W3C

Newly Formed Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group to Build on Device Independent Authoring Initiative

Seattle, Washington, 11 April, 2007 - Volantis, the world’s leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation™ solutions for the Mobile Information Age is pleased to announce that Dave Raggett, Principal Researcher at Volantis Systems has been appointed as Chair of the W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group. Dave Raggett is a W3C Fellow and has been closely involved with work on Web standards since 1992, contributing to HTML 3.2, 4.0, XHTML, MathML, XForms, and the W3C's work on voice and multimodal interaction.

The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group was formed in March 2007. The group will build upon the existing work of the former Device Independent Working Group (DIWG) with the aim of simplifying the creation of distributed Web applications involving a wide diversity of devices.