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"A new IETF working group has been formed in the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area [...] The goal of this working group is to ensure the existence of a single high-quality audio codec that is optimized for use over the Internet and that can be widely implemented and easily distributed among application developers, service operators, and end users. At present it appears
Web application development has been revolutionized by Ajax. What was once a new and flashy technology is now becoming ubiquitous. End users are coming to expect that certain interactions with a Web application will be done "with no refresh," in other words, using Ajax. The ubiquity of Ajax for users has not yet translated to client-side technologies.
"This document defines the syntax and formal semantics of XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0 which is a language that extends XQuery 1.0 [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath 2.0 [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0] with full-text search capabilities."
"This CSS Namespaces module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it also defines a syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes in namespace-qualified names..."
An update to the Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate is now available. This second release candidate is available for free download and has been issued as an automatic update to all Firefox 3.6 Beta and Release Candidate users.
"Hi Schemers, I am pleased to announce that the SCSS project has released version 0.3.2, our eighth development release. SCSS is a Scheme module for parsing, querying, and emitting style information compatible with the W3C Cascading Stylesheets recommendation. While SCSS does not itself provide any rendering functionality, it can provide style information to applications and
"Weston Ruter has created Web Forms 2, a cross-browser implementation of the WHATWG Web Forms 2.0 specification. This specification is currently a mature working draft and has been adopted by the W3C HTML Working Group to serve as a starting point for the next version of HTML. This implementation will follow the HTML 5 specification that evolves from the W3C process..."
The Python developers have published the first release candidate for Python 2.6.5, addressing nineteen issues in the Python core and over fifty library issues
