Proposal to Republish Widget related specifications as Obsolete Recommendations (Wide Review until 2018-09-27)

Hello,

W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received a proposal to republish 
the following W3C Recommendations as Obsolete Recommendations:

   Widget Interface
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-widgets-apis-20131031/

   XML Digital Signatures for Widgets
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-widgets-digsig-20130418/

   Packaged Web Apps (Widgets) - Packaging and XML Configuration (Second 
Edition)
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-widgets-20121127/

   Widget Access Request Policy
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-widgets-access-20120207/

   The 'view-mode' Media Feature
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-view-mode-20120619/

The following text to be added to the Status of This Document is part of 
this proposal to obsolete:

[[
This specification is obsolete and should no longer be used as a basis 
for implementation.

The Widget specifications became W3C Recommendations in 2012-2013. They 
were designed to enable interactive single purpose application for 
displaying and/or updating local data or data on the Web, packaged in a 
way to allow a single download and installation on a user's machine or 
mobile device.

Since 2013, Widgets has had limited deployment and its usage has been 
reduced since then. Service Workers 
(https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/) and Web App Manifest 
(https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/) are considered to provide better 
solutions nowadays.

For purposes of the W3C Patent Policy this Obsolete Recommendation has 
the same status as an active Recommendation; it retains licensing 
commitments and remains available as a reference for old implementations 
but is no longer recommended for future implementation.
]]

As part of ensuring that the community is aware of this proposal, W3C 
invites public comments on the public-review-announce@w3.org mailing 
list [1] through 23:59, Boston time on 2018-09-27.

If you work for a W3C Member 
<https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List>, please coordinate your 
comments with your Advisory Committee Representative. For example, you 
may wish to make public comments and have your Advisory Committee 
Representative refer to it from his or her formal review comments.

This Call for review follows section 6.9 "Declaring a W3C Recommendation 
Rescinded, Obsolete or Superseded" of the W3C Process Document:
     https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#rec-rescind

and section 6.2.3.1 "Wide Review" of the W3C Process Document:
     https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#wide-review

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, and
Ralph Swick, Architecture and Technology Lead;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-review-announce/

Received on Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:02:14 UTC