Social Web Activity Starts Up
On July 21, the W3C launched a new Social Activity aimed at helping developers build social networking apps that leverage the Open Web Platform. The goal is to better enable social technologies such as social business applications, cross-organization federation, and personal data privacy. The activity involves two new W3C groups, the Social Web Working Group and the Social Interest Group. The interest group will provide use cases and strategies, and the working group will develop specifications such as a JSON-based syntax for social data, a client-side web API, and a protocol for updating social information.
Web Annotation in the Works
W3C work on annotations is now gearing up. As a result of the April 2014 Web Annotations Workshop, the consortium is in the process of chartering a new Annotation Working Group. That group will develop standards to enable an open approach to annotations, facilitating an ecosystem of archived, shareable annotations available to the user in multiple environments. The Web Annotations Workshop report has been published as well.
New Working Drafts
Your chance to comment on early work
Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data
IndieUI: User Context 1.0: Contextual Information for User Interface Independence
Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1
DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent key Values
DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent code Values
Data on the Web Best Practices Use Cases and Requirements
Non-element Selectors Module Level 1
TTML Text and Image Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0
CSS Will Change Module Level 1
Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)
7 drafts from XQuery and XPath Working Groups
Last Call Working Drafts
Your last chance to suggest substantive changes
Content Security Policy Level 2
Geometry Interfaces Module Level 1
State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction
CSS Font Loading Module Level 3
CSS Custom Properties for Cascading Variables Module Level 1
New Recommendations
Official W3C specifications newly minted
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0
Group Notes and Reports
Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 1.0
Final report of the Linking Geospatial Data workshop
Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-Left Scripts
Authoring HTML: Language declarations
Interest Group Note for the vCard Ontology
Fourth Web and TV Workshop Report
Upcoming Workshops/Symposia
Workshop on Web Cryptography Next Steps
September 10-11, 2014, Mountain View, CA.
W3C20 Anniversary Symposium: The Future of the Web
October 29, Santa Clara, California