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- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:40:40 -0500
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Open Web Platform year-end Highlights 2016
16 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6022>
W3C published today Open Web Platform year-end Highlights 2016. We invite you to read how we are moving the Web ahead by continuously enhancing Web technology in particular in areas such as Virtual Reality, Web Payments, Web security and authentication, media playback, Web and Automotive, and by strengthening the core of the Web, HTML. Celebrate with us the 20th anniversary of CSS starting 17 December and throughout the coming year. Lastly, learn how the Web impacts your industry by meeting Members of the W3C Team at CES on 5-8 January 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA. Come meet and discuss – we will be in Suite #313 at the Westgate Hotel.
<https://www.w3.org/2016/12/open-web-platform.html.en>
<https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS20/>
<https://www.w3.org/2017/CES/>
Call for Review: Data on the Web Best Practices
15 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6006>
The W3C "Data on the Web Best Practices" is now a Proposed Recommendation. Complemented by the "Dataset Usage" and "Data Quality" vocabularies (both published today as stable Notes), the Best Practices set out how publishers can share data on the Web with maximum benefit by harnessing the Network Effect. Areas like licensing, provenance, access APIs, identifiers for and within datasets, feedback, enrichment and preservation are all covered in this comprehensive work.
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/PR-dwbp-20161215/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-vocab-duv-20161215/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-vocab-dqv-20161215/>
The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has compiled a substantial implementation report that demonstrates that the Best Practices are followed across many domains including government, scientific research and cultural heritage. The three documents are designed to further develop a dynamic ecosystem in which data can be discovered, understood, evaluated and reused, and that reuse recognized. Comments are welcome through 15 January 2017.
<https://www.w3.org/2013/dwbp/>
Call for Review: Web Cryptography API Proposed Recommendation Published
15 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6008>
The W3C "Web Cryptography" is now a Proposed Recommendation. This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications. Comments are welcome through 15 January 2017.
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/PR-WebCryptoAPI-20161215/>
W3C Invites Implementations of Activity Streams 2.0 and Activity Vocabulary
15 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6009>
The Social Web Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations:
<https://www.w3.org/Social/WG>
* Activity Streams 2.0: This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format. In the most basic sense, an “Activity” is a semantic description of an action. It is the goal of this specification to provide a JSON-based syntax that is sufficient to express metadata about activities in a rich, human-friendly but machine-processable and extensible manner.
* Activity Vocabulary: This specification describes the Activity vocabulary. The Activity Streams 2.0 Vocabulary defines a set of abstract types and properties that describe past, present and future Activities.
Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 is a Candidate Recommendation
15 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6013>
"Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0" has been published as a Candidate Recommendation and is now undergoing implementation finalization and testing. DPub-ARIA defines a WAI-ARIA module encompassing an ontology of roles, states and properties specific to the digital publishing industry. This allows an author to convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies and to enable semantic navigation, styling and interactive features used by readers. More information about this publication is available in the blog DPUB-ARIA 1.0 is Released as a Candidate Recommendation. The draft implementation report shows the progress of testing. Please send implementation information or comments by 27 January 2017. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-dpub-aria-1.0-20161215/>
<https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/12/dpub-aria-1-0-is-released-as-a-candidate-recommendation/>
<http://w3c.github.io/test-results/dpub-aria/README.md>
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/>
Content Security Policy Level 2 is a W3C Recommendation
15 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6017>
The Web Application Security Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "Content Security Policy Level 2." 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.
<https://www.w3.org/2011/webappsec>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-WebIDL-1-20161215/>
WebIDL Level 1 is a W3C Recommendation
15 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6015>
The Web Platform Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of "WebIDL Level 1." This document defines an interface definition language, Web IDL, that can be used to describe interfaces that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Web IDL is an IDL variant with a number of features that allow the behavior of common script objects in the web platform to be specified more readily. How interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to constructs within ECMAScript execution environments is also detailed in this document. It is expected that newly published specifications reference this document to ensure conforming implementations of interfaces are interoperable.
<https://www.w3.org/WebPlatform/WG/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-WebIDL-1-20161215/>
W3C Invites Implementations of XQuery 3.1, XQueryX 3.1, XPath 3.1 and supporting documents
13 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6001>
The XML Query Working Group has republished Candidate Recommendations of "XQuery 3.1: An XML Query Language," "XQueryX 3.1," and, jointly with the XSLT Working Group, "XML Path Language (XPath) 3.1," "XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.1," "XQuery and XPath Functions and Operators 3.1," and "XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.1." The republications reflect small but substantive changes since the previous publication; the Working Groups hope to move these specifications to Proposed Recommendation in January.
<https://www.w3.org//XML/Query/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-xquery-31-20161213/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-xqueryx-31-20161213/>
<https://www.w3.org//Style/XSL/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-xpath-31-20161213/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-xpath-datamodel-31-20161213/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-xpathfunctions-31-20161213/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-xslt-xquery-serialization-31-201 61213/>
The XML Query Working Group also updated the "XQuery 3.1 Requirements and Use Cases" note.
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/NOTE-xquery-31-requirements-20161213/>
W3C Invites Implementations of Performance Timeline Level 2
8 December 2016
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5999>
The Web Performance Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of "Performance Timeline Level 2." This specification extends the High Resolution Time specification by providing methods to store and retrieve high resolution performance metric data. Accurately measuring performance characteristics of web applications is an important aspect of making web applications faster. This specification defines the necessary Performance Timeline primitives that enable web developers to access, instrument, and retrieve various performance metrics from the full lifecycle of a web application.
<https://www.w3.org/webperf/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-performance-timeline-2-20161208/>
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<https://www.w3.org/blog/2016/12/dpub-aria-1-0-is-released-as-a-candidate-recommendation/>
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