Last Call: Mobile Web Application Best Practices

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the…

Contacts API Working Draft Published

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of Contacts API. This document defines the high-level interfaces required to provide access to a user’s unified address book, which may source address book data from several sources,…

Device API Access Control Notes Published

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published two Group Notes: Device API Access Control Requirements and Device API Privacy Requirements. The former defines requirements for controlling access to device APIs, illustrated by corresponding use cases. The latter provides…

W3C Invites Implementations of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies 1.0

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies 1.0. This document provides guidance to Content Transformation proxies as to whether and how to transform Web content. Content Transformation…

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. This document specifies VoiceXML 3.0, a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF…

Last Call: Ink Markup Language (InkML)

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Ink Markup Language (InkML). The Ink Markup Language serves as the data format for representing ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. The markup allows for…

State Chart XML (SCXML) Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state machine language that can be used in many ways. It can be used…

W3C to Examine Privacy Challenges of Advanced Web Technologies in Workshop

The broad availability of possibly sensitive data collected through location sensors and other facilities in a Web browser illustrates the broad new privacy challenges Web users face today. For example, new APIs in Web browsers running on a mobile device…

Community Invited to Discuss Augmented Reality on the Web at W3C Workshop

W3C announced today a Workshop on Augmented Reality on the Web, 15-16 June 2010 in Barcelona (Spain). Augmented reality (AR) is a long standing topic in its own right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As…

Early Bird Registration for New Mobile Web Training Course ends 23 April

W3C has updated the popular online training course “Introduction to Mobile Web Best Practices” for 2010. The first run of this updated course begins on Monday, 10 May. Early Bird registration ends this Friday, 23 April! (although full registration remains…

W3C Invites Implementations of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0

The Voice Browser Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. This document describes CCXML, or the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language. CCXML provides declarative markup to describe telephony call control. It…

New Mobile Web Training Course Open for Early Bird Registration

W3C has updated the popular online training course Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices for 2010. The first run of this updated course begins on Monday, 10 May. Early Bird registration is now open! Led by members of W3C’s…

Community Invited to Discuss Conversational Applications at Workshop

W3C announced today a Workshop on Conversational Applications — Use Cases and Requirements for New Models of Human Language to Support Mobile Conversational Systems, 18-19 June 2010 in Somerset, New Jersey (USA), Hosted by Openstream. There is currently an increasing…

Community Invited to Discuss Conversational Applications at Workshop

W3C announced today a Workshop on Conversational Applications – Use Cases and Requirements for New Models of Human Language to Support Mobile Conversational Systems, 18-19 June 2010 in Somerset, New Jersey (USA), Hosted by Openstream. There is currently an increasing…

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. This document specifies VoiceXML 3.0, a modular XML language for creating interactive media dialogs that feature synthesized speech, recognition of spoken and DTMF…

Call for Review: Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1 Proposed Recommendation

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.1. The Speech Synthesis Markup Language Specification is designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech…

Second Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers Released

The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has just released a brand new Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers. Based on the same idea of evaluating support of a number of Web technologies at a glance as in the…

Mobile Web Best Practices, Content Transformation Guidelines Advance; W3C Seeks Implementation and Review

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Mobile Web Application Best Practices. The goal of this document is to aid the development of rich and dynamic mobile Web applications. It collects the most…

Comments Welcome on First Draft of The System Information API

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of The System Information API. This specification defines an API to provide Web applications with access to various properties of the system which they are running…

Method for Writing Testable Conformance Requirements Published as Working Group Note

The Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites Working Group has published the First Public Working Group Note of A Method for Writing Testable Conformance Requirements. This document presents a method for writing, marking-up, and analyzing conformance requirements in technical specifications that…

Use Cases for Possible Future EMMA Features Note Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Group Note of Use Cases for Possible Future EMMA Features. Since EMMA 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation, a number of new possible use cases for the EMMA language have emerged, e.g., multimodal…

W3C Outlines Roadmap for Realizing Web for Social Development

W3C today outlines a roadmap for extending the Web to rural and underprivileged communities in developing countries. The Mobile Web for Social Development (MW4D) Roadmap examines the challenges to deploying and accessing development-oriented services and surveys the technology landscape for…

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0 Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft of Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 3.0. The primary goal of this document is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to interactive voice response applications. VoiceXML…

Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture) Working Draft Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces (MMI Architecture), which defines a general and flexible framework providing interoperability among modality-specific components from different vendors – for example, speech recognition from one…

First Draft of Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap Published

The Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group has published a Group Note of Mobile Web for Social Development Roadmap. This document describes some of the current challenges of deploying development-oriented services on mobile phones. It suggests the most…

State Chart XML (SCXML) Working Draft Published

The Voice Browser Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. SCXML is a general-purpose event-based state machine language that may be used in a number of ways, including…

First Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 Published

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. EmotionML provides representations of emotions and related states for technological applications. The aim of this draft is to strike a balance…

Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 Note Published

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Group Note of Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. This document supplements W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 [MWBP] by providing additional evaluations of conformance to Best…

Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 Note Published

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has published a Group Note of Extended Guidelines for Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. This document supplements W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 [MWBP] by providing additional evaluations of conformance to Best…

Device APIs Requirements Note Published

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a First Draft of a Group Note of Device APIs Requirements. These are the requirements intended to be met in the development of client-side APIs that enable the creation of…

Device APIs Requirements Note Published

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a First Draft of a Group Note of Device APIs Requirements. These are the requirements intended to be met in the development of client-side APIs that enable the creation of…