W3C News

First Draft of Turtle Published

2011-08-09T20:26:23Z

The RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Turtle. Turtle has long been popular among Semantic Web developers as an intuitive and powerful representation of RDF data. The standardization of Turtle will encourage its use in other standards such as R2RML as well as further its adoption in Semantic Web tool chains. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Last Call: Progress Events

2011-08-09T16:38:00Z

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Progress Events. The Progress Events specification defines an abstract event interface that can be used for measuring loading progress. Comments are welcome through 01 September. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

First Draft of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors Published

2011-08-09T16:29:55Z

The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors. This document is a strict subset of the full HTML5 specification that omits user-agent (UA) implementation details. It is targeted toward Web authors and others who are not UA implementors and who want a view of the HTML specification that focuses more precisely on details relevant to using the HTML language to create Web documents and Web applications. Because this document does not provide implementation conformance criteria, UA implementors should not rely on it, but should instead refer to the full HTML5 specification. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

XML Signature Best Practices Draft Published

2011-08-09T16:29:09Z

The XML Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of XML Signature Best Practices. This document collects best practices for implementers and users of the XML Signature specification. Most of these best practices are related to improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for best practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as signing XML that doesn't use namespaces, for example. Learn more about the Security Activity.

W3C Organizes Workshop on Data and Services Integration

2011-08-05T23:10:00Z

Integration of heterogeneous data and services has always been a concern for creators and managers of services. With the emergence of the Web, the need for reusing data and services has become even stronger as the number of available services has grown. Different services stacks now exist from Web Services to Cloud-based services. On 20-21 October, W3C is organizing a Workshop on Data and Services Integration hosted by MITRE in Bedford, MA, USA to bring together people with different ways of looking at the issues left unsolved by the existing stacks, to investigate the possible paths to help bridging services built using different paradigms, and to identify points where standardization would help integration of services and data. The Workshop is open to all at no cost, space permitting. Participants must submit a position paper by 9 September 2011. Learn more about the Workshop.

W3C Invites Implementations of WOFF File Format 1.0

2011-08-04T17:05:28Z

The WebFonts Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of WOFF File Format 1.0. This document specifies the WOFF font packaging format. This format was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of font data, suitable for use with CSS @font-face rules. Any properly licensed TrueType/OpenType/Open Font Format file can be packaged in WOFF format for Web use. User agents decode the WOFF file to restore the font data such that it will display identically to the input font. Learn more about the Fonts Activity.

CSSOM View Module Draft Published

2011-08-04T17:02:17Z

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSSOM View Module. The APIs introduced by this specification provide authors with a way to inspect and manipulate the visual view of a document. This includes getting the position of element layout boxes, obtaining the width of the viewport through script, and also scrolling an element. Learn more about the Style Activity.

First Draft Published of Web Application Privacy Best Practices

2011-08-04T17:00:31Z

The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Web Application Privacy Best Practices. This document outlines good privacy practices for web applications, including those that might use device APIs.Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

W3C Invites Implementations of W3C XML Schema Definition Language 1.1 (Parts 1 and 2)

2011-07-23T02:21:32Z

The XML Schema Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation s XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 1: Structures and XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. The first document specifies the XML Schema Definition Language, which offers facilities for describing the structure and constraining the contents of XML documents, including those which exploit the XML Namespace facility. The schema language, which is itself represented in an XML vocabulary and uses namespaces, substantially reconstructs and considerably extends the capabilities found in XML document type definitions (DTDs). This specification depends on XML Schema Definition Language 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes, which defines facilities for defining datatypes to be used in XML Schemas as well as other XML specifications. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

Last Call: Page Visibility

2011-07-23T02:17:58Z

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Page Visibility. This specification defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications. Comments are welcome through 18 August. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

First Draft of The From-Origin Header Published

2011-07-23T02:17:05Z

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of The From-Origin Header. The Web platform currently has no limitations on embedding resources from different origins. This specification defines a way for resources to declare they are unavailable within an embedding context. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts Updated

2011-07-23T02:11:48Z

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and the companion document Implementing ATAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Comments are welcome through 15 September 2011. Please see the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft for more information. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

User Agent Accesibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Draft Published

2011-07-21T02:14:17Z

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0. UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. The Working Group also published an updated Working Draft of Implementing UAAG 2.0. Read the invitation to review the UAAG 2.0 Working Draft and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Internationalization Checker Updated

2011-07-19T13:39:58Z

The i18n checker is a free service from W3C that provides information about internationalization-related aspects of your HTML page and advice on creating markup that supports the multilingual Web. This latest release uses a new user interface and redesigned source code. It also adds a number of new tests, a file upload facility, and support for HTML5. This is still a 'pre-final' release and development continues. There are already plans to add further tests and features, to translate the user interface, to add support for XHTML5 and polyglot documents, to integrate with the W3C Unicorn checker, and to add various other features. At this stage we are particularly interested in receiving user feedback. Learn more about Web Internationalization.

Last Call: API for Media Resources 1.0

2011-07-12T18:52:30Z

The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of API for Media Resources 1.0. This specification defines an API to access metadata information related to media resources on the Web. The overall purpose is to provide developers with convenient access to metadata information stored in different metadata formats. The API provides means to access the set of metadata properties defined in the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 specification. Comments are welcome through 07 August. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.