W3C: 2005-12-13: 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 ...

W3C: 2005-12-13: The World Wide Web Consortium today released Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) as a W3C Recommendation. With SMIL (pronounced "smile"), authors create multimedia presentations and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and text. Version 2.1 features ...

W3C: 2005-12-08: The W3C Web Services Addressing Working Group will hold an Interoperability Event on 17-18 January in Vancouver, BC Canada. Participants will test the Web Services Addressing family of W3C specifications. The group invites interested parties who have implemented Web Services Addressing 1.0: ...

W3C: 2005-12-07: 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 ...

W3C: 2005-12-07: 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 ...

W3C: 2005-12-06: Following the Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) W3C announces new work to extend SSML to Asian and other languages and to add speaker verification. Speaker verification is "the best biometric for securing telephone transactions and communications," ...

php.net: php|architect magazine is proud to announce php|tek 2006, an exclusive three-day conference (plus one day of exclusive in-depth seminars) dedicated to the world of PHP-driven software development. This year’s conference will take place from April 26-28, 2006, in Orlando, Florida, with April 25th set ...

W3C: 2005-11-28: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their ...

php.net: The PHP Development Team would like to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.1.1. This is a regression correction release aimed at addressing several issues introduced by PHP 5.1.0, the core changes as follows: Native date class is withdrawn to prevent namespace conflict with PEAR’s date package. ...

php.net: The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.0. Some of the key features of PHP 5.1.0 include: A complete rewrite of date handling code, with improved timezone support. Significant performance improvements compared to PHP 5.0.X. PDO extension is now enabled by default. Over 30 ...