Hello,
The XHTML-Print specification has become an W3C Candidate Recommendation
Jim Bigelow, Editor
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Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:50 AM
To: w3c-ac-members at w3.org; chairs at w3.org
Cc: Philipp Hoschka; Masayasu Ishikawa
Subject: Call for Implementation: XHTML Print is a Candidate Recommendation
Dear Chairs and Advisory Committee Representatives,
W3C is pleased to announce the following W3C Candidate Recommendation:
XHTML-Print
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-xhtml-print-20040120/
The HTML Working Group requested Candidate Recommendation status on 01
November 2003:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2003OctDec/0040.html
The request summarizes the outcome of the Last Call review, which
confirmed that the specification meets the charter and requirements. The
HTML Working Group made no substantive changes to the documents as a
result of Last Call comments.
There was one unresolved comment during last call: one commentator
disagreed with the requirement to support UTF-16 as well as UTF-8. This
objection was not accepted because it would negatively impact
interoperability with processors that produce UTF-16 (since XML requires
that all processors accept both encodings), because it would give unfair
advantage to scripts that are more efficiently encoded with UTF-8, and
because it is easy to convert UTF-16 to UTF-8.
Proposed Recommendation Entrance Criteria
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In order to exit the Candidate Recommendation phase, the following
criteria must be satisfied:
1. At least two printers implement all the required features of this
specification.
2. A minimum of six months of the CR period must be elapsed to
ensure that enough time is given for providing implementation feedback.
A test suite for this specification will be created during the CR period.
The implementation report is available at:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-print-implementations/
Status of IPR
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We know of no IPR issues specifically relating to XHTML Print. Patent
disclosures relevant to this specification can be found on the Working
Group's patent disclosure page at:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2002/Disclosures
From "Status of This Document"
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"This specification is based, in large part, on a work by the same name,
XHTML(TM)-Print from the Printer Working Group (PWG), a program of the
IEEE Industry Standard and Technology Organization.
Comments are to be sent to www-html-editor at w3.org. It is inappropriate
to send discussion email to this address. Public discussion may take
place on www-html at w3.org.
This document has been produced by the W3C HTML Working Group (Members
only) as part of the W3C HTML Activity and is released as a Last Call
Working Draft with the consensus of the group. The goals of the HTML
Working Group are discussed in the HTML Working Group charter. Patent
disclosures relevant to this specification can be found on the Working
Group's patent disclosure page."
Quoting From the Specification
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XHTML-Print
W3C Candidate Recommendation 20 January 2004
This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-xhtml-print-20040120
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xhtml-print-20030729
Editors:
Jim Bigelow, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Abstract
XHTML-Print is member of the family of XHTML languages defined by the
Modularization of XHTML. It is designed to be appropriate for printing
from mobile devices to low-cost printers that might not have a full-page
buffer and that generally print from top-to-bottom and left-to-right
with the paper in a portrait orientation. XHTML-Print is also targeted
at printing in environments where it is not feasible or desirable to
install a printer-specific driver and where some variability in the
formatting of the output is acceptable.
What Candidate Recommendation Means
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Excerpted from the W3C Process Document section 7.11:
"A Candidate Recommendation is a document that W3C believes has
been widely reviewed and satisfies the Working Group's technical
requirements. W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to gather
implementation experience."
http://www.w3.org/2003/06/Process-20030618/tr.html#RecsCR
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For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director; and
Philipp Hoschka, Interaction Domain Leader; and
Masayasu Ishikawa, HTML Activity Lead;
Ivan Herman, W3C Communications Team