The Web Payments Working Group has published Web Payments Overview 1.0, which provides an introduction to the Web Payments ecosystem in development at W3C. The document lists some goals for improving payments on the Web, and provides a high level view of how components in the ecosystem communicate. The Working Group welcomes feedback.
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.
