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The HTML Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of W3C DOM4. DOM defines a platform-neutral model for events and node trees. Comments are welcome through 07 July. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The Automotive Working Group has published a Working Draft of Vehicle Data. This specification defines a standard for Vehicle Data which might be available in a vehicle. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Vehicle API Specification.

The group also published a Working Draft of Vehicle Information Access API. The W3C Vehicle Information API aims to enable connectivity through in-vehicle infotainment systems and vehicle data access protocols. This API can also be leveraged by web applications running on mobile devices that access the data resources of a connected passenger vehicle.

Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Registration for W3C JavaScript online training course is open. The 4-week session, which begins 6 July 2015, provides JavaScript good practices, tricks, and tools, illustrated by numerous interactive examples. Register before 22 June to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus, the official W3C online training for Web developers and watch the intro video.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations:

• CSS Values and Units Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes the common values and units that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions.
• CSS Counter Styles Level 3. This module introduces the counter-style rule, which allows authors to define their own custom counter styles for use with CSS list-marker and generated-content counters CSS3LIST. It also predefines a set of common counter styles, including the ones present in CSS2 and CSS2.1.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Working Draft of Discovery & Registration of Multimodal Modality Components: State Handling. This document is addressed to people who want either to develop Modality Components for Multimodal Applications distributed over a local network or “in the cloud”. With this goal, in a multimodal system implemented according to the Multimodal Architecture Specification, the system must discover and register its Modality Components in order to preserve the overall state of the distributed elements. In this way, Modality Components can be composed with automation mechanisms in order to adapt the Application to the state of the surrounding environment. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Web Storage (Second Edition). This specification defines an API for persistent data storage of key-value pair data in Web clients, and introduces two related mechanisms, similar to HTTP session cookies, for storing name-value pairs on the client side. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of Entry Point Regulation. Entry Point Regulation aims to mitigate the risk of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site script inclusion (XSSI), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks by demarcating the areas of an application which are intended to be externally referencable. A specified policy is applied on external requests for all non-demarcated resources. Learn more about the Security Activity.