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This is the 24-31 January 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media. You […]
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The future of TV’s so bright, we gotta wear shades. Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend CES in Las Vegas and spent a lot of time being wowed by innovations in TV-related areas. There was the obvious headline-grabbing tech such as curved screens (the jury’s still out, it seems) and gorgeous OLED, […]
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There has been a lot of response to the announcement that W3C considers content protection for video as in-scope for discussion in the HTML Working Group. In this post I can touch on some of the arguments. We hear the outburst of criticism (and some support) for W3C’s recent rechartering of the HTML Working Group […]
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As most of the industry, W3C is gearing up for CES and will this year for the first time send a delegation to Las Vegas to spread the word on the Open Web Platform and HTML5. So this is...
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I spoke with Gilles Drieu, Vice President of Software Engineering at Motorola Mobility, about his participation in W3C. IJ: What motivates you to participate in W3C? GD: From the early 90's, I have always had a passion for the web....
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The Web and TV Interest Group has just published his first group note document: "Requirements for Home Networking Scenarios". This document is a collective work of the members of the Home Network TF of the IG and lists the...
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The Device APIs (DAP) Working Group is currently working towards a draft specification for discovering and binding to services on nearby devices. This follows on from discussions in the Home Networking Task Force in the Web and TV Interest...
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I met by phone with four engineers from Adobe on 17 June to ask them about how emerging open web standards such as HTML5, SVG, CSS3, and WOFF are transforming Web publishing. Arno Gourdol, Director of Engineering for Flash Runtime...
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HTML5 goes some way to bringing media to the Web but additional requirements need to be addressed for use in commercial video provider services. The Media Pipeline Task Force is to clarify these requirements and propose extensions to HTML media elements.
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When we start writing and or read about the activities around the Open Web Platform, we realize that the Web has never been that active. Everyone is proposing, developping, testing. And even if this weekly news from HTML5 and broader topics seemed to be long, it doesn’t cover everything. It is also important to realize that if you are passionate about one of these topics, the full information is accessible and open. Quite exciting. Some of these topics could be the source of long technical blog posts. If you do, please leave a comment or let me know.
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