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The Technical Architecture Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Publishing and Linking on the Web. Publishing a page on the Web is fundamentally different from printing and distributing a page in a magazine or book. 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. Comments are welcome through 13 December. Learn more about the Technical Architecture Group.

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of File API. Web applications should have the ability to manipulate as wide as possible a range of user input, including files that a user may wish to upload to a remote server or manipulate inside a rich web application. This specification defines the basic representations for files, lists of files, errors raised by access to files, and programmatic ways to read files. 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 interfaces and API defined in this specification can be used with other interfaces and APIs exposed to the Open Web Platform. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Filter Effects 1.0. Filter effects are a way of processing an element's rendering before it is displayed in the document. Typically, rendering an element via CSS or SVG can conceptually described as if the element, including its children, are drawn into a buffer (such as a raster image) and then that buffer is composited into the elements parent. Filters apply an effect before the compositing stage. Examples of such effects are blurring, changing color intensity and warping the image. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The HTML Working Group has published nine updated working drafts:

• The HTML5 specification
• HTML5: Edition for Web Authors
• HTML5 differences from HTML4
• HTML Microdata
• HTML Canvas 2D Context
• HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
• Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents
• HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide
• HTML: The Markup Language

There is a list of the changes made to the HTML5 specification since publication of the previous HTML Working Draft (March 2012). The changes are essentially fine-tuning refinements rather than major new additions, in keeping with the progress of the specification toward greater stability, and transitioning toward an upcoming Candidate Recommendation draft.

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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. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.