3C unveiled today an HTML5 logo, a striking visual identity for the open web platform. W3C encourages early adopters to use HTML5 and to provide feedback to the W3C HTML Working Group as part of the standardization process. Now... W3C Staff

The HTML Working Group published eight documents: Working Drafts of the HTML5 specification, the accompanying explanatory document HTML5 differences from HTML4, and the related non-normative reference HTML: The Markup Language. Working Drafts of the specifications HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata,... W3C Staff

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the WebID Incubator Group, whose mission is to further advance for full standardization the WebID protocol, an authentication protocol that uses the SSL/TLS layer for user identification by tying the client to... W3C Staff

W3C announces the Content on the Multilingual Web Workshop, to take place 4-5 April 2011 in Pisa, Italy. Workshop participants will discuss currently available best practices and standards that help content creators, localizers, language technology developers, browser makers, and... W3C Staff

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Navigation Timing. User latency is an important quality benchmark for Web Applications. While JavaScript-based mechanisms can provide comprehensive instrumentation for user latency measurements within an application, in... W3C Staff

The W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Ink Markup Language (InkML). This document describes the syntax and semantics for the Ink Markup Language, a data format for representing ink entered with an electronic pen... W3C Staff

Register for the next session of W3C's online training course: Introduction to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). The early bird rate of €124 is extended until 4 January 2011. After that, the rate is €165. Professor David Dailey of Slippery Rock... W3C Staff

The Voice Browser Working Group has published Working Drafts today of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 and State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. VoiceXML 3.0 is a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs... W3C Staff

W3C today published a number of documents from the XHTML 2 Working Group as W3C Notes: XHTML 2.0, a general-purpose markup language designed to represent documents for a wide range of purposes across the World Wide Web. XML Events 2,... W3C Staff

The XSL Working Group has published a Working Draft of Design Notes for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0. This document describes initial design notes for version 2.0 of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO). The requirements involve pagination and layout, composition, non-Western... W3C Staff

In addition to publishing Second Editions of the 1.0 versions of XML Query and XPath, the XSL and XML Query Working Groups updated Working Drafts for the next major version of the specifications, in particular: XQuery 3.0, XQueryX 3.0, and... W3C Staff

Today the XML Query and XSL Working Groups published three revised Recommendations, XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (Second Edition), XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (Second Edition) and XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) (Second Edition). XPath is a language... W3C Staff

W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Federated Social Web Incubator Group, whose mission is to investigate the core functionality and the overall technical architecture for a federated social web, provide a set of community-driven specifications and a... W3C Staff

The W3C Provenance Incubator Group has published their final report. The provenance of information is crucial to making determinations about whether information is trusted, how to integrate diverse information sources, and how to give credit to originators when reusing information.... W3C Staff