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HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to Interoperability Testing and
Performance
17 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9667
" " W3C published today the complete definition of the "HTML5"
and "Canvas 2D" specifications. Though not yet W3C standards,
these specifications are now feature complete, meaning
businesses and developers have a stable target for
implementation and planning. "As of today, businesses know what
they can rely on for HTML5 in the coming years, and what their
customers will demand," said Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. HTML5 is the
cornerstone of the Open Web Platform, a full programming
environment for cross-platform applications with access to
device capabilities; video and animations; graphics; style,
typography, and other tools for digital publishing; extensive
network capabilities; and more. Read the full press release and
W3C Member testimonials .
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-2dcontext-20121217/
http://www.w3.org/standards/
http://www.w3.org/2012/12/html5-cr
To reduce browser fragmentation and extend implementations to
the full range of tools that consume and produce HTML, W3C now
embarks on the stage of W3C standardization devoted to
interoperability and testing. W3C is on schedule to finalize
the HTML5 standard in 2014. In parallel, the W3C community will
continue its work on next generation HTML features, including
extensions to complement built-in HTML5 accessibility,
responsive images, and adaptive streaming.
http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan
The HTML Working Group also published first drafts of "HTML
5.1," "HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2," and "main element,"
providing an early view of the next round of standardization.
Learn more About HTML.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html51-20121217/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-2dcontext2-20121217/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-main-element-20121217/
http://www.w3.org/html/
High Resolution Time, and Navigation Timing are W3C Recommendations
17 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9668
The Web Performance Working Group has published two W3C
Recommendations today.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
* Navigation Timing. This specification defines an interface
for web applications to access timing information related
to navigation and elements.
* High Resolution Time. This specification defines a
JavaScript interface that provides the current time in
sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject
to system clock skew or adjustments.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT: Updated Draft Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9666
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG
WG) today published an updated Working Draft of "Guidance on
Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications
Technologies (WCAG2ICT)." It is a draft of an informative
(that is, not normative) W3C Working Group Note that will
clarify how "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0"
can be applied to non-Web ICT. Please see important information
in the Call for Review e-mail. Comments are welcome through 15
February 2013. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI).
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-wcag2ict-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012OctDec/0203
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
WOFF File Format 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9665
The WebFonts Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation
of "WOFF File Format 1.0." This document specifies the WOFF
font packaging format. This format was designed to provide
lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of font data,
suitable for use with CSS @font-face rules. Any properly
licensed TrueType/OpenType/Open Font Format file can be
packaged in WOFF format for Web use. User agents decode the
WOFF file to restore the font data such that it will display
identically to the input font. Learn more about the Fonts
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-WOFF-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/Fonts/
Role Attribute Proposed Recommendation Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9664
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published a
Proposed Recommendation of "Role Attribute," an XML attribute
that allows authors 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.
Comments are welcome through 1 February 2013. Read the Role
Attribute Proposed 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/PR-role-attribute-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2012OctDec/0197
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Call for Review: Selectors API Level 1 Proposed Recommendation
Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9663
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Proposed
Recommendation of "Selectors API Level 1." Selectors, which
are widely used in CSS, are patterns that match against
elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification
defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by
matching against a group of selectors. It is often desirable to
perform DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a
document. These methods simplify the process of acquiring
specific elements, especially compared with the more verbose
techniques defined and used in the past. Comments are welcome
through 25 January. Learn more about the Rich Web Client
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/PR-selectors-api-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9662
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Conditional Rules Module Level
3." This module contains the features of CSS for conditional
processing of parts of style sheets, conditioned on
capabilities of the processor or the document the style sheet
is being applied to. It includes and extends the functionality
of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main
extensions compared to level 2 are allowing nesting of certain
at-rules inside ‘@media’, and the addition of the ‘@supports’
rule for conditional processing. Comments are welcome through
10 January. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-conditional-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
Content Security Policy 1.1 Draft Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9661
The Web Application Security Working Group has published the
First Public Working Draft of "Content Security Policy 1.1."
This document defines a policy language used to declare a set
of content restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for
transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the
policy is enforced. Learn more about the Security Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-CSP11-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/Security/
HTML+RDFa 1.1 Draft Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9660
The RDFa Working Group and the HTML Working Group have
published a Working Draft of "HTML+RDFa 1.1." This
specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the
RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5
and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only
apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to
HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing
rules. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity, and the HTML
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-rdfa-in-html-20121213/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.w3.org/html/Activity
HTML Media Capture and Ambient Light Events Drafts Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9658
The Device APIs Working Group has published two documents
today:
http://www.w3.org/2009/dap/
* A Working Draft of HTML Media Capture.The HTML Media
Capture specification defines an HTML form extension that
facilitates user access to a device's media capture
mechanism, such as a camera, or microphone, from within a
file upload control.
* A Last Call Working Draft of Ambient Light Events.This
specification defines a means to receive events that
correspond to a light sensor detecting the presence of a
light. Comments are welcome through 26 January.
Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
Web Audio API and Web MIDI API Drafts Published
13 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9659
The Audio Working Group has published two Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/
* Web Audio API. This specification describes a high-level
JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web
applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing
graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected
together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual
processing will primarily take place in the underlying
implementation (typically optimized Assembly / C / C++
code), but direct JavaScript processing and synthesis is
also supported.
* Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web
MIDI API. This specification defines an API supporting the
MIDI protocol, enabling web applications to enumerate and
select MIDI input and output devices on the client system
and send and receive MIDI messages. It is intended to
enable non-music MIDI applications as well as music ones,
by providing low-level access to the MIDI devices available
on the users' systems. At the same time, the Web MIDI API
is not intended to become a semantic controller platform;
it is designed to expose the mechanics of MIDI input and
output interfaces, and the practical aspects of sending and
receiving MIDI messages, without identifying what those
actions might mean semantically.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Report on Web and Automotive Workshop: Shift into High Gear on
the Web
12 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9657
[] W3C today published the report of the W3C Web and Automotive
Workshop: Shift into High Gear on the Web, hosted by Intel on
14-15 November 2012 in Rome, Italy, and sponsored by QNX and
Webinos.
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/summary
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/Overview
This workshop provided a way for the participants to focus on
opportunities and challenges for exploiting Web technologies
within the car, and what kinds of standards work may be needed
to realize the potential. The Workshop participants reached a
broad consensus that HTML5 is a compelling basis for
automotive, and that it is now timely to launch standardization
of user centric vehicle APIs in order to avoid the risk of
fragmentation from competing approaches. Other aspects were
identified, such as safety, network and devices integration,
business and advertising.
http://www.w3.org/2012/08/web-and-automotive/participants
The Workshop prioritized work on use cases and requirements,
security/policy mechanisms, a user centric vehicle API and a
reference model. The next steps are likely to include further
outreach with the aim of launching a standards activity; W3C
staff will work with stakeholders to identify opportunities for
launching work in support of standards for Web and Automotive.
Report: Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications
on Mobile
12 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9656
[] W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web
Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies
developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications,
particularly in the mobile context.
http://www.w3.org/2012/05/mobile-web-app-state/
http://www.w3.org/2012/11/mobile-web-app-state/
A deliverable of the webinos project, this eighth edition of
the document highlights changes since August 2012, particularly
the chartering of three new Working Groups on Near-Field
Communications (NFC), System Applications (i.e. native apps
built with Web technologies) and Pointer Events.
http://webinos.org/
Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
OWL 2 (Second Edition) is a W3C Recommendation
11 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9655
The OWL Working Group has published the Second Edition of the
OWL 2 ontology language as a W3C Edited Recommendation. OWL 2,
part of W3C's Semantic Web toolkit, allows people to capture
knowledge about a particular application domain (e.g, energy or
medicine) and then use tools to manage information, search
through it, and learn more from it.
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/
The second edition corrects several minor errors in the
specification and also clarifies the relationship between OWL 2
and Datatypes defined in Part 2 of the XML Schema Definition
Language (XSD) 1.1 (now a Recommendation). The standard
consists of 13 documents, of which 4 are instructional.
Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
W3C Invites Implementations of PROV
11 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9654
The Provenance Working Group has published four Candidate
Recommendation Documents along with corresponding supporting
notes. You can find a complete list at the "PROV Overview
draft." These document provide a framework for interchanging
provenance on the Web. PROV enables one to represent and
interchange provenance information using widely available
formats such as RDF and XML. In addition, it provides
definitions for accessing provenance information, validating
it, and mapping to Dublin Core.
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-overview-20121211/
The release of these Candidate Recommendation documents is a
signal to developers that the Working Group believes that each
specification is ready for implementation. Although there are
already a number of implementations around, the Provenance
Working Group kindly asks for developers across the Web to
implement the specification and provide implementation
feedback.
You can contact the group directly through the public comments
mailing list. You are also encouraged to fill out one of
group's surveys about your usage of PROV.
mailto:public-prov-comments@w3.org
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvImplementations
Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Twelve RIF Specifications Published
11 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9650
The Rule Interchange Format Working Group has published a set
of twelve documents, advancing the Rule Interchange Format
(RIF) to Proposed Edited Recommendation. The Working Group has
made minor editorial improvements to its six
Recommendations-track specification and its six Working Group
Notes, including producing a new RIF Primer.
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg
The Specifications are:
1. RIF Overview
2. RIF Core Dialect
3. RIF Basic Logic Dialect
4. RIF Production
5. RIF Framework for Logic Dialects
6. RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0
7. RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility
8. OWL 2 RL in RIF
9. RIF Combination with XML data
10. RIF In RDF
11. RIF Test Cases
12. RIF Primer
Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Pointer Events Draft Published
11 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9653
The Pointer Events Working Group has published the First Public
Working Draft of "Pointer Events." This document defines
events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic
pointer input from devices like a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
For compatibility with existing mouse-based content, this
specification also describes a mapping to fire DOM Level 3
Events Mouse Events for pointer device types other than mouse.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-pointerevents-20121211/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
W3C Invites Implementations of Server-Sent Events
11 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9652
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
the Candidate Recommendation of "Server-Sent Events." This
specification defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for
receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM
events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to
work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-eventsource-20121211/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
CSS Fonts Module Level 3 Draft Published
11 December 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9651
The CSS Working Group published a Working Draft of "CSS Fonts
Module Level 3." This CSS3 module describes how font
properties are specified and how font resources are loaded
dynamically. The contents of this specification are a
consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and
CSS3 Web Fonts modules. Learn more about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-fonts-20121211/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
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