W3C Public Newsletter, 2015-11-30

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Call for Review: Web Storage (Second Edition) Proposed Recommendation

   26 November 2015
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5178>

   The Web Platform Working Group has published a Proposed
   Recommendation of "Web Storage (Second Edition)." This
   specification defines an API for persistent data storage of
   key-value pair data in Web clients, and introduces two related
   mechanisms, similar to HTTP session cookies, for storing
   name-value pairs on the client side. Comments are welcome
   through 08 January.

   </WebPlatform/WG/>
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/PR-webstorage-20151126/>

Fingerprinting Guidance for Web Specification Authors (Draft) Note
Published

   24 November 2015
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5167>

   The Privacy Interest Group has published a Group Note of
   "Fingerprinting Guidance for Web Specification Authors (Draft)"
   . Exposure of settings and characteristics of browsers can
   impact user privacy by allowing for browser fingerprinting.
   This document defines different types of fingerprinting,
   considers distinct levels of mitigation for the related privacy
   risks and provides guidance for Web specification authors on
   how to balance these concerns when designing new Web features.

   <http://www.w3.org/Privacy/>
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-fingerprinting-guidance-2015112
   4/>

Web Platform Working Group Updates Web App Manifest and Selection API

   24 November 2015
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5173>

   The Web Platform Working Group has published two Working
   Drafts:

   <http://www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG/>
     * Web App Manifest: This specification defines a JSON-based
       manifest that provides developers with a centralized place
       to put metadata associated with a web application. This
       includes, but is not limited to, the web application’s
       name, links to icons, as well as the preferred URL to open
       when a user launches the web application. The manifest also
       allows developers to declare a default orientation for
       their web application, as well as providing the ability to
       set the display mode for the application (e.g., in
       fullscreen). Additionally, the manifest allows a developer
       to “scope” a web application to a URL. This restricts the
       URLs to which the manifest is applied and provides a means
       to “deep link” into a web application from other
       applications.
     * Selection API: This document is a preliminary draft of a
       specification for the Selection API and selection related
       functionality. It replaces a couple of old sections of the
       HTML specification, the selection part of the old DOM Range
       specification.

XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0 is a W3C Recommendation

   24 November 2015
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5169>

   The XQuery WG and XSLT WG have published a W3C Recommendation
   of "XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0." This document defines the
   syntax and formal semantics of XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0,
   which is a language that extends XQuery 3.0 (XQuery 3.0: An XML
   Query Language) and XPath 3.0 (XML Path Language (XPath) 3.0)
   with full-text search capabilities.

   <http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/>
   <http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/>
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-xpath-full-text-30-20151124/>

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Workshops

W3C Blog

     * New Draft for Portable Web Publications has been Published
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2015/11/new-draft-for-portable-web
       -publications-has-been-published/>
       30 November 2015 by Ivan Herman
       <http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/>

Upcoming Talks

     * 2015-12-04 (4 DEC)
       Multimodal Interaction Standards at the World Wide Web
       Consortium
       by Deborah Dahl
       Linguistic Data Consortium Institute Seminar Series
       <https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/communications/ldc-institute>
       Philadelphia, USA
     * 2015-12-10 (10 DEC)
       W3C Developers
       by Guillaume Baudusseau
       /dev/var
       <http://devvar.org/devvar12>
       Toulon, France

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