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W3C Launches Web of Things initiative

21 January 2015 | Archive

W3C announced today a new Web of Things initiative to develop Web standards for enabling open markets of applications and services based upon connected sensors and actuators (the Internet of Things) and the Web of data. Open standards will be essential to realising the huge potential. We invite you to join the new Web of Things Interest Group and drive work on use cases, requirements, and best practices. The aim is to build a shared vision and identify specific opportunities for standardization.

So far work on the Internet of Things has focused on the sensors and actuators and the associated communication technologies. Comparatively little attention has been given to what is needed for services to break free of today’s product silos. Web technologies are considered to be very promising, including the role of scripting languages like JavaScript for defining services. However, there is considerable work left to do to support discovery and interoperation of services, along with attention to security, privacy, accessibility and resilience in the face of faults and attacks.

The potential if we get this right is huge and will greatly expand the scale of the Web. Please join us to help address the many challenges.

Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions Draft Published

29 January 2015 | Archive

The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communications Working Group have published a Working Draft of Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions. This specification extends the Media Capture and Streams specification to allow a depth stream to be requested from the web platform using APIs familiar to web authors. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Activity Streams 2.0, and Activity Vocabulary Working Drafts Updated

29 January 2015 | Archive

The Social Web Working Group has published two Working Draft today:

  • Activity Streams 2.0. This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format.
  • Activity Vocabulary. This specification defines a set of abstract classes and properties that describe past, present and future Activities.

Learn more about the Social Activity.

CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3 Draft Published

29 January 2015 | Archive

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3. This module describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages, columns, or regions. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans. Learn more about the Style Activity.

Authoring Techniques for XHTML and HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0 Published as a Group Note

27 January 2015 | Archive

Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0 has been published as a Working Group Note. The Internationalization Working Group discontinued work on this guide to provide HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML, to consider character encoding when producing web pages, and to understand how to choose and declare encodings, how and when to use character escapes, etc. This information is now available in the tutorial Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS and other articles produced by the Internationalization Activity. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

MediaStream Recording; Mediastream Image Capture Drafts Published

27 January 2015 | Archive

The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communication Working Group have published two Working Drafts today.

  • MediaStream Recording, which defines a recording API for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams.
  • Mediastream Image Capture, which specifies the takePhoto() and grabFrame() methods, and corresponding camera settings for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams.

Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

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