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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.
2 February 2015 | Archive
W3C has published the January 2015 edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context.
A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, this edition includes changes and additions since October 2014, and covers continued progress of the platform. A notable change is that the document has been re-organized around the categories defined as Application Foundations, a set of high-level grouping of features that highlight the needs from users and developers for the next generation of Web technologies. Learn more about the Web and Mobile Interest Group.
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.
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.
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.
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