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The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Resource Timing Level 2. This specification defines an interface for web applications to access the complete timing information for resources in a document.
The Web Performance Working Group has published two Working Drafts:
The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the CSS Table Module Level 3. This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system, optimized for tabular data rendering. In the table layout model, each display node is assigned to an intersection between a set of consecutive rows and a set of consecutive columns, themselves generated from the table structure and sized according to their content.
The Automotive Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of the Vehicle Signal Server Specification which defines a WebSocket based API that enables client applications running on the In-Vehicle-Infotainment system and on the local vehicle network to access vehicle signals and data attributes. The purpose of the specification is to promote a Server API that enables application development in a consistent manner across participating automotive manufacturers.
The Social Web Working Group has published a Working Draft of PubSub. This specification describes an open, simple, web-scale and decentralized Publish-Subscribe protocol; and HTTP-based profile which requirements for high-volume publishers and subscribers are optional.
To mark the Autumn season, Google brought back the same artwork from its Vernal Equinox doodle earlier this year. The post Autumnal Equinox Google doodle welcomes first day of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere appeared first on Search Engine Land.
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The TV Control Working Group has published a Working Draft of TV Control API Specification. This specification defines an API for sourcing audio and video media, such as TV and radio from broadcast, IPTV, or other sources, with associated channel and program metadata, and allows presentation of the media using the video and audio HTML elements. The API is agnostic of any underlying audio or video sourcing technologies.
The Web Payments Working Group has published First Public Working Drafts of the following specifications, which enable the initiation of payment requests outside of a browser context:
The Working Group welcomes feedback on these early drafts.
The Device and Sensors Working Group has published 3 First Public Working Drafts of new sensor APIs to read data from accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.
These APIs, based on the group’s Generic Sensor API, give access to the low-level sensors needed to build higher-level APIs such as the Device Orientation API, but also open up new use cases so far unavailable to the Web Platform, e.g. via innovative use of the magnetometer.
The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a First Public Working Drafts of “Portable Web Publications Use Cases and Requirements. The document explores requirements for Portable Web Publications by listing 50 different requirements, each of them backed up with at least one, but often several, real world use cases and scenarios. This work will be the basis for the planning of further activities on Digital Publishing at the W3C.
If you wish to make comments regarding these documents, please submit issues at the corresponding github issues’ list.
The Internationalization Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Ethiopic Layout Requirements. This document describes requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Ethiopic script when they are used by Web standards and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Mobile Web, and Digital Publications. By publishing this first Working Draft we invite feedback and participation from interested parties. Learn more about other layout requirements initiatives in progress.
The Web Platform Working Group has published a Working Draft of Input Events. This specification defines additions to events for text and related input to allow for the monitoring and manipulation of default browser behavior in the context of text editor applications and other applications that deal with text input and text formatting. It builds on the UI events spec.
The RDF Data Shapes Web Working Group has published a Working Draft of SHACL Core Abstract Syntax and Semantics. This document defines an abstract syntax for the core SHACL (SHApes Constraint Language). It is derived from the SHACL specification and is a non-normative version of the content of that specification.
The Web Platform Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML 5.2. This specification defines the 5th major version, second minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention continues to be given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
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