W3C

The Device APIs Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations:

• Ambient Light Events. This specification defines a means to receive events that correspond to a light sensor detecting the presence of a light.
• Proximity Events. This specification defines a means to receive events that correspond to a proximity sensor detecting the presence of a physical object.

Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide. This is draft documentation mapping HTML elements and attributes to accessibility API Roles, States and Properties on a variety of platforms. It provides recommendations on deriving the accessible names and descriptions for HTML elements. It also provides accessible feature implementation examples. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The XML Query Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XQueryX 3.0. This document defines an XML Syntax for XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language. Comments are welcome through 22 October. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

W3C has published the September 2013 edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context.

A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the document includes changes and additions since March 2013, such as the newly chartered Web and Mobile IG (which will own the next iteration of the document), performance improvements through better scrolling integration and network request priorities, new early proposed approaches for responsive images and filesystem management. The report also shows graphically recent editorial activity for all the specs that it tracks

Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

W3C published today the final report of the August Social Standards: The Future of Business Workshop, organized jointly with the OpenSocial Foundation. W3C thanks AppFusions for hosting the event, and IBM and the Open Mobile Alliance for their sponsorship.

This Workshop provided a way for the social business and technical community to create a roadmap for standardizing the currently fragmented social landscape in order to make social a first-class part of the Open Web Platform. Participants discussed how social can revolutionize the enterprise and next steps for technologies such as OpenSocial and ActivityStreams, both of which are in early stages of revision. This workshop was the culmination of the activity of the Social Business Community Group.

Participants of the Workshop agreed that W3C should create a Working Group defining standards around social, ranging from APIs to profile federation, as well as a community group around property graphs. Collaboration with the OpenSocial Foundation, Open Mobile Alliance, ActivityStreams community, and many other groups in order will be one of the keys to creating the next generation of standards for the social web. We anticipate one or more draft charters will be available in the coming weeks.