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<div class=Section1><pre><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>If you haven't yet heard, I'm pleased to announce that as of last Tuesday, XHTML-Print was advanced to Proposed Recommendation:</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-print-20060131/" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/PR-xhtml-print-20060131/</a></span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Achievement of Proposed Recommendation or PR status indicates that the specification is a stable technical document, has formally addressed all issues raised during the Candidate Recommendation period, and has demonstrated that each feature has at least two independent interoperable implementations.</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The review period ends Feb 28 2006.</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Should this document become a W3C Recommendation, W3C expects to issue a press release and publish testimonials in support of the document. You are encouraged to take advantage of this testimonial opportunity. In particular, if possible the W3 would like to see endorsements from printer, mobile phone, and CE vendors. For further information please contact me or Steven Pemberton <<a
href="http://us.f525.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=steven@w3.org&YY=77698&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b">steven@w3.org</a>>, HTML Working Group Chair.</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A heartfelt 'THANKS!' and 'CONGRATS!' to all who helped reach this milestone.</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This new version of XHTML-Print is inconsistent in several ways with the current CR version of CSS Print. I expect to make the necessary changes to CSS Print over the next few months, along with working on the CSS Print test suite. Let me know if you'd like to help... ;-)</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Best wishes,</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Melinda</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>PS We currently have billing on the W3C main page! ;-) Check it out... http://www.w3.org</span></font></tt></pre>
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