New W3C Markup Validator Unveiled

2007-08-08: W3C's most popular service just got better, prettier, faster, and smarter. The W3C Markup Validator has a new user interface and a validation engine with improved accuracy and performance. Among new features are an automatic cleanup option using HTML Tidy, and checking of HTML fragments. Driven by W3C as an open-source software project, the markup validator is made by Web professionals for Web professionals, and aims to be a major step in any Web development quality process. Read the change log for a list of all changes and new features. (Permalink)

Web Services Policy Primer and Guidelines for Authors: Working Drafts

2007-08-10: The Web Services Policy Working Group released two updated Working Drafts. The Primer introduces the policy language and policy attachment mechanisms. The Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors provide best practices for creating policy assertions. Both are companions to the Web Services Policy 1.5 Framework and Attachment specifications. Read about Web services. (Permalink)

Box Model and Advanced Layout: CSS3 Working Drafts

2007-08-09: The CSS Working Group released two updated Working Drafts for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language Level 3. The CSS basic box model describes the basic layout of textual documents in visual media. The CSS3 Advanced Layout Module defines visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of user interface widgets, and page and window grids. Visit the CSS home page. (Permalink)

Service Modeling Language (SML): Working Drafts

2007-08-07: The Service Modeling Language (SML) Working Group released the First Public Working Drafts of the Service Modeling Language, Version 1.1 and its Interchange Format. SML is used to model complex services and systems including their structure, constraints, policies and best practices. Based on XML Schema and Schematron, SML allows inter-document references and user-defined constraints. Read more about XML. (Permalink)

Distributed Web Applications: Workshop Report

2007-08-06: The report of the Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications is available. The report recommends that W3C create requirements for declarative modeling of Web applications, and a gap analysis that identifies where existing standards are insufficient. The Workshop was hosted in Dublin by MobileAware with the support of the Irish State Development Agency, Enterprise Ireland. Read about W3C Workshops and about the Ubiquitous Web. (Photo credit: Marie-Claire Forgue. Permalink)

Patent Advisory Group Recommends W3C Stop Work on Remote Events for XML (REX 1.0)

2007-08-03: A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) for the WebAPI and SVG Working Groups has published its report, which suggests that W3C stop work on Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0. W3C launched the PAG when France Telecom excluded patent claims from the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Commitment. W3C continues work on a future, differently scoped version of REX in the Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group. W3C appreciates the cooperation from the patent holder, France Telecom, in helping the PAG reach their conclusion. (Permalink)

Web Services Addressing Metadata Is a Proposed Recommendation

2007-07-31: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata to Proposed Recommendation. The specification is used to indicate support for the Web Services Addressing 1.0 mechanisms using the Web Services Policy 1.5 framework and defines how to express WS-Addressing properties in WSDL. Comments are welcome through 30 August. Read about the Web Services Addressing Working Group and about Web services. (Permalink)

W3C Talks in August

2007-07-31: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (Permalink)

• Eighteen W3C Working Group participants and staff members present at Extreme Markup Languages on 7-10 August in Montréal, Canada.
• Ivan Herman presents a tutorial at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on 31 August in Singapore.