W3C Public Newsletter, 2019-12-16

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Happy holidays from the World Wide Web Consortium!

   13 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8203>

   Many thanks for all the ways you have made the Web work for everyone in 2019,
   and for all the work we will accomplish together in 2020.

   W3C wishes you a happy holiday season
   and all the best for the new year!

   From all of us at the World Wide Web Consortium.

W3C Recommends CSS Writing Modes to support International writing modes

   10 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8136>

   [] The CSS Working Group has published "CSS Writing Modes Level 3" as a W3C Recommendation.

   <https://www.w3.org/2019/12/pressrelease-css-writing-modes-rec.html.en>
   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/REC-css-writing-modes-3-20191210/>

   This CSS module defines CSS support for various international writing modes and their combinations, including left-to-right and right-to-left text ordering as well as horizontal and vertical orientations. These new CSS features allow a mixture of horizontal and vertical text regions on the same page. The specification also adds support for such things as isolation in bidirectional text, glyph orientation controls, and short, inline horizontal runs in lines of vertical text.

   Please, read our press release for additional information and acknowledgements.

   <https://www.w3.org/2019/12/pressrelease-css-writing-modes-rec.html.en>

Updated Candidate Recommendation for the Web Real-Time Communication 1.0 API

   13 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8220>

   The WebRTC Working Group invites implementation of its updated Candidate Recommendation of "WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers" specification.

   <https://www.w3.org/2011/04/webrtc/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/CR-webrtc-20191213/>

   The WebRTC API enables browsers to establish real-time audio, video and data transmission between browsers and other peers.

   Since its previous publication as a Candidate Recommendation, the Working Group has resolved all its substantive issues, ensuring better alignment between the specification and its implementations, improving and clarifying support for “simulcast” transmission and built better support against possible race conditions when peers set up their connections.

   Comments are welcome by January 12 2020.

W3C Invites Implementations of the Sensor APIs

   12 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8164>

   The Devices and Sensors Working Group invites implementations of four Candidate Recommendations:

   <https://www.w3.org/das/>
     * Generic Sensor API defines a framework for exposing sensor data to the Open Web Platform in a consistent way. It does so by defining a blueprint for writing specifications of concrete sensors along with an abstract Sensor interface that can be extended to accommodate different sensor types.
     * Accelerometer defines Accelerometer, LinearAccelerationSensor and GravitySensor interfaces for obtaining information about acceleration applied to the X, Y and Z axis of a device that hosts the sensor.
     * Gyroscope defines a concrete sensor interface to monitor the rate of rotation around the device’s local three primary axes.
     * Orientation Sensor defines a base orientation sensor interface and concrete sensor subclasses to monitor the device’s physical orientation in relation to a stationary three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.

   Comments are welcome by 8 January 2020.

W3C Invites Implementations of JSON-LD 1.1

   12 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8182>

   The JSON-LD Working Group invites implementations of three Candidate Recommendations:

   <https://www.w3.org/2018/json-ld-wg/>
     * JSON-LD 1.1 defines a JSON-based expression of Linked Data graphs. The syntax is designed to easily integrate into deployed systems that already use JSON, and provides a smooth upgrade path from JSON to JSON-LD. It enables the creation of more easily interoperable Web services, the ability to store Linked Data in JSON-based storage engines, and brings more meaningful data to Web services and APIs.
     * JSON-LD 1.1 Processing Algorithms and API defines an Application Programming Interface (API) for developers implementing a set of algorithms for programmatic transformations of JSON-LD documents.
     * JSON-LD 1.1 Framing allows developers to query a JSON-LD document’s contained graph, by example, and reshape output into a specific JSON tree layout.

   Candidate Recommendation means that the Working Group considers the technical design to be complete and is seeking implementation feedback on the documents. The group is keen to get comments and implementation experiences on these specifications as issues raised in the documents’ respective GitHub repositories (see the document headers for the exact references).

   The group expects to satisfy the implementation goals (i.e., at least two, independent implementations for each of the test cases) by 17 February 2020.

First Public Working Draft: Pointer Events Level 3

   12 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8194>

   The Pointer Events Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Pointer Events Level 3." The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, touchscreen, etc. For compatibility with existing mouse based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for other pointer device types.

   <https://www.w3.org/2012/pointerevents/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/WD-pointerevents3-20191212/>

Authorized Translation of WCAG 2.1 in Danish

   12 December 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8190>

   " " The World Wide Web Consortium published the Authorized Danish Translation of "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1," Retningslinjer for Tilgængeligt Webindhold (WCAG) 2.1. The Lead Translation Organization for this Authorized Translation was the Digitaliseringsstyrelsen (Danish Agency for Digitization).

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-WCAG21-20180605/>
   <https://www.w3.org/Translations/WCAG21-da/>
   <https://digst.dk>

   Translations in other languages are listed in WCAG 2 Translations. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) particularly encourages the development of Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.1 and other technical specifications to facilitate their adoption and implementation internationally. Read about the Policy for W3C Authorized Translations.

   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/translations/>
   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/>
   <https://www.w3.org/2005/02/TranslationPolicy>

   More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>

Developers News

   Learn more about participating in W3C work. W3C groups work with the public through specification reviews as well as contributions of use cases, tests, and implementation feedback.

   <http://www.w3.org/participate/>

   A number of presentations from the W3C Advisory Committee meeting and Developer Meetup in Fukuoka last September were video-taped:

     * Mark Foltz speaks about how the Second Screen Working Group and Community Group make connected displays and speaker devices accessible to the Web using APIs (Presentation API, Remote Playback API, etc.) (video, transcript, slides)
     * Nick Telford-Reed (W3C Invited Expert) presents an update on the Web Payments Working Group (video, transcript, slides)
     * Kenneth Christiansen (Intel) introduces the work on Progressive Web Apps and Project Fugu (video, transcript, slides)
     * Mark Folz (Google) speaks about efforts going on primarily within the Second Screen working group and community group (video, transcript, slides)
     * Fantasai (W3C Invited Expert) and Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C) present the motivations and directions for the W3C process evolution, aka, Process 2020, in a presentation called "Continuous Specification Development Process for W3C" (video, transcript, slides)

   At the Developer Meetup:

     * Melanie Richards (Microsoft) shows how to apply High Contrast or a custom color scheme to enable users to use Web interfaces in a limited color palette
     * Lin Clark (Mozilla) explains with her "Code Cartoons" how WebAssembly is set to redefine cross-language interoperability well beyond browsers

   And finally, we would like to share two video interviews:

     * Daniel Appelquist (Director of Web Advocacy & Open Source, Samsung Research UK) explains how the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) came to consensus on a set of basic ethical principles embodied (or that needs embodiment) in the architecture of the Web Platform
     * Daniel Appelquist explains the motivations behind the Ethical Web principles: the Web was built and is developed not as a neutral computing platform, but as a platform for social good

W3C Blog

     * W3C Trace Context specification enters proposed recommendation status and what it means
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/12/trace-context-enters-proposed-recommendation/>
       11 December 2019 by Philippe le Hegaret
       <http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/>

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