Community-Driven WebPlatform Docs to Aid Developers
The W3C has published a new resource for web developers, the WebPlatform Docs. Released as an alpha version, this is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation. It provides a single site for current, cross-browser and cross-device coding best practices.
New Recommendations
“Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces” is now a W3C Recommendation.
The SPARQL working group has published several candidate recommendations:
SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol
New Working Drafts
The XML Security Working Group [1] has published two Last Call Working Drafts: XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, and XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1.
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Drafts of “Filter Effects 1.0” and “CSS Counter Styles Level 3.”
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of “File API.” This specification defines the basic representations for files, lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and programmatic ways to read files in web applications. Additionally, this specification also defines an interface that represents “raw data” which can be asynchronously processed on the main thread of conforming user agents.
The Technical Architecture Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of “Publishing and Linking on the Web.”This document is intended to inform future social and legal discussions of the Web by clarifying the ways in which the Web’s technical facilities operate to store, publish and retrieve information, and by providing definitions for terminology as used within the Web’s technical community. This document also describes the technical and operational impact that does or could result from legal constraints on publishing, linking and transformation on the Web.
The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of “Linked Data Platform 1.0.” A set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF.
The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of “Push API.” This specification defines a “Push API” that provides webapps with scripted access to server-sent application data.
WCAG 2 Becomes ISO Standard
The W3C and the Joint Technical Committee JTC 1, Information Technology of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), announced approval of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as an ISO/IEC International Standard (ISO/IEC 40500:2012). WCAG 2.0 has been adopted or referenced by many governments and organizations.
Calls for Participation
The W3C has issued calls for participation for
- the MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group, part of the Internationalization Activity.
- the Internationalization Working Group, another part of the Internationalization Activity.
- the System Applications Working Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity
- the Near Field Communications Working Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity
- the WebFonts Working Group, part of the Fonts Activity
- the Pointer Events Working Group, part of the Rich Web Clients Activity