W3C Public Newsletter, 2012-07-16

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team

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Four Device API Specifications Published; HTML Media Capture Last
Call

   12 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9502

   The Device APIs Working Group has published four Working
   Drafts:

   http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
     * a Last Call Working Draft of HTML Media Capture.The HTML
       Media Capture specification defines HTML form extensions
       that facilitate user access to media capture capabilities
       of the hosting device. Comments are welcome through 09
       August.
     * a First Public Working Draft of Pick Media Intent, which
       enables access to a user's media gallery from a Web
       application.
     * a First Public Working Draft of Proximity Events, which
       defines a means to receive events that correspond to a
       proximity sensor detecting the presence of a physical
       object.
     * a Working Draft of Pick Contacts Intent, which enables
       access to a user's address book service from a Web
       application.

   Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

File API Draft Published

   12 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9501

   The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "File API." Web applications should have the ability
   to manipulate as wide as possible a range of user input,
   including files that a user may wish to upload to a remote
   server or manipulate inside a rich web application. This
   specification defines the basic representations for files,
   lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and
   programmatic ways to read files. Additionally, this
   specification also defines an interface that represents "raw
   data" which can be asynchronously processed on the main thread
   of conforming user agents. The interfaces and API defined in
   this specification can be used with other interfaces and APIs
   exposed to the Open Web Platform. Learn more about the Rich Web
   Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-FileAPI-20120712/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Two JSON-LD First Drafts Published

   12 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9500

   JSON has proven to be a highly useful object serialization and
   messaging format. JSON-LD harmonizes the representation of
   Linked Data in JSON by outlining a common JSON representation
   format for expressing directed graphs; mixing both Linked Data
   and non-Linked Data in a single document. The RDF Working Group
   has published two related First Public Working Drafts:

   http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
     * JSON-LD API 1.0 outlines an API and a set of algorithms for
       transforming JSON-LD documents in order to make them easier
       to work with in programming environments like JavaScript,
       Python, and Ruby.
     * JSON-LD Syntax 1.0 outlines a common JSON representation
       format for expressing directed graphs; mixing both Linked
       Data and non-Linked Data in a single document.

   Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

W3C Invites Implementations of Role Attribute

   12 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9499

   The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) invites
   implementations of the Candidate Recommendation "Role
   Attribute," an XML attribute that allows the author to add
   semantic information to documents. Role Attribute supports
   WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical
   specification for making dynamic, interactive web content
   accessible to people with disabilities. Read the Role Attribute
   Candidate Recommendation e-mail announcement for more
   information, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-role-attribute-20120712/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012JulSep/0055
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0 Draft Published

   10 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9498

   The XSLT Working Group has published a Working Draft of "XSL
   Transformations (XSLT) Version 3.0." This specification
   defines the syntax and semantics of XSLT 3.0, a language for
   transforming XML documents into other XML documents. Learn more
   about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-xslt-30-20120710/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

XML Signature Best Practices Note Published

   10 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9497

   The XML Security Working Group has published a Group Note of
   "XML Signature Best Practices." This document collects best
   practices for implementers and users of the XML Signature
   specification. Most of these best practices are related to
   improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for
   best practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as
   signing XML that doesn't use namespaces, for example. Learn
   more about the Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-xmldsig-bestpractices-20120710/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

WebDriver Draft Published

   10 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9496

   The Browser Testing and Tools Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "WebDriver." This specification
   defines the WebDriver API, a platform-and language-neutral
   interface that allows programs or scripts to introspect into,
   and control the behaviour of, a web browser. The WebDriver API
   is primarily intended to allow developers to write tests that
   automate a browser from a separate controlling process, but may
   also be implemented in such a way as to allow in-browser
   scripts to control a browser. Learn more about the Web Testing
   Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/testing/browser/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-webdriver-20120710/
   http://www.w3.org/testing/

Last Call: Turtle

   10 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9495

   The RDF Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft
   of "Turtle." The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a
   general-purpose language for representing information in the
   Web. Comments are welcome through 15 September. This document
   defines a textual syntax for RDF called Turtle that allows an
   RDF graph to be completely written in a compact and natural
   text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and
   datatypes. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-turtle-20120710/
   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Use Cases and Exploratory Approaches for Ruby Markup Draft Published

   10 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9494

   The Internationalization Core Working Group has published the
   First Public Working Draft of "Use Cases and Exploratory
   Approaches for Ruby Markup." This document looks at a number
   of use cases involving ruby, and examines the pros and cons of
   a number of alternative approaches for meeting those use cases
   using the current HTML5 model, the XHTML Ruby Annotation model,
   and two other models. The aim is to clarify which use cases are
   supported by the existing markup models (HTML5 or XHTML), and
   where they are not, provide suggestions about how the markup
   model could be adapted to support those use cases. Learn more
   about the Internationalization Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/International/core/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-ruby-use-cases-20120710/
   http://www.w3.org/International/

Last Call: Content Security Policy 1.0

   10 July 2012 | Archive

   http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9493

   The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Last
   Call Working Draft of "Content Security Policy 1.0." This
   document defines Content Security Policy, a mechanism web
   applications can use to mitigate a broad class of content
   injection vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS).
   Content Security Policy is a declarative policy that lets the
   authors (or server administrators) of a web application
   restrict from where the application can load resources.
   Comments are welcome through 24 August. Learn more about the
   Security Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-CSP-20120710/
   http://www.w3.org/Security/

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