http://www.lesliesikos.com/sikos.xml 2013-06-18T18:27:00Z http://phaedrus.scss.tcd.ie/CS3BC2/group1/tomcat/DublinShowcase/ 2013-06-18T18:27:00Z 2013-06-18T18:27:00Z

Assess the accessibility of web pages through simple steps

Dr. Leslie Sikos The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group Meeting & Showcase takes place in Dublin, Ireland on 17–18 Jun 2013. http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/preliminary/ 2013-06-17T18:05:00Z 2013-06-17T18:05:00Z

Assess the accessibility of web pages through simple steps

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published the first draft of Easy Checks–A First Review of Web Accessibility. http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20/mobile/ 2013-06-16T16:56:00Z 2013-06-16T16:56:00Z

How web browsers that follow UAAG benefit people with disabilities using the Web on mobile devices

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the Mobile Accessibility Examples from Implementing UAAG 2.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-longdesc-20130606/ 2013-06-15T08:11:00Z 2013-06-15T08:11:00Z

The HTML5 longdesc attribute

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the working draft of the HTML5 Image Description Extension. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-components-intro-20130606/ 2013-06-14T19:44:00Z 2013-06-14T19:44:00Z

Normative information in the respective specifications in easy-to-digest prose with illustrations

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has released the working draft of Introduction to Web Components. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-widgets-updates-20130606/ 2013-06-13T18:25:00Z 2013-06-13T18:25:00Z

A process and a document format to allow a user agent to update an installed widget package with a different version of a widget package

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the Group Note of Widget Updates. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-html-markup-20130528/ 2013-06-12T18:13:00Z 2013-06-12T18:13:00Z

The description of HTML5 that provides details to help producers of HTML content create documents that conform to the language

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the Group Note of HTML: The Markup Language (an HTML language reference). http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-html-main-element-20130528/ 2013-06-11T17:57:00Z 2013-06-11T17:57:00Z

An HTML5 element to be used for the identification of the main content area of web documents

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the Group Note “main element - an HTML5 extension specification.” http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-html5-author-20130528/ 2013-06-10T08:57:00Z 2013-06-10T08:57:00Z

2D Context for the HTML canvas element

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the Group Note of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-2dcontext2-20130528/ 2013-06-09T08:00:00Z 2013-06-09T08:00:00Z

2D Context for the HTML canvas element

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the specification of HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html5-diff-20130528/ 2013-06-08T12:24:00Z 2013-06-08T12:24:00Z

The differences between HTML 4.01, HTML5, and HTML 5.1

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the specification “Differences from HTML4.” http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html51-20130528/ 2013-06-07T17:50:00Z 2013-06-07T17:50:00Z

The 5th major version, first minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the specification of HTML 5.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-urls-in-data-20130604/ 2013-06-06T17:48:00Z 2013-06-06T17:48:00Z

Define data formats and publish the information necessary to support an application in determining which of mode is intended when it encounters a URL in data

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published the First Public Working Draft of URLs in Data Primer. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-CSP11-20130604/ 2013-06-05T17:53:00Z 2013-06-05T17:53:00Z

A policy language used to declare a set of content restrictions for web resources

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Content Security Policy 1.1. http://www.domainregistrationwebhosting.com.au/ 2013-06-04T17:56:00Z 2013-06-04T17:56:00Z

Domain Registration, Web Hosting, SSL Certificates, Email Hosting, Web Servers

Dr. Leslie Sikos Sikos Web Consulting launched a comprehensive Australian domain registration and web hosting site today at www.domainregistrationwebhosting.com.au. Check out the very competitive prices! ]]> http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-vocab-adms-20130528/ 2013-06-02T18:47:00Z 2013-06-02T18:47:00Z

A profile of DCAT, used to describe semantic assets, defined as highly reusable metadata such as XML schemata and reference data like code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, and vocabularies used for eGovernment system development

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS). http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-vocab-regorg-20130528/ 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z

A profile of the Organization Ontology for describing organizations that have gained legal entity status through a formal registration process, typically in a national or regional register

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the Registered Organization Vocabulary. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-filter-effects-20130523/ 2013-05-31T08:00:00Z 2013-05-31T08:00:00Z

Processing an element’s rendering before it is displayed in the document

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Filter Effects 1.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-regions-20130528/ 2013-05-30T18:14:00Z 2013-05-30T18:14:00Z

An advanced content flow mechanism which can be combined with CSS3 positioning schemes to position the regions where content flows

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of CSS Regions Module Level 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-exclusions-20130528/ 2013-05-29T20:02:00Z 2013-05-29T20:02:00Z

Arbitrary areas around which inline content can flow

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of CSS Exclusions Module Level 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-UISecurity-20130523/ 2013-05-28T18:00:00Z 2013-05-28T18:00:00Z

Directives for the Content Security Policy mechanism to declare a set of input protections for web resource User Interface (UI)

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Working Draft “User Interface Security Directives for Content Security Policy” has been updated by the W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-web-intents-20130523/ 2013-05-27T17:57:00Z 2013-05-27T17:57:00Z

DOM interfaces and markup used by client and service pages to create, receive, and reply to Web Intents messages

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Working Group Note of Web Intents has been updated by the W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vibration-20130523/ 2013-05-26T17:44:00Z 2013-05-26T17:44:00Z

An API to provide access to the vibration mechanism of hosting devices

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Vibration API has been updated by the W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-UAAG20-20130523/ 2013-05-25T11:10:00Z 2013-05-25T11:10:00Z

Guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification “User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0” has been updated by the W3C. https://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/ 2013-05-24T08:00:00Z 2013-05-24T08:00:00Z

Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C announced the RDF Validation Workshop to be held in Cambridge, USA on 10–11 September 2013. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xpath-functions-30-20130521/ 2013-05-23T19:45:00Z 2013-05-23T19:45:00Z

Constructor functions, operators, and functions on the datatypes defined in XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition and the datatypes defined in XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-its20-20130521/ 2013-05-22T19:53:00Z 2013-05-22T19:53:00Z

Enhanced integration of automated processing of human language into core Web technologies

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Last Call Working Draft of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/rome-workshop/rome-workshop-report/ 2013-05-21T17:47:00Z 2013-05-21T17:47:00Z

A summary of each session with links to presentation slides and minutes taken during the workshop

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the report summarizing the MultilingualWeb workshop held in Rome. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-json-ld-api-20130516/ 2013-05-20T22:09:00Z 2013-05-20T22:09:00Z

API and a set of algorithms for programmatic transformations of JSON-LD documents

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published a Last Call Working Draft of the JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-IndexedDB-20130516/ 2013-05-19T15:57:00Z 2013-05-19T15:57:00Z

APIs for a database of records holding simple values and hierarchical objects

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published a Last Call Working Draft of the Indexed Database API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-messaging-20130516/ 2013-05-18T08:00:00Z 2013-05-18T08:00:00Z

A system-level API which offers a simple interface to get access to mobile messaging services

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the First Public Working Draft of the Messaging API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-app-uri-20130516/ 2013-05-17T08:00:00Z 2013-05-17T08:00:00Z

The app: URI scheme and rules for dereferencing an app: URI, which can be used to address resources inside a package

Dr. Leslie Sikos The First Public Working Draft of The app: URI scheme has published. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-mediacapture-streams-20130516/ 2013-05-16T08:00:00Z 2013-05-16T08:00:00Z

A set of JavaScript APIs that allow local media such as audio and video to be requested from a platform

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of Media Capture and Streams has recently been updated by the W3C. http://aamas2013.cs.umn.edu/ 2013-05-06T18:05:00Z 2013-05-06T18:05:00Z

The 12th International Conference On Autonomous Agents And Multiagent Systems

Dr. Leslie Sikos The 12th International Conference On Autonomous Agents And Multiagent Systems takes place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA on 6–10 May 2013. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/ 2013-05-05T11:24:00Z 2013-05-05T11:24:00Z

Represent and interchange provenance information using widely available formats such as RDF and XML

Dr. Leslie Sikos The PROV Family of Documents is now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-selectors4-20130502/ 2013-05-04T15:51:00Z 2013-05-04T15:51:00Z

A new version of a core CSS component

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Selectors Level 4. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vcard-rdf-20130502/ 2013-05-03T08:00:00Z 2013-05-03T08:00:00Z

An ontology for describing people and organisations

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the vCard Ontology, an ontology for describing people and organisations. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-publishing-linking-20130430/ 2013-05-02T08:00:00Z 2013-05-02T08:00:00Z

Abstraction of physical media properties on the Web

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the working draft of Publishing and Linking on the Web. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-tracking-compliance-20130430/ 2013-05-01T08:00:00Z 2013-05-01T08:00:00Z

Definition of Do Not Track (DNT) preference

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently updated the specification of Tracking Compliance and Scope. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-tracking-dnt-20130430/ 2013-04-30T08:00:00Z 2013-04-30T08:00:00Z

Technical mechanisms for expressing a tracking preference via the DNT request header field in HTTP

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently updated the specification of Tracking Preference Expression (DNT). http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-xmldsig-properties-20130411/ 2013-04-24T08:00:00Z 2013-04-24T08:00:00Z

Syntax, processing rules and an associated namespace for properties to be used in XML Signatures

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of XML Signature Properties now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-xmlenc-core1-20130411/ 2013-04-23T18:49:00Z 2013-04-23T18:49:00Z

A process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-xmldsig-core1-20130411/ 2013-04-22T18:08:00Z 2013-04-22T18:08:00Z

XML digital signature processing rules and syntax

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-widgets-digsig-20130418/ 2013-04-21T08:00:00Z 2013-04-21T08:00:00Z

A profile of the XML Signature Syntax and Processing specification to allow a widget package to be digitally signed

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of XML Digital Signatures for Widgets is now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-overflow-3-20130418/ 2013-04-20T09:04:00Z 2013-04-20T09:04:00Z

New CSS features for overflow handling in visual media such as screen and paper

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the specification of CSS Overflow Module Level 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-exi-profile-20130416/ 2013-04-19T18:08:00Z 2013-04-19T18:08:00Z

A profile of the EXI 1.0 specification for devices with limited memory capacities

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-emotionml-20130416/ 2013-04-18T18:07:00Z 2013-04-18T18:07:00Z

A language for manual annotation of data, automatic recognition of emotion-related states from user behavior, and generation of emotion-related system behavior

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-media-source-20130415/ 2013-04-17T18:05:00Z 2013-04-17T18:05:00Z

Extending the HTMLMediaElement to allow JavaScript to generate media streams for playback

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Media Source Extensions. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-json-ld-api-20130411/ 2013-04-16T18:07:00Z 2013-04-16T18:07:00Z

An Application Programming Interface that can be used to transform JSON-LD documents in order to make them easier to work with in programming environments like JavaScript, Python, and Ruby

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-json-ld-20130411/ 2013-04-15T18:01:00Z 2013-04-15T18:01:00Z

A JSON-based Serialization for Linked Data

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of JSON-LD 1.0, a JSON-based serialization for Linked Data. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-its20-20130411/ 2013-04-14T08:09:00Z 2013-04-14T08:09:00Z

Integrate automated processing of human language into core Web technologies and provides metadata to foster the adoption of the multilingual Web

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-clipboard-apis-20130411/ 2013-04-13T08:12:00Z 2013-04-13T08:12:00Z

APIs for clipboard operations such as copy, cut, and paste in web applications

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Working Draft “Clipboard API and events”. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-webstorage-20130409/ 2013-04-12T18:04:00Z 2013-04-12T18:04:00Z

An API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Web Storage API is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2013/ 2013-04-11T18:12:00Z 2013-04-11T18:12:00Z

Free, Libre and Open Source tools for design, illustration, typography, layout, art, photography, publishing, cartography, animation, and video

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Libre Graphics Meeting 2013 takes place in Madrid, Spain on 10–13 April 2013. http://www.ftrai.org/socialcomnet2013/ 2013-04-10T18:04:00Z 2013-04-10T18:04:00Z

The 2013 International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services

Dr. Leslie Sikos Today is the deadline of the Call For Papers for the 2013 International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services. http://www.w3.org/2012/12/global-publisher/ 2013-04-09T18:22:00Z 2013-04-09T18:22:00Z

A W3C Workshop on Publishing using the Open Web Platform

Dr. Leslie Sikos A W3C Workshop on Publishing using the Open Web Platform has been announced to be held on 16 and 17 September in Paris, France. https://www.w3.org/2013/06/ebooks/ 2013-04-08T08:00:00Z 2013-04-08T08:00:00Z

Second W3C Workshop on Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Second W3C Workshop on Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform has been announced to be held on 4 June 2013 in Tokyo, Japan. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ime-api-20130404/ 2013-04-07T18:02:00Z 2013-04-07T18:02:00Z

An API for Web applications providing scripted access to an IME (input-method editor) associated with a hosting user agent

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Input Method Editor API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-discovery-api-20130404/ 2013-04-07T08:00:00Z 2013-04-07T08:00:00Z

A mechanism for HTML5 documents to discover and subsequently communicate with HTTP-based services advertised via common discovery protocols within the current network

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the specification of the Network Service Discovery API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-css3-values-20130404/ 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z 2013-04-06T08:00:00Z

Common CSS3 property values and units and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the CSS Values and Units Module Level 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-css3-conditional-20130404/ 2013-04-05T08:00:00Z 2013-04-05T08:00:00Z

CSS3 features for conditional processing of parts of style sheets, conditioned on capabilities of the processor or the document the style sheet is being applied to

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-grid-layout-20130402/ 2013-04-04T18:18:00Z 2013-04-04T18:18:00Z

A two-dimensional grid-based layout system for User Interface Design

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the CSS3 Grid Layout specification. http://cs.armstrong.edu/acmse2013/ 2013-04-03T20:49:00Z 2013-04-03T20:49:00Z

The 51st ACM Southeast Conference

Dr. Leslie Sikos The 51st ACM Southeast Conference takes place in Orange, CA, USA on 4–6 April 2013. http://www.ft.unicamp.br/ladc2013/ 2013-04-02T20:00:00Z 2013-04-02T20:00:00Z

Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Latin-American Symposium On Dependable Computing takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 2–5 April 2013. http://www.aicit.org/icipt/home/ 2013-04-01T13:15:00Z 2013-04-01T13:15:00Z

8th International Conference on Information Processing, Management and Intelligent Information Technology

Dr. Leslie Sikos The 8th International Conference on Information Processing, Management and Intelligent Information Technology takes place in Seoul, Korea on 1–3 April 2013. http://www.w3.org/WAI/ACT/workshop/ 2013-03-29T08:00:00Z 2013-03-29T08:00:00Z

Using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and its supporting resources in different policy settings and contexts

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C announced the Workshop on Referencing and Applying WCAG 2.0 in Different Contexts to be held in Brussels, Belgium on 23 May 2013. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-role-attribute-20130328/ 2013-03-28T08:00:00Z 2013-03-28T08:00:00Z

An attribute to support the role classification of elements

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of Role Attribute is now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xslt-xquery-serialization-30-20130328/ 2013-03-27T08:00:00Z 2013-03-27T08:00:00Z

Serialization of an instance of the data model as defined in XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.0 into a sequence of octets

Dr. Leslie Sikos The specification of XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-media-capture-20130326/ 2013-03-26T08:00:00Z 2013-03-26T08:00:00Z

An HTML5 form extension to access the media capture mechanism of a device such as a camera or microphone from a file upload control

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Last Call Working Draft of HTML Media Capture. http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/computing/conferences/IC2E2013/ 2013-03-25T18:07:00Z 2013-03-25T18:07:00Z

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering

Dr. Leslie Sikos The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering takes place in San Francisco, USA, on 25–28 March 2013. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-sparql11-overview-20130321/ 2013-03-22T18:30:00Z 2013-03-22T18:30:00Z

New standards for querying and managing data using the RDF data model

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published eleven recommendations for SPARQL 1.1 described in the updated SPARQL 1.1 Overview. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-runtime-20130321/ 2013-03-21T08:00:00Z 2013-03-21T08:00:00Z

Runtime and security model for Web Applications

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Runtime and Security Model for Web Applications. http://www.e20summit.com/ 2013-03-20T18:42:00Z 2013-03-20T18:42:00Z

Best practices on how to systematically adopt and engage the corporation with social technology and excel in new forms

Dr. Leslie Sikos The conference “Enterprise 2.0 SUMMIT: Enabling the Social Enterprise (R)Evolution” takes place in Paris on 20–21 March 2013. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-css-print-20130314/ 2013-03-19T18:31:00Z 2013-03-19T18:31:00Z

CSS support for printing to low-cost devices

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the working group note of CSS Print Profile. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-page-20130314/ 2013-03-18T20:57:00Z 2013-03-18T20:57:00Z

The page model that partitions a flow into pages

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the working draft of CSS Paged Media Module Level 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-overview-20130312/ 2013-03-17T14:35:00Z 2013-03-17T14:35:00Z

An Overview of the PROV Family of Documents

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the PROV-Overview that describes the PROV Family of Documents published as proposed recommendations. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-webdriver-20130312/ 2013-03-16T17:48:00Z 2013-03-16T17:48:00Z

A synchronous API to support automated web app testing

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published a Working Draft of WebDriver. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-variables-20130312/ 2013-03-15T08:00:00Z 2013-03-15T08:00:00Z

Cascading variables as a new primitive value type accepted by all CSS3 properties, and custom properties for defining them

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published a Working Draft of CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-dcat-20130312/ 2013-03-14T18:21:00Z 2013-03-14T18:21:00Z

An RDF vocabulary for expressing the contents of data catalogs, such as government data portals

Dr. Leslie Sikos The last call working draft of the Data Catalog Vocabulary has been published by the W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-data-cube-20130312/ 2013-03-13T20:02:00Z 2013-03-13T20:02:00Z

An RDF vocabulary for publishing multidimensional data, particularly statistical data

Dr. Leslie Sikos The last call working draft “The RDF Data Cube Vocabulary” has been published by the World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-longdesc-20130312/ 2013-03-12T08:00:00Z 2013-03-12T08:00:00Z

The longdesc attribute to provide extended descriptions for images in HTML5 documents

Dr. Leslie Sikos The HTML Image Description Extension has been published by the W3C. http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/ 2013-03-11T08:00:00Z 2013-03-11T08:00:00Z

An author’s guide to understanding and implementing Accessible Rich Internet Applications

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published an updated Working Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-mlw-metadata-us-impl-20130307/ 2013-03-10T14:29:00Z 2013-03-10T14:29:00Z

Implementation and applications of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the first public working draft of Metadata for the Multilingual Web - Usage Scenarios and Implementations. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ldp-20130307/ 2013-03-09T15:12:00Z 2013-03-09T15:12:00Z

A set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using the RDF data model

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the working draft of Linked Data Platform 1.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-contacts-manager-api-20130307/ 2013-03-08T08:00:00Z 2013-03-08T08:00:00Z

A system-level API providing a simple interface to manage user contacts

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published the first public working draft of the Contacts Manager API. http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2013/ 2013-03-07T17:56:00Z 2013-03-07T17:56:00Z

The 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Dr. Leslie Sikos The 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education takes place in Denver, CO, USA on 6–9 March 2013. http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia2/ 2013-03-06T18:23:00Z 2013-03-06T18:23:00Z

The Second International Conference on e-Technologies and Networks for Development

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Second International Conference on e-Technologies and Networks for Development takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 4–6 March 2013 as part of The world congress on Computing and Information Technology (WCIT). http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/ 2013-03-05T08:00:00Z 2013-03-05T08:00:00Z

The Second International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems

Dr. Leslie Sikos The summary of the Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform Workshop has been published. http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia1/ 2013-03-04T18:10:00Z 2013-03-04T18:10:00Z

The Second International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Second International Conference on Digital Enterprise and Information Systems (DEIS 2013) takes place in Malaysia on 4–6 March 2013 as part of The World Congress on Computing and Information Technology (WCIT). http://www.sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/Malaysia3/ 2013-03-03T08:00:00Z 2013-03-03T08:00:00Z

The Second International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Peacefare and Digital Forensic

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Second International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Peacefare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2013) takes place in Malaysia on 4–6 March 2013 as part of The World Congress on Computing and Information Technology (WCIT). http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-srcset-20130228/ 2013-03-02T15:54:00Z 2013-03-02T15:54:00Z

An HTML extension for adaptive images

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the first public working draft of the srcset attribute. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xhtml-pubid-20130228/ 2013-03-01T18:01:00Z 2013-03-01T18:01:00Z

An additional public identifier for XHTML user agents to load HTML character entity definitions

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the first public working draft of Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-EM/ 2013-02-28T18:23:00Z 2013-02-28T18:23:00Z

Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the first version of the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-respimg-usecases-20130226/ 2013-02-27T08:00:00Z 2013-02-27T08:00:00Z

Adaptive image implementation examples

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the specification “Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Responsive Images”. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-picture-element-20130226/ 2013-02-26T08:00:00Z 2013-02-26T08:00:00Z

An HTML extension for adaptive images

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Working Draft “The picture element”, the image container whose source content is determined by one or more CSS3 media queries. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-pointerevents-20130219/ 2013-02-25T21:19:00Z 2013-02-25T21:19:00Z

Events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Last Call Working Draft of Pointer Events. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-animations-20130219/ 2013-02-24T08:00:00Z 2013-02-24T08:00:00Z

Animating CSS3 property values over time using keyframes

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the Working Draft of the Animations module of CSS3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-templates-20130214/ 2013-02-23T08:41:00Z 2013-02-23T08:41:00Z

A method for declaring and manipulating inert DOM subtrees in HTML

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML Templates. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-streams-api-20130214/ 2013-02-22T08:00:00Z 2013-02-22T08:00:00Z

An API for representing binary data in web applications as a Stream object

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published the First Public Working Draft of the Streams API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-fonts-20130212/ 2013-02-20T08:00:00Z 2013-02-20T08:00:00Z

The specification of CSS3 font properties

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has updated the specification of CSS Fonts Module Level 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-html-rdfa-20130207/ 2013-02-19T08:00:00Z 2013-02-19T08:00:00Z

Support for RDFa in HTML4 and HTML5

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published a Last Call Working Draft of HTML+RDFa 1.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rif-fld-20130205/ 2013-02-18T08:00:00Z 2013-02-18T08:00:00Z

A general RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (RIF-FLD)

Dr. Leslie Sikos RIF Framework for Logic Dialects Second Edition is now a W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rif-bld-20130205/ 2013-02-17T08:36:00Z 2013-02-17T08:36:00Z

The definition of the Basic Logic Dialect (RIF-BLD), a format that allows logic rules to be exchanged between rule systems

Dr. Leslie Sikos RIF Basic Logic Dialect Second Edition is now a W3C Recommendation. http://ezinearticles.com/?Semantic-Web:-Machine-Readable,-Structured-Data-With-Meaningful-Annotations&id=7482160 2013-02-16T08:00:00Z 2013-02-16T08:00:00Z

Meaningful documents, Linked Open Data, Metadata Annotations And Syntaxes

Dr. Leslie Sikos By default, the basic structure of web documents provides the desired appearance and functionality which makes the content human-readable only. Web designers can use additional technologies to provide meaning to web documents, making them machine-readable and human-readable at the same time on the Semantic Web. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-rif-core-20130205/ 2013-02-15T08:00:00Z 2013-02-15T08:00:00Z

A base-level functionality for interchange

Dr. Leslie Sikos RIF Core Dialect Second Edition is now a W3C Recommendation. http://ezinearticles.com/?Well-Structured-HTML5-Documents&id=7480872 2013-02-14T15:01:00Z 2013-02-14T15:01:00Z

The ideal use of elements and document structuring with section, article, header, footer, nav, and aside using the proper DOM structure

Dr. Leslie Sikos HTML5, among other features, introduced new structuring elements to provide advanced semantics in modern Web documents. Regardless of the serialization used, well-structured HTML5 documents apply proper markup elements and nesting in order to create a correct and complete DOM tree. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-mediastream-recording-20130205/ 2013-02-13T08:00:00Z 2013-02-13T08:00:00Z

A recording API for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the First Public Working Draft of MediaStream Recording. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-web-alarms-20130205/ 2013-02-12T08:00:00Z 2013-02-12T08:00:00Z

A System Level API to provide access to the device alarm settings

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published the First Public Working Draft of the Web Alarms API Specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20130131/ 2013-02-11T20:35:00Z 2013-02-11T20:35:00Z

Timed Text Markup Language 1.0 Second Edition

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has recently published a Working Draft of Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 (Second Edition). http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-navigation-timing-2-20130131/ 2013-02-10T13:42:00Z 2013-02-10T13:42:00Z

A unified interface to store and retrieve high resolution performance metric data related to the navigation of web documents

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has recently published the first public working draft of Navigation Timing 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ldp-ucr-20130131/ 2013-02-09T12:22:00Z 2013-02-09T12:22:00Z

A set of user stories, use cases, scenarios and requirements for Linked Open Data using RDF

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the first public working draft of Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements. http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-entailment/ 2013-02-08T08:00:00Z 2013-02-08T08:00:00Z

The semantics of SPARQL queries under entailment regimes such as RDF Schema, OWL, or RIF

Dr. Leslie Sikos SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/ 2013-02-07T18:18:00Z 2013-02-07T18:18:00Z

A protocol defining means for conveying arbitrary SPARQL queries and update requests to a SPARQL service

Dr. Leslie Sikos SPARQL 1.1 Protocol is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/ 2013-02-06T18:16:00Z 2013-02-06T18:16:00Z

Using HTTP operations for managing a collection of RDF graphs

Dr. Leslie Sikos SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-cors-20130129/ 2013-02-05T08:00:00Z 2013-02-05T08:00:00Z

A mechanism to enable client-side cross-origin requests

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published a Candidate Recommendation of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-webaudio-usecases-20130129/ 2013-02-04T08:00:00Z 2013-02-04T08:00:00Z

A series of scenarios and a list of requirements guiding the work of the W3C Audio Working Group in its development of a web API for processing and synthesis of audio on the Web

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published a Group Note of Web Audio Processing: Use Cases and Requirements. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-media-source-20130129/ 2013-02-03T08:00:00Z 2013-02-03T08:00:00Z

An extension of HTMLMediaElement to allow JavaScript to generate media streams for playback

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently published the first public working draft of Media Source Extensions. http://ezinearticles.com/?XHTML5:-The-Zenith-Of-Markup-Languages&id=7481557 2013-02-02T07:30:00Z 2013-02-02T07:30:00Z

An overview of the most advanced markup language available today

Dr. Leslie Sikos Most web designers who use HTML5 often think that they work with the most advanced markup language available today. In fact, the HTML5 vocabulary can be used with HTML and XML serialization, and the latter one, known as XHTML5, is more advanced and precise than HTML5. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-xmldsig-properties-20130124/ 2013-02-01T18:28:00Z 2013-02-01T18:28:00Z

Proposed standard XML Signature Properties syntax and processing rules and an associated namespace for these properties

Dr. Leslie Sikos XML Signature Properties is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-xmlenc-core1-20130124/ 2013-01-31T18:31:00Z 2013-01-31T18:31:00Z

A process for encrypting data and representing the result in XML

Dr. Leslie Sikos XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-xmldsig-core1-20130124/ 2013-01-30T18:12:00Z 2013-01-30T18:12:00Z

XML digital signature processing rules and syntax

Dr. Leslie Sikos XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-touch-events-20130124/ 2013-01-29T20:11:00Z 2013-01-29T20:11:00Z

The Touch Events specification defines a set of low-level events that represent one or more points of contact with a touch-sensitive surface, and changes of those points with respect to the surface and any DOM elements displayed upon it (e.g. for touch screens) or associated with it (e.g. for drawing tablets without displays). It also addresses pen-tablet devices, such as drawing tablets, with consideration toward stylus capabilities.

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C has published a last call working draft of Touch Events version 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-indie-ui-events-20130122/ 2013-01-28T08:01:00Z 2013-01-28T08:01:00Z

Events for User Interface Independence

Dr. Leslie Sikos The first public working draft of IndieUI: Events 1.0 was recently published by the W3C. http://ezinearticles.com/?From-Progressive-Enhancement-To-Responsive-Web-Design&id=7457081 2013-01-27T11:15:00Z 2013-01-27T11:15:00Z

The Brief History Of Responsive Web Design

Dr. Leslie Sikos Modern websites should work not only on desktop computers and laptops, but also on tablet PCs and smartphones that come with a small screen, limited scrollability, etc. How do you know whether website visitors will use an iPhone, an iPad, a Samsung Galaxy S3, an HTC One X+, an HDTV, or a 27” LED monitor? Web designers can apply Responsive Web Design techniques to provide websites with maximized usability. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-webdriver-20130117/ 2013-01-26T11:18:00Z 2013-01-26T11:18:00Z

The WebDriver API that allows programs or scripts to introspect into, and control the behaviour of, web browsers

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the WebDriver specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xinclude-11-20130115/ 2013-01-25T18:04:00Z 2013-01-25T18:04:00Z

A processing model and syntax for general purpose inclusion

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-rdf11-concepts-20130115/ 2013-01-24T18:37:00Z 2013-01-24T18:37:00Z

An abstract syntax (and data model) which serves to link all RDF-based languages and specifications

Dr. Leslie Sikos RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax has recently been updated. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xquery-30-use-cases-20130108/ 2013-01-23T18:01:00Z 2013-01-23T18:01:00Z

Usage scenarios for XML Query (XQuery) 3.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently updated the XQuery 3.0 Use Cases. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xquery-30-requirements-20130108/ 2013-01-22T18:23:00Z 2013-01-22T18:23:00Z

Backward compatibility and extension requirements

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently updated the specification “XQuery 3.0 Requirements”. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xquery-update-30-20130108/ 2013-01-21T18:13:00Z 2013-01-21T18:13:00Z

An update facility to extend XQuery, the XML Query language

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently updated the specification “XQuery Update Facility 3.0”. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xpath-full-text-30-20130108/ 2013-01-20T16:45:00Z 2013-01-20T16:45:00Z

The syntax and formal semantics of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification “XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0”. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-30-20130108/ 2013-01-19T09:02:00Z 2013-01-19T09:02:00Z

Serialization of an instance of the data model as defined in XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.0 into a sequence of octets

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the revised Last Call Working Draft of XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xpath-functions-30-20130108/ 2013-01-18T18:01:00Z 2013-01-18T18:01:00Z

Constructor functions, operators, and functions on the datatypes for XML Schema and the datatypes for XQuery and XDM 3.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xqueryx-30-20130108/ 2013-01-17T08:00:00Z 2013-01-17T08:00:00Z

An XML Syntax for XQuery 3.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos XQueryX 3.0 is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xquery-30-20130108/ 2013-01-16T08:00:00Z 2013-01-16T08:00:00Z

An XML Query Language

Dr. Leslie Sikos XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language is now a W3C Candidate Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-xpath-30-20130108/ 2013-01-15T18:05:00Z 2013-01-15T18:05:00Z

An expression language that allows the processing of values conforming to the data model defined in XQuery and XPath Data Model (XDM) 3.0

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of XPath 3.0. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-webcrypto-usecases-20130108/ 2013-01-14T15:31:00Z 2013-01-14T15:31:00Z

An overview of the target use cases for a Web cryptographic API

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published use cases for the Web Cryptography API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-webcrypto-key-discovery-20130108/ 2013-01-13T14:13:00Z 2013-01-13T14:13:00Z

A JavaScript API for discovering named, origin-specific pre-provisioned cryptographic keys for use with the Web Cryptography API

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the first draft of WebCrypto Key Discovery. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-WebCryptoAPI-20130108/ 2013-01-12T07:52:00Z 2013-01-12T07:52:00Z

A JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the Web Cryptography API. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-vocab-regorg-20130108/ 2013-01-11T11:10:00Z 2013-01-11T11:10:00Z

A vocabulary for describing organizations that have gained legal entity status through a formal registration process

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published the Registered Organization Vocabulary. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-main-element-20121217/ 2013-01-10T09:15:00Z 2013-01-10T09:15:00Z

An HTML5 extension specification

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently published the first draft of the HTML5 main element specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-2dcontext2-20121217/ 2013-01-09T07:53:00Z 2013-01-09T07:53:00Z

Objects, methods and properties to draw and manipulate graphics on the HTML5 canvas

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the specification of HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2. http://youtu.be/WgL7DMiTCAY/ 2013-01-08T17:35:00Z 2013-01-08T17:35:00Z

Web Quality Assured – Standard-compliant, accessible websites with machine-readable metadata and liquid layout

Dr. Leslie Sikos http://www.sikoswebconsulting.com.au also provides free HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials as well as the latest news on Web Standards and best practices in Responsive Web Design. ]]> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html51-20121217/ 2013-01-07T08:32:00Z 2013-01-07T08:32:00Z

A vocabulary and associated APIs for the latest version of (X)HTML

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C recently published the first draft of HTML 5.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ttml10-sdp-us-20130103/ 2013-01-06T15:18:00Z 2013-01-06T15:18:00Z

A profile of TTML for internet delivery of Captions originated in the United States

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css3-cascade-20130103/ 2013-01-05T07:51:00Z 2013-01-05T07:51:00Z

A detailed description of cascading and inheritance of CSS rules

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C updated the Cascading and Inheritance Module of CSS3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-text-decor-3-20130103/ 2013-01-04T08:47:00Z 2013-01-04T08:47:00Z

CSS3 features for text decoration such as underlines, text shadows, and emphasis marks

Dr. Leslie Sikos The W3C published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-role-attribute-20121213/ 2013-01-03T07:31:00Z 2013-01-03T07:31:00Z

An attribute to support the role classification of elements

Dr. Leslie Sikos Role Attribute 1.0 is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-selectors-api-20121213/ 2013-01-02T09:04:00Z 2013-01-02T09:04:00Z

Methods for retrieving element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors

Dr. Leslie Sikos Selectors API is now a W3C Proposed Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-conditional-20121213/ 2013-01-01T14:49:00Z 2013-01-01T14:49:00Z

CSS features for conditional processing of style sheet portions depending on the capabilities of the processor or the document to which the style sheet is being applied

Dr. Leslie Sikos The Conditional Rules Module of CSS3 has recently been updated by the W3C.