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W3C Webinar: Discovery in Distributed Multimodal Interaction

17 September 2013 | Archive

The W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group (MMI-WG) is pleased to announce the second webinar on "Discovery in Distributed Multimodal Interaction", to be held on September 24, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Prior to this second webinar, the MMI-WG held the W3C Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development on July 22-23 in New York Metropolitan Area, US, and identified that distributed/dynamic applications depend on the ability of devices and environments to find each other and learn what modalities they support. Therefore this second webinar will focus on the topic of device/service discovery to handle Modality Components of the MMI Architecture dynamically.

The discussion during the webinar will interest anyone who wants to take advantage of the dramatic increase in new interaction modes, whether for health care, financial services, broadcasting, automotive, gaming, or consumer devices.

Several experts from the industry and analyst communities will share their experiences and views on the explosive growth of opportunities for the development of applications that provide enhanced multimodal user-experiences. Read more and register for the webinar. Learn more about Multimodal Interaction at W3C.

New Tracking Protection Working Group Chairs

18 September 2013 | Archive

Today W3C appointed two new Chairs to the Tracking Protection Working Group: Justin Brookman and Carl Cargill. They join continuing co-Chair Matthias Schunter. The Working Group updated two draft DNT specifications this week. Matthias Schunter announced this week a stable plan for reaching Last Call. Learn more about the Tracking Protection Working Group.

Updated Drafts of Tracking Preference Expression (DNT), and Tracking Compliance and Scope

13 September 2013 | Archive

The Tracking Protection Working Group has updated two Working Drafts:

  • Tracking Preference Expression (DNT). This specification defines the technical mechanisms for expressing a tracking preference via the DNT request header field in HTTP, via an HTML DOM property readable by embedded scripts, and via properties accessible to various user agent plug-in or extension APIs. It also defines mechanisms for sites to signal whether and how they honor this preference, both in the form of a machine-readable tracking status resource at a well-known location and via a "Tk" response header field, and a mechanism for allowing the user to approve exceptions to DNT as desired.
  • Tracking Compliance and Scope. This specification defines the meaning of a Do Not Track (DNT) preference and sets out practices for websites to comply with this preference.

Learn more about the Privacy Activity.

Last Call: Web Notifications

12 September 2013 | Archive

The Web Notification Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Web Notifications. Web notifications defines an API for end-user notifications. A notification allows alerting the user outside the context of a web page of an occurrence, such as the delivery of email. Comments are welcome through 24 October. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Last Call: File API

12 September 2013 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of File API. This specification provides an API for representing file objects in web applications, as well as programmatically selecting them and accessing their data. It also defines objects to be used within threaded web applications for the synchronous reading of files. Comments are welcome through 24 October. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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