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From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) (jim.bigelow@hp.com)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 12:32:48 EST

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    Hello,

    The XHTML-Print specification has become an W3C Candidate Recommendation

    Jim Bigelow, Editor

    -----Original Message-----
    From: w3t-request@w3.org [mailto:w3t-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ivan
    Herman
    Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:50 AM
    To: w3c-ac-members@w3.org; chairs@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
    -----------------------------------------

    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
    -------------

    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"
    -------------------------------

    "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@w3.org. It is inappropriate
    to send discussion email to this address. Public discussion may take
    place on www-html@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
    ------------------------------

    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
    -----------------------------------

    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

    ---
    For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director; and
    Philipp Hoschka, Interaction Domain Leader; and
    Masayasu Ishikawa, HTML Activity Lead;
    Ivan Herman, W3C Communications Team
    



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