Pointer Lock is a Candidate Recommendation; First Draft of Manifest for web apps and bookmarks
17 December 2013 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group published three documents today:
- A Candidate Recommendation of Pointer Lock, which defines an API that provides scripted access to raw mouse movement data while locking the target of mouse events to a single element and removing the cursor from view. This is an essential input mode for certain classes of applications, especially first person perspective 3D applications and 3D modelling software.
- A First Public Working Draft of Manifest for web apps and bookmarks, which provides developers with a centralized place to put metadata about a web application. This includes, amongst other things, the ability to specify the name of the web application, links to icons, as well as the preferred URL at which the web application should open when it is launched by the user.
- A Working Draft of Input Method Editor API, which defines an input method editor (IME) API for Web applications. An IME is an application that allows a standard keyboard (such as a US-101 keyboard) to be used to type characters and symbols that are not directly represented on the keyboard itself. In China, Japan, and Korea, IMEs are used ubiquitously to enable standard keyboards to be employed to type the very large number of characters required for writing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
W3C Workshop: New Horizons for the Multilingual Web
18 December 2013 | Archive
W3C announced today the seventh MultilingualWeb workshop in a series of events exploring the mechanisms and processes needed to ensure that the World Wide Web lives up to its potential around the world and across barriers of language and culture. To be held 7-8 May 2014 in Madrid, this workshop is made possible by the generous support of the LIDER project. As part of the event, LIDER will organize a roadmapping workshop on linked data and content analytics. Anyone may attend all sessions at no charge and the W3C welcomes participation by both speakers and non-speaking attendees. Early registration is encouraged due to limited space.
Building on the success of six highly regarded previous workshops, this workshop will emphasize new technology developments that may lead to new opportunities for the Multilingual Web. The workshop brings together participants interested in the best practices and standards needed to help content creators, localizers, language tools developers, and others meet the challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further opportunities for networking across communities that span the various aspects involved. We are particularly interested in speakers who can demonstrate novel solutions for reaching out to a global, multilingual audience. Registration is available online.
