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2004-06-14: W3C is pleased to announce that on 15 June in
Helsinki, Ms.
Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, will present
the first
Millennium Technology Prize to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. The award is given in one
of four disciplines for "outstanding technological achievements that
directly promote people's quality of life, are based on humane values,
and encourage sustainable economic development." The ceremonies are
held in conjunction with the
Millennium Technology Conference (
Programme PDF 1.5MB) in Espoo, Finland on 13-16 June. (Photo: Sam Ogden. News archive)
2004-06-16: The summary and minutes have been published from the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents held in San Jose CA, USA on 1-2 June. All of the 43 position papers are publicly available. The workshop concluded that W3C should consider starting work on a specification that combines W3C document formats for the mobile computing market, and should produce a roadmap for future work in Web applications. W3C thanks host Adobe Systems and all 60 attendees for their valued participation. Read about Workshops and Interaction at W3C. (News archive)
2004-06-11: The Device Independence Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Content Selection for Device Independence (DISelect) 1.0. Part of a markup language supporting the creation of Web sites that can be used from diverse devices, this document provides selection between versions of materials using only modest processing power. Learn more about the W3C Device Independence Activity. (News archive)
2004-06-11: The XForms Working Group has updated the XForms 1.1 Requirements Working Group Note. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. Version 1.1 has enhancements for the XForms 1.0 framework, embraces SOAP, makes XForms authoring easier, and facilitates XForms use in other host languages. Visit the XForms home page. (News archive)
2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group has released SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism and XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) as Last Call Working Drafts. The drafts improve SOAP Version 1.2 performance. Comments are welcome through 29 June. Also published are XOP Frequently Asked Questions, the Attachment Feature which is superseded, and the completed Use Cases and Requirements. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)
2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the SOAP Resource Representation Header. Comments are welcome through 29 June. The document describes a SOAP header block that allows applications to carry a representation of a Web resource in a SOAP message. SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)
2004-06-08: The XML Protocol Working Group and the Web Services Description Working Group jointly released the First Public Working Draft of Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML. The draft describes how to indicate the media type of XML element content and the way to specify that type in XML Schema. Visit the Web services home page. (News archive)
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