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      <p>W3C's Interaction Domain is responsible for developing
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         <h3 id="d7e0">Graphics Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Activity.html">Graphics Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p class="firstelement">
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/Overview" shape="rect">Graphics</a> continue to play a
critical role in everyday usage of the Web, from decorative graphics through
advertising to diagrams and interactive graphical user interfaces. Graphical
front-ends for live networked data, Web services, and visualizations of the
Semantic Web are current growth areas as is the use of graphics in industrial
control, automation, and embedded applications.</p>
            <p>The W3C Graphics Activity has worked in this area for over ten years. <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG" shape="rect">Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)</a>, the
current effort of the Activity, brings the powerful combination of interactive,
animated two-dimensional vector graphics and Extensible Markup Language (XML).
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/" shape="rect">WebCGM 2.0</a> is used mainly in
industrial and defence technical documents. Earlier work was concerned with <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/" shape="rect">Portable Network Graphics (PNG)</a> and
with <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM" shape="rect">WebCGM 1.0</a>.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/">Graphics Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Chris Lilley is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   these groups: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/">SVG Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/">SVG Interest Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e24">HTML Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity.html">HTML Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote/>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity">HTML Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Michael(tm) Smith is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   these groups: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/ig/jp/">HTML5 Japanese Interest Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/ig/ko/">HTML5 Korean Interest Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/ig/zh/">HTML5 Chinese Interest Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/HCG/">Hypertext Coordination Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e55">Internationalization Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html">Internationalization Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p style="color: red">Note: This Activity Statement covers the period from May to October 2011.</p>
            <p class="firstelement">The goal of the Internationalization (I18n)
		Activity is to ensure that W3C's formats and protocols are open to all
		of the world's languages, writing systems, character codes and local
		conventions.</p>
            <p class="firstelement">I18n advises W3C Working Groups, reviews W3C
		publications, coordinates with the Unicode Technical Committee, the
		IETF, ISO committees, and the localization industry. I18n increases
		awareness of internationalization issues via conferences, workshops,
		articles and Working Group Notes. I18n provides
		upfront input to Working Groups and reviews Last Call Working Drafts on
		a wide range of topics, including Unicode character normalization,
		international typographic requirements, script issues in text-to-speech
		implementations, internationalization and localization requirements for
		schemas, usage scenarios and requirements for the internationalization
		of Web services, implementation of international resource identifiers,
    and many more.</p>
            <p>For the curious, "I18n" is shorthand for the first, last, and 18
		middle characters in the word "Internationalization." </p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/">Internationalization Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Richard Ishida is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   these groups: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/core/">Internationalization Core Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/10/i18n-recharter/ig-charter">Internationalization (I18n) Interest Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/its/ig/">Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Interest Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e81">Math Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/Activity.html">Math Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p class="firstelement">
               <img src="Home/images/BlueCalc.png" alt="Mechanical Caculator"
                    style="float: right; max-width: 65%"/>
Mathematics is an essential aspect of science
and education. So, to realize the potential of the Web for science, it
must be possible to use mathematics on the Web. Mathematical
expressions must move seamlessly between the Web and a wide range of
environments including authoring tools, content management systems,
XML-based work flows, e-learning environments, and scientific
computing software.</p>
            <p>W3C brought together key players and major stake holders and formed
the Math Working Group. It created and maintains the Mathematical
Markup Language (MathML), a highly structured, information-rich, XML
encoding for mathematical expressions.</p>
            <p>MathML facilitates authoring and presentation of mathematical
expressions in print and on the screen, and forms the basis for
machine to machine communication of mathematics on the Web. MathML
provides two sets of tags, one for the presentation of mathematics and
the other associated with the meaning behind equations. MathML is not
designed for hand-editing; specialized tools provide the means for
typing and editing mathematical expressions.</p>
            <p>The MathML 1.0 Recommendation appeared on 7 April 1998. The latest
version, version 3.0, became a Recommendation on 21 October 2010. It
is updated for Unicode 5, includes OpenMath Content Dictionaries, and
supports right-to-left writing, such as used in some countries with
Arabic script.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/Activity">Math Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Bert Bos is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   this group: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/Math/">Math Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e103">Rich Web Client Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity.html">Rich Web Client Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p class="firstelement">The Rich Web Clients Activity contains the work within
W3C on Web Applications.</p>
            <p>With the ubiquity of Web browsers and Web document formats across a range of
platforms and devices, many developers are using the Web as an application
environment. Examples of applications built on rich Web clients include
reservation systems, online shopping or auction sites, games, multimedia
applications, calendars, maps, chat applications, weather displays, clocks,
interactive design applications, stock tickers, office document and spreadsheet
applications, currency converters, and data entry/display systems. </p>
            <p>Web client applications typically have some form of programmatic control.
They may run within the browser or within another host application. A Web
client application is typically downloaded on demand each time it is
"executed," allowing a developer to update the application for all users as
needed. Such applications are usually smaller than regular desktop applications
in terms of code size and functionality, and may have interactive rich
graphical interfaces.</p>
            <p>The work of the Web Applications (WebApps) WG covers both APIs and formats.
APIs are the assorted scripting methods that are used to build rich Web
applications, mashups, Web 2.0 sites. Standardizing APIs improves
interoperability and reduces site development costs. Formats covers certain
markup languages, including Widgets for deploying small Web applications
outside the browser, and XBL for skinning applications.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/">Rich Web Client Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Doug Schepers is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   these groups: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/">Web Performance Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/web-notifications/">Web Notification Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/">Web Events Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/ig/">Web Performance Interest Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/">Audio Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e136">Style Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/Activity.html">Style Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p>Many people are accustomed to style sheets in word-processing. W3C's
<a href="./" shape="rect">style sheets</a> offer extensive control over the
presentation of Web pages. The <em>Cascading Style Sheets</em>
(<a href="CSS" shape="rect">CSS</a>) language is widely implemented. It is playing
an important role in styling not just HTML, but also many
kinds of XML documents: <a href="../MarkUp" shape="rect">XHTML</a>, <a href="../Graphics/SVG" shape="rect">SVG</a> (<em>Scalable Vector Graphics</em>) and
<a href="../AudioVideo/" shape="rect">SMIL</a> (the <em>Synchronized Multimedia
Integration Language</em>), to name a few. It is also an important
means of adapting pages to different devices, such as mobile phones or
printers.</p>
            <p>W3C is also developing the <em>Extensible Stylesheet Language</em>
(<a href="XSL/" shape="rect">XSL</a>, see the <a href="../XML/Activity" shape="rect">XML
Activity Statement</a>). XSL applies a “style sheet” to transform
one XML-based document into another. XSL and CSS can be <a href="CSS-vs-XSL" shape="rect">combined</a>.</p>
            <p>W3C has a page on <a href="CSS/" shape="rect">CSS resources</a>, including
<a href="CSS/software#browsers" shape="rect">browsers</a>, <a href="CSS/software#editors" shape="rect">authoring
tools</a> and <a href="CSS/learning" shape="rect">tutorials.</a>
            </p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/">Style Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Bert Bos is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   this group: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members">Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e158">Synchronized Multimedia Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/Activity.html">Synchronized Multimedia Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p class="firstelement">The Synchronized Multimedia Activity designed the
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") for
choreographing multimedia presentations where audio, video, text and graphics
are combined in real time. SMIL is a W3C Recommendation that enables authors to
specify and control the precise time a sentence is spoken and make it coincide
with the display of a given image.</p>
            <p>The Synchronized Multimedia (SYMM) Working Group completed SMIL 1.0, SMIL
2.0 and SMIL 2.1 and is currently working on a new version (SMIL 3.0) which
adds the following new features through new modules:</p>
            <ul>
               <li>SMIL 3.0 smilText provides a new media type for use in SMIL
  presentations.</li>
               <li>SMIL 3.0 State provides a mechanism for the author to create more complex
    control flow than what SMIL provides through the timing and content control
    modules, without using a scripting language.</li>
               <li>SMIL 3.0 DOM describes the SMIL 3.0 DOM support. SMIL is an XML-based
    language and conforms to the (XML) DOM Core [DOM1], [DOM2]. A language
    profile may include DOM support.</li>
               <li>SMIL 3.0 External Timing defines an XML timing language that makes SMIL
    3.0 element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of other
    XML languages. Because of its similarity with external style and
    positioning descriptions in the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) language, this
    functionality has been termed SMIL Timesheets. It can be seen as a temporal
    counterpart of CSS. Whereas CSS defines the spatial layout of the document
    and formatting of the elements, SMIL Timesheets specify which elements are
    active at a certain moment and what their temporal scope is within a
    document.</li>
            </ul>
            <p>The <a href="TT/" shape="rect">Timed Text Working Group</a> is now moved to The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/" shape="rect">Video on The Web Activity</a>.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/Group/">Synchronized Multimedia Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Thierry Michel is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   this group: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/">SYMM Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e180">Video in the Web Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Activity.html">Video in the Web Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p>The goal of this activity is to make video a <q>first class citizen</q> of
the Web. Video on the Web (and this includes audio, as the two are typically
used together) has seen explosive growth, improving the richness of the user
experience but leading to challenges in content discovery, searching, indexing
and accessibility. Enabling users (from individuals to large organizations) to
put video in the Web requires that we build a solid architectural foundation
that enables people to create, navigate, search, link and distribute video,
effectively making video part of the Web instead of an extension that doesn't
take full advantage of the Web architecture. </p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/">Video in the Web Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Philippe Le Hégaret is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   these groups: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/">Media Annotations Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/">Media Fragments Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/">Timed Text Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e203">XForms Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/Forms/Activity.html">XForms Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p class="firstelement">XForms is a markup language that addresses the modern
needs of electronic forms. It is based on XML and can deliver the collected
values as an XML document. It addresses questions of authorability, usability,
accessibility, device independence, internationalization, integration into
different host languages, and reducing the need for scripting.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/Activity">XForms Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p> is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   this group: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/">Forms Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e220">Fonts Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/Fonts/Activity.html">Fonts Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p>Fonts for Web documents come from different sources: they can
already be on the reader's machine, they can be carried inside the
document (possible with <a href="../Graphics/SVG/" shape="rect">SVG,</a> e.g.), or
they can be indicated with a link and downloaded on demand. That last
possibility exists in <a href="../Style/CSS/" shape="rect">CSS</a>
and <a href="../Graphics/SVG/" shape="rect">SVG</a> under the name
of <a href="Style/CSS/current-work.html#webfonts" shape="rect">Web Fonts</a> and is
in study for <a href="../Style/XSL/" shape="rect">XSL.</a> After a keyword that
occurs in CSS it's often also called @font-face.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Fonts/">Fonts Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Chris Lilley is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   this group: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/">WebFonts Working Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
         <h3 id="d7e239">Web Testing Activity</h3>
         <p>From the introduction of the 
	<a href="http://www.w3.org/testing/Activity.html">Web Testing Activity 
        Statement</a>:</p>
         <blockquote>
            <p class="firstelement">The role of the Web Testing activity is
    to develop the testing mechanisms, outreach activities, and
    collateral materials for testing Web technologies.</p>
            <p class="firstelement">For the past 10 years, W3C has been
    developing test suites for the purpose of demonstrating
    interoperable implementations of each specification when
    requesting the Director to approve a Proposed Recommendation
    transition. For example, one of the most recent specifications,
    CSS 2.1, has a test suite of around 9000 tests. Each Working
    Group has been developing test suites and generating test
    results in their own ways. Using ad-hoc processes and testing
    methods, most of them did not attempt to reuse existing methods
    or approaches. In the past, the Mobile Web Initiative did
    produce a series of integrated test suites for the Mobile
    platform and this kind of effort needs to be generalized across
    W3C Working Groups.</p>
            <p class="firstelement">With the new wave of developments in
    the Open Web Platform, the increase diversity in devices, and
    the increase in demands for real interoperability between the
    technologies, it is important for W3C to step up its efforts
    and coordinate the energies in testing new technologies like
    HTML5, CSS3, ARIA, etc. There is a strong need for Web
    technologies to work out "out of the box" on any devices
    (Desktop, TV, mobile, tablet) and reliably in more consumer
    oriented use cases, including accessibility.</p>
            <p>The intent of the acitivty is to enable testing of the
    various facets of Web agents: rendering, scripting, animation,
    performance, user interaction, or integration with platform
    APIs, such as Accessiblity APIs.</p>
         </blockquote>
         <p>Read more on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/testing/">Web Testing Activity home page</a>.</p>
         <p>Michael(tm) Smith is the Activity Lead.</p>
         <p>The Activity includes
	   these groups: </p>
         <ul>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/testing/browser/">Browser Testing and Tools Working Group</a>
            </li>
            <li>
               <a href="http://www.w3.org/testing/ig/">Web Testing Interest Group</a>
            </li>
         </ul>
      </div>
      <h2>
         <a name="Industry" id="Industry" shape="rect">Industry
  Impact</a>
      </h2>
      <ul>
         <li>
            <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Printing.html" shape="rect">W3C: Printing and the Web</a> [<a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Printing.pdf" shape="rect">PDF</a>]</li>
      </ul>
      <hr/>
      <address>
         <a href="../People/all#plh" shape="rect">Philippe Le Hégaret</a>,
    Interaction Domain Leader<br/>
    $Date: 2012/01/13 06:00:04 $
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