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- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:06:30 -0400
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2014-10-28 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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HTML5 is a W3C Recommendation
28 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4167
" " The HTML Working Group today published "HTML5" as W3C
Recommendation. This specification defines the fifth major
revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the format
used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone
of the Open Web Platform.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/
“Today we think nothing of watching video and audio natively in
the browser, and nothing of running a browser on a phone,” said
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. “We expect to be able to share
photos, shop, read the news, and look up information anywhere,
on any device. Though they remain invisible to most users,
HTML5 and the Open Web Platform are driving these growing user
expectations.”
HTML5 brings to the Web video and audio tracks without needing
plugins; programmatic access to a resolution-dependent bitmap
canvas, which is useful for rendering graphs, game graphics, or
other visual images on the fly; native support for scalable
vector graphics (SVG) and math (MathML); annotations important
for East Asian typography (Ruby); features to enable
accessibility of rich applications; and much more.
The HTML5 test suite, which includes over 100,000 tests and
continues to grow, is strengthening browser interoperability.
Learn more about the Test the Web Forward community effort.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Testing
http://testthewebforward.org/
With today’s publication of the Recommendation, software
implementers benefit from Royalty-Free licensing commitments
from over sixty companies under W3C’s Patent Policy. Enabling
implementers to use Web technology without payment of royalties
is critical to making the Web a platform for innovation.
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40318/showCommitments
Read the Press Release, testimonials from W3C Members, and
acknowledgments. For news on what’s next after HTML5, see W3C
CEO Jeff Jaffe’s blog post: Application Foundations for the
Open Web Platform. We also invite you to check out our video
Web standards for the future.
https://www.w3.org/2014/10/html5-rec.html.en
https://www.w3.org/2014/10/html5-rec.html.en#testimonials
http://www.w3.org/2014/10/html5-rec.html.en#acks
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/10/application-foundations-for-the-
open-web-platform/
http://vimeo.com/w3c/buildstandards
W3C releases Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4162
W3C released today a Positive Work Environment Framework that
includes a Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and
accompanying procedures. Both guidelines are now in effect and
govern our work environment.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/pwe/#Procedures
W3C is a growing and global community where participants from
all horizons choose to work together. Our Code of Ethics and
Professional Conduct defines a set of community principles and
promotes high standards of professional practice. It also acts
as a vehicle for better identity of the organization which
celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.
First Public Working Drafts: Activity Streams 2.0, and Activity
Vocabulary
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4159
The Social Web Working Group has published two First Public
Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/Social/WG
* Activity Streams 2.0. This specification details a model
for representing potential and completed activities using
the JSON format.
* Activity Vocabulary. This specification describes the
Activity vocabulary.
Learn more about the Social Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Social/
Canonical EXI Draft Published
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4157
The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Canonical EXI." Any EXI document is part of
a set of EXI documents that are logically equivalent within an
application context, but which vary in physical representation
based on differences permitted by the Efficient XML Interchange
(EXI) Format 1.0 (Second Edition). This specification describes
a relatively simple method for generating a physical
representation, the canonical form, of an EXI document that
accounts for the permissible changes. An example of the
applications targeted by this specification is one that needs
to guarantee non-repudiation using XML Signature yet allows
certain flexibility for intermediaries to reconstitute the
documents before they reach final destination without breaking
the signatures. Note that two documents may have differing
canonical forms yet still be equivalent in a given context
based on more elaborate application-specific equivalence rules
which is out of scope of this specification. Learn more about
the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-exi-c14n-20141023/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Resource Priorities Note Published
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4155
The Web Performance Working Group has published a Group Note of
"Resource Priorities." This specification defines a means for
site developers to programmatically give the User Agent hints
on the download priority of a resource, to allow User Agents to
more efficiently manage the order in which resources are
downloaded. This specification is no longer maintained and has
been abandoned; refer to "resource hints" instead. Learn more
about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-resource-priorities-20141023/
http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Streams API, and The Screen Orientation API Drafts Published
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4153
The Web Applications Working Group has published two Working
Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
* Streams API. WHATWG Streams API spec provides an API for
representing and handling a stream of data in JavaScript.
This W3C spec is intended to extend the WHATWG spec to meet
requirements specific to the browser environment.
* The Screen Orientation API. The Screen Orientation API
provides the ability to read the screen orientation type
and angle, to be informed when the screen orientation type
and angle, to be informed when the screen orientation state
changes, and be able to lock the screen orientation to a
specific state.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Updated Working Draft of HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text
alternatives
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4150
An updated Working Draft of "HTML5: Techniques for providing
useful text alternatives" was published today by the HTML
Working Group. This publication incorporates changes and
corrections reflecting work since October 2012, but does not
include pending bugs listed in the status section. An updated
publication including more specifics on description of complex
images and clarification of other guidance is expected in the
near future. Comments are welcome. Learn more about the HTML
Activity and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-html-alt-techniques-20141023/
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C Workshop Report: Web Cryptography Next Steps
23 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4146
W3C published today the report of the W3C Web Cryptography Next
Steps: Authentication, Hardware Tokens and Beyond workshop held
on 10-11 September, 2014, in Mountain View. Participants at the
workshop expressed unanimous support for including
standards-based access to hardware tokens in the charter of a
future W3C Working Group or re-chartering of existing groups.
Multi-factor and secure authentication are some of the driving
use-cases. The discussion over chartering will take place on
the Web Security public mailing list. W3C considers secure key
storage and access to cryptographic operations important for
the future of the Web. The fully booked Workshop was hosted by
Microsoft, and sponsored by Google and Tyfone. Learn more about
the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/report
http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-security/
https://www.w3.org/Security/
First Public Working Draft: Identifiers for WebRTC Statistics API
21 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4144
The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Identifiers for WebRTC’s Statistics API."
Audio, video, or data packets transmitted over a
peer-connection can be lost, and experience varying amounts of
network delay. A web application implementing WebRTC expects to
monitor the performance of the underlying network and media
pipeline. This document defines the APIs and statistic
identifiers used by the web application to extract metrics from
the user agent. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-webrtc-stats-20141021/
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
First Public Working Draft: Resource Hints
21 October 2014 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/4142
The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public
Working Draft of "Resource Hints." This specification defines
‘preconnect’ and ‘preload’ hints that the developer, or the
server generating or delivering the resources, can use in an
interoperable way to assist the user agent in the decision
process of which origins it should connect to, and which
resources it should fetch to improve page performance. Learn
more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-resource-hints-20141021/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
* 2014-11-20 (20 NOV) – 2014-11-21 (21 NOV)
Workshop on Privacy and User–Centric Controls
https://www.w3.org/2014/privacyws/
Berlin, Germany
Hosted by Deutsche Telekom
Participants will investigate strategies toward better
privacy protection on the Web that are effective and lead
to benefits in the near term. This includes discussing
basic privacy UI features that will, on the long run,
create a user experience that loops with user expectations.
We expect certain controls and dashboards in a car. Perhaps
we can create a similar clarity for the privacy dashboard
of our devices.
The Workshop focus will be on users: user experience, user
behavior and how we can offer controls that provide the
necessary transparency of privacy-affecting interactions.
We will also discuss how developers can meet users' privacy
needs on the Web, including what APIs are necessary for
user privacy.
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http://www.w3.org/20/
W3C invites you to a 20th Anniversary Symposium on 29 October
in Santa Clara, California. Join global strategists, business
leaders and developers for an exciting afternoon of insights
and discussion followed by a gala dinner. Register today.
http://www.w3.org/20/
http://regonline.com/w3c20
W3C Blog
* None. Read the W3C Blog Archives
http://www.w3.org/blog/
Upcoming Talks
* 2014-11-05 (5 NOV)
The Next 10 Years of Success
http://www.w3.org/2014/Talks/1105_phila_semwebpro/
by Phil Archer
SemWeb.Pro
http://www.semweb.pro/semwebpro-2014
Paris, France
* 2014-11-05 (5 NOV)
What do we want from the web?
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2014/11-05-what-do-we-want/
keynote by Steven Pemberton
Aarhus 14
http://aarhus14.jboye.com/
Aarhus, Denmark
* 2014-11-13 (13 NOV)
Content Analytics und Linked Open Data – neue Chancen auch
für Ihre Inhalte
tekom Jahrestagung 2014
http://tagungen.tekom.de/
Stuttgart, Germany
* 2014-11-14 (14 NOV)
Tools, offene Daten, Vokabulare und Anwendungsszenarien für
semi-automatische Metadatengenerierung
by Felix Sasaki
Markupforum
http://www.markupforum.de/
Stuttgart, Germany
* 2014-11-28 (28 NOV)
Licensing: where the practice really makes the difference!
panel features Phil Archer
LAPSI 2.0 Conference
http://www.lapsi-project.eu/conference-28-november-2014
Brussels, Belgium
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