Internet Society and W3C Strengthen Relationship to Help Ensure Open Global Internet
11 December 2009
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In a joint press release today, The Internet Society (ISOC) and W3C announced a donation from ISOC for the purpose of advancing the evolution of W3C as an organization that creates open Web standards. "ISOC and W3C have worked together for years in a number of areas, and have deeply shared values about the Internet’s development," said Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society. "Our support to the W3C in their transition efforts demonstrates ISOC's commitment to ensuring the Internet continues to be an open, global platform for innovation." The announcement reflects the two organizations' shared aim of ensuring the
continued growth and accessibility of the global Internet and Web, and stewardship responsibilities to ensure these global communication platforms continue to benefit users worldwide. More information is available in the
press release and in a FAQ about ISOC and W3C.
Last Call: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language
05 January 2010
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The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. A pipeline consists of steps. Like pipelines, steps take zero or more XML documents as their inputs and produce zero or more XML documents as their outputs. The inputs of a step come from the web, from the pipeline document, from the inputs to the pipeline itself, or from the outputs of other steps in the pipeline. The outputs from a step are consumed by other steps, are outputs of the pipeline as a whole, or are discarded. Comments are welcome through 02 February. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
Seven API Publications Advance Web Applications Stack
22 December 2009
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The Web Applications Working Group
has published updates to seven specifications related to
APIs that enhance the open Web platform as a runtime environment
for full-featured applications.
W3C invites implementation experience for the two newest
Candidate Recommendations:
- The Widget Interface
defines an application programming interface (API) for widgets that provides functionality for accessing a widget's metadata and persistently storing data.
The group's implementation report will be used to track progress.
- Selectors API Level 1
defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors (such as those used in Cascading Style Sheets). The
group is developing a selectors API test suite.
Comments on these Last Call Working Drafts are welcome until 30 June 2010:
- Web Storage
provides APIs for Web applications to store key-value data on
the client side.
- Web Workers
defines an API for enabling thread-like operations (using
message passing) in Web applications, so that certain
application tasks can be run in parallel.
- Server-Sent Events
defines an API for a Web application to open an HTTP connection
for receiving push notifications from a server, in the form of
DOM events.
The group also updated these Working Drafts:
- Web Sockets API
provides an API for full-duplex communication between a Web
application and a remote host.
- Web SQL Database
defines an API for Web applications to store data in client-side
databases that can be queried using a variant of SQL.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
