W3C

The HTML Working Group updated two Candidate Recommendations today:

• HTML5, which defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
• HTML Canvas 2D Context, which defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas element. The 2D Context provides objects, methods, and properties to draw and manipulate graphics on a canvas drawing surface.

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Today, W3C published W3C Highlights - August 2013, a survey of select recent work and upcoming priorities. The report includes: progress and work ahead in making the Open Web Platform a success on mobile devices, news in Web for All areas like accessibility and internationalization, how W3C is collaborating more closely with various industries that are being transformed by the Web, liaison updates, and new opportunities for more people to get involved in W3C.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3. This module contains the features of CSS relating to text decoration, such as underlines, text shadows, and emphasis marks. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The Government Linked Data Working Group has published three Group Notes and a Last Call Working Draft today:

• Group Note of Use Cases and Lessons for the Data Cube Vocabulary. Many national, regional and local governments, as well as other organizations in- and outside of the public sector, collect numeric data and aggregate this data into statistics. There is a need to publish these statistics in a standardized, machine-readable way on the Web, so that they can be freely integrated and reused in consuming applications.
• Group Note of Registered Organization Vocabulary. The Registered Organization Vocabulary is a profile of the Organization Ontology for describing organizations that have gained legal entity status through a formal registration process, typically in a national or regional register.
• Group Note of Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS). ADMS is a profile of DCAT, used to describe semantic assets (or just 'Assets'), defined as highly reusable metadata (e.g. xml schemata, generic data models) and reference data (e.g. code lists, taxonomies, dictionaries, vocabularies) that are used for eGovernment system development.
• Last Call Working Draft of Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT). DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogs published on the Web. This document defines the schema and provides examples for its use. Comments are welcome through 30 August.

Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.

The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction. This document describes SCXML, or the "State Chart extensible Markup Language". SCXML provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on CCXML and Harel State Tables. Comments are welcome through 27 September. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity.