There have been an armful of advancements along the trail to W3C Recommendation across the various working groups. During this time, the W3C also published three workshop reports addressing big issues to the web and its denizens. Details below.
New Recommendations
The Web Applications Working Group published XML Digital Signatures for Widgets.
The XML Security Working Group published XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1, and XML Signature Properties.
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published Role Attribute 1.0, which supports ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
The Web Applications Working Group has published Selectors API Level 1.
A joint effort of members of the Business Rules, Semantic Web, and Logic Programming communities has published the Second Edition of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF).
RIF Core Dialect (Second Edition), RIF Basic Logic Dialect (Second Edition), RIF Production Rule Dialect (Second Edition), RIF Framework for Logic Dialects (Second Edition), RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 (Second Edition), and RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility (Second Edition).
New Proposed Recommendations
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group published Emotion Markup Language
The Web Applications Working Group published Web Storage.
The Web Performance Working Group has published Page Visibility.
The SPARQL Working Group has published SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes, SPARQL 1.1 Protocol, and SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol.
New Candidate Recommendations
The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group published the EXI Profile specification.
The CSS Working Group published CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3.
The XML Query and XSLT Working Groups published XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.0.
The RDF Working Group has published Turtle – A Terse RDF Triple Language.
he Web Application Security Working Group and the Web Applications Working Group published Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).
Workshop Reports
W3C Workshop Report on Electronic Books and the Open Web Platform
W3C Workshop Report on Do Not Track and Beyond
W3C Workshop Report on Current State and Roadmap of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile
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