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- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:42:12 -0500
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Dear W3C Public Newsletter Subscriber,
The 2013-11-04 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20131104
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Widget Interface is a W3C Recommendation; Last Call: Pointer Lock
31 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3374
The Web Applications Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation of "Widget Interface." This specification
defines an application programming interface (API) for widgets
that provides, amongst other things, functionality for
accessing a widget’s metadata and persistently storing data.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-widgets-apis-20131031/
The Web Applications Working Group has also published a Last
Call Working Draft of "Pointer Lock." This specification
defines an API that provides scripted access to raw mouse
movement data while locking the target of mouse events to a
single element and removing the cursor from view. This is an
essential input mode for certain classes of applications,
especially first person perspective 3D applications and 3D
modelling software. Comments are welcome through 28 November.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-pointerlock-20131031/
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
The Web Performance Working Group calls for review of User Timing and
Performance Timeline, calls for implementations of Timing control for
script-based animations
31 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3371
The Web Performance Working Group has published two Proposed
Recommendations and invites implementation of the Candidate
Recommendation today:
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
* A Proposed Recommendations of User Timing, which defines an
interface to help Web developers measure the performance of
their applications by giving them access to high precision
timestamps. Comments are welcome through 28 November.
* A Proposed Recommendation of Performance Timeline. This
specification defines an unified interface to store and
retrieve performance metric data. This specification does
not cover individual performance metric interfaces.
Comments are welcome through 28 November.
* A Candidate Recommendation of Timing control for
script-based animations. This document defines an API web
page authors can use to write script-based animations where
the user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of
the animation. The user agent is in a better position to
determine the ideal animation rate based on whether the
page is currently in a foreground or background tab, what
the current load on the CPU is, and so on. Using this API
should therefore result in more appropriate utilization of
the CPU by the browser.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Touch Events Extensions Note Published
31 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3369
The Web Events Working Group has published a Group Note of
"Touch Events Extensions." This document defines extensions to
the Touch Events specification that have been implemented by
one or more browsers. This document is no longer being
developed. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-touch-events-extensions-20131031
/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements Draft Published
31 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3367
The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "Linked Data Platform Use Cases and
Requirements." To foster the development of the Linked Data
Platform specification, this document includes a set of user
stories, use cases, scenarios and requirements that motivate a
simple read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP
access to web resources that describe their state using RDF.
The starting point for the development of these use cases is a
collection of user stories that provide realistic examples
describing how people may use read-write Linked Data. The use
cases themselves are captured in a narrative style that
describes a behavior, or set of behaviors based on, and using
scenarios from, these user stories. The aim throughout has been
to avoid details of protocol (specifically the HTTP protocol),
and use of any specific vocabulary that might be introduced by
the LDP specification. Learn more about the Semantic Web
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-ldp-ucr-20131031/
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
HTML Working Group updated HTML 5.1, HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2,
and HTML Microdata
31 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3365
The HTML Working Group has update two Working Drafts and a
Working Group Note today:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
* A Working Draft of HTML 5.1, which defines the 5th major
version, first minor revision of the core language of the
World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In
this version, new features continue to be introduced to
help Web application authors, new elements continue to be
introduced based on research into prevailing authoring
practices, and special attention continues to be given to
defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an
effort to improve interoperability.
* A Working Draft of HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2. This
specification defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas
element. The 2D Context provides objects, methods, and
properties to draw and manipulate graphics on a canvas
drawing surface.
* A Group Note of HTML Microdata, which defines the HTML
microdata mechanism. This mechanism allows machine-readable
data to be embedded in HTML documents in an easy-to-write
manner, with an unambiguous parsing model. It is compatible
with numerous other data formats including RDF and JSON.
Learn more about the HTML Activity.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 is a W3C
Recommendation
29 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3353
The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation of "Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version
2.0." ITS 2.0 provides a foundation for integrating automated
processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS
2.0 bears many commonalities with its predecessor, ITS 1.0, but
provides additional concepts that are designed to foster the
automated creation and processing of multilingual Web content.
Work on application scenarios for ITS 2.0 and gathering of
usage and implementation experience will now take place in the
ITS Interest Group. Learn more about the Internationalization
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-its20-20131029/
http://www.w3.org/International/its/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.w3.org/International/
Page Visibility (Second Edition) is a W3C Recommendation, Beacon and
Resource Priorities First Public Working Drafts
29 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3351
The Web Performance Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation and two First Public Working Drafts today:
http://www.w3.org/2010/webperf/
* A W3C Recommendation of Page Visibility (Second Edition).
This specification defines a means for site developers to
programmatically determine the current visibility state of
the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web
applications.
* A First Public Working Draft of Beacon. This specification
defines an interoperable means for site developers to
asynchronously transfer data from the user agent to a web
server, with the user agent taking the responsibility to
eventually send the data.
* A First Public Working Draft 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. This will allow User Agents to more
efficiently manage the order in which resources are
downloaded.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: CSS Masking Module Level 1
29 October 2013 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3349
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group and the SVG
Working Group have published a Last Call Working Draft of "CSS
Masking Module Level 1." CSS Masking provides two means for
partially or fully hiding portions of visual elements: masking
and clipping. Masking describes how to use another graphical
element or image as a luminance or alpha mask. Clipping
describes the visible region of visual elements. Comments are
welcome through 10 December. Learn more about the Style
Activity and the Graphics Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-masking-1-20131029/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/
More news: http://www.w3.org/blog/news/
Workshops
W3C Blog
* Training Courses in Spanish. Now HTML5!
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/10/w3c-training-courses-spanish
-html5/
30 October 2013 by Martin Alvarez-Espinar
* Welcoming Test the Web Forward to W3C
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/10/welcoming-testtwf-to-w3c/
30 October 2013 by Tobie Langel
* W3C Training in Korean
http://www.w3.org/blog/2013/10/w3c-training-in-korean/
30 October 2013 by Manyoung Cho
Upcoming Talks
* 2013-11-07 (7 NOV)
Web and Mobile
keynote by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
MobiCASE 2013
http://mobicase.org/2013/show/home
Paris, France
* 2013-11-13 (13 NOV)
Cryptographic operations in the browser
by Nick Van den Bleeken
Devoxx
http://www.devoxx.be/
Antwerp, Belgium
* 2013-11-22 (22 NOV)
XForms: The Big Picture
http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/Talks/2013/11-22-xforms/
keynote by Steven Pemberton
XForms Today voor CIO’s en CTO’s
http://www.w3c.nl/xforms-seminar-november-2013
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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