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Position papers are due 10 February for the W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web to be held 9-10 March 2006, hosted by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. The "Ubiquitous Web" seeks to fulfill the potential of the Web for distributed applications that adapt to the user's needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Attendees will examine enabling technologies and consider what remains to be done to fulfill this vision.

© W3C: Dave Raggett, Yasuyuki Hirakawa

The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Last Call Working Drafts: Compound Document by Reference Framework, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. Comments are welcome through 27 January. The Web Integration Compound Document (WICD, pronounced "wicked") is a device independent Compound Document profile based on XHTML, CSS and SVG. The drafts describe behavior when single documents contain multiple formats.

© W3C: Dean Jackson

The XML Key Management Service (XKMS) Working Group has published Using XKMS with PGP as a Working Group Note. This informative note provides usage scenarios for XKMS when used with PGP, together with corresponding sample message exchanges. The note also points out open issues with PGP support in both the XKMS and XML-SIG specifications and proposes some potential solutions to these issues.

© W3C: Tommy Lindberg, José Kahan

The CSS Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Selectors. Designed to be usable in performance-critical code, selectors are patterns in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language that match to elements in HTML and XML. This specification describes the selectors in CSS1 and CSS2 and new selectors for CSS3. Comments are welcome through 16 January.

© W3C: Daniel Glazman, Tantek Çelik, Ian Hickson, Peter Linss, John Williams

The CSS Working Group has released a First Public Working Draft of the CSS3 Advanced Layout Module defining grid layout. The draft's features could be used to define visual order independent of document order, position and alignment of user interface "widgets," and page and window grids.

© W3C: Bert Bos

Position papers are due 25 January for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication to be held 15-16 March 2006, hosted by Citigroup in New York, NY, USA. Attendees will identify steps W3C can take to improve the Web's trustworthiness and security for users. Topics include site authentication, safe Web client behavior, communication with users, infrastructures for content providers, and user agent testing.

© W3C: Thomas Roessler

The World Wide Web Consortium released Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) as a W3C Recommendation. With SMIL, authors create multimedia presentations and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and text. Version 2.1 features include a new Mobile Profile and an Extended Mobile Profile with enhanced timing, layout and animation capabilities.

© W3C: Dick Bulterman, Guido Grassel, Jack Jansen, Antti Koivisto, Nabil Layaïda, Thierry Michel, Sjoerd Mullender, Daniel Zucker

The XForms Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XForms 1.1. XForms is the new generation of Web forms. Designed to refine and strengthen the XML processing platform introduced by XForms 1.0, version 1.1 embraces SOAP, facilitates XForms use in other host languages, and makes authoring easier.

© W3C: John M. Boyer

The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has released a third Last Call Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The draft allows reviewers to verify that their comments have been included. Comments will be accepted through 28 December. The SVG language delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a complete language specification and is implementable on devices large and small, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers.

© W3C: Ola Andersson, Robin Berjon, Jon Ferraiolo, Vincent Hardy, Scott Hayman, Dean Jackson, Chris Lilley, Craig Northway, Antoine Quint

Standards for Multimodal Dialogue Context will be held 12 December at the Human Communication Research Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Organized by the TALK and AMI IST research projects with support from W3C, the workshop will study interoperability needs for dialog context formats and dialog annotations. Dave Raggett and Henry Thompson of W3C present.

© W3C: TALK and AMI IST research projects