September 2014 – LBNL W3C Rep Blog

The W3C is working to increase developer engagement with W3C. As part of that initiative, it is considering a new type of membership in the consortium, provisionally called the “webizen” program. Individuals who are employees of member organizations (as are we) *would* be eligible to participate, and in fact anyone could be a webizen. We need your help to figure out how to make the program useful and also fair. Please take a moment to fill out a brief survey regarding this proposal, and forward the info to anyone you think might be interested. The survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/webizen-survey/ Blog post about the survey: http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/09/a-greater-voice-for-individuals-in-w3c/.

W3C20 Symposium Seeks Participation from Everyone

2014 marks the 20th year of the W3C and also the 25th year of the Web itself. To mark the occasion and to gear the consortium toward a future web that addresses the needs of everyone, W3C is holding a Symposium on the Future of the Web on October 29 at the Santa Clara Marriott. This is an opportunity for anyone who is interested to attend and join in the discussion. You need not have any prior affiliation with the W3C to participate. The symposium will be held from 3:00 to 6:00, followed by a gala dinner from 7:30 to 10:00.

HTML5 Becomes Proposed Recommendation

It’s almost there! HTML5 is now in the Proposed Recommendation stage, which means that once it garners approval by the W3C Advisory Committee, it will become an official W3C Recommendation. Much of the goodness in HTML5 has already been implemented in browsers, but the completion of its development to recommendation status means that the changes are standardized by the W3C, making them much more stable and thus more reasonable to take advantage of in your code.

New Recommendations

Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Profile for limiting usage of dynamic memory

Proposed Recommendations

HTML5

Last Call Working Drafts

XQuery and XPath Full Text 3.0

Linked Data Platform 1.0

Battery Status API

CSS Counter Styles Level 3

First Public Working Drafts

Linked Data Patch Format

Referrer Policy

Notes

HTML5 Differences from HTML4

Linked Data Platform Best Practices and Guidelines

Final report of the W3C Workshop on the Web of Things

report of the MultilingualWeb workshop

report from the first Share-PSI 2.0 workshop (Share-PSI 2.0 is the European network for the exchange of experience and ideas around implementing open data policies in the public sector.)

Developers’ Guide to Features of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools