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WOFF File Format 2.0 is now a W3C Recommendation

1 March 2018 | Archive

fonts illustrationThe WebFonts Working Group has published WOFF File Format 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Based on experience with WOFF 1.0, which is widely deployed, this specification was developed to provide improved compression and thus lower use of network bandwidth, while still allowing fast decompression even on mobile devices. This is achieved by combining a content-aware preprocessing step and improved entropy coding, compared to the Flate compression used in WOFF 1.0. Read more in the W3C Media Advisory.

W3C Opens Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Special Election

5 March 2018 | Archive

W3C TAG logoThe W3C Advisory Committee having nominated three individuals, is invited today to vote until 2 April 2018 for one seat in the 2018 special election to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) per Process Document now granting an additional seat.

The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered under the W3C Process Document, with stewardship of the Web architecture. Some aspects of its mission include

  • to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
  • to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG;
  • to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.

W3C Invites Implementations of the High Resolution Time Level 2

1 March 2018 | Archive

The Web Performance Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of High Resolution Time Level 2. This specification defines an API that provides the time origin, and current time in sub-millisecond resolution, such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments.

Call for Review: TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0.1 (IMSC1) is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

27 February 2018 | Archive

The Timed Text Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0.1 (IMSC1). This document specifies two profiles of [TTML1]: a text-only profile and an image-only profile. These profiles are intended to be used across subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide, thereby simplifying interoperability, consistent rendering and conversion to other subtitling and captioning formats.

Comments are welcome through 27 March 2018.

First Public Working Draft: Text Layout Requirements for the Arabic Script

22 February 2018 | Archive

illustration of the effect of base direction on the order of runs The Arabic Layout Task Force, part of the W3C Internationalization Interest Group, has published a First Public Working Draft of Text Layout Requirements for the Arabic Script. This document describes the basic requirements for Arabic script layout and text support on the Web and in eBooks. These requirements provide information for Web technologies such as CSS, HTML and digital publications about how to support users of Arabic scripts. Currently the document focuses on Standard Arabic and Persian. Public comments are welcome, please raise them as github issues.

Read how W3C Internationalization (i18n) is making the World Wide Web worldwide.

WebAssembly First Public Working Drafts

15 February 2018 | Archive

The WebAssembly Working Group has published three First Public Working Drafts:

WebAssembly is a virtual instruction set architecture with many use cases and can be embedded in many different environments, that enables high performance applications on the Web. The design goals of WebAssembly are fast, safe, and portable semantics; efficient and portable representation. WebAssembly code is also intended to be easy to inspect and debug, especially in environments like web browsers.

ODRL 2.2 is now a W3C Recommendation

15 February 2018 | Archive

diagram of simplified ODRL modelThe Permissions & Obligations Expression Working Group has just published a Recommendation for two documents, namely:

  • ODRL Information ModelThe Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) is a policy expression language that provides a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for representing statements about the usage of content and services. The ODRL Information Model describes the underlying concepts, entities, and relationships that form the foundational basis for the semantics of the ODRL policies.
    Policies are used to represent permitted and prohibited actions over a certain asset, as well as the obligations required to be met by stakeholders. In addition, policies may be limited by constraints (e.g., temporal or spatial constraints) and duties (e.g., payments) may be imposed on permissions.
  • ODRL Vocabulary & ExpressionThe ODRL Vocabulary and Expression describes the terms used in ODRL policies and how to encode them.

Please read more in the W3C Blog about ODRL, its story and its future, ODRL: A Path Well Travelled, a post authored by the working group co-chair, Renato Iannella, Monegraph.

W3C Announces All-out Spec Template Redesign Collaboration

8 February 2018 | Archive

The W3C Specification Redesign Team comprises students in the User Experience and Interaction Design master’s degree program at Jefferson UniversityW3C today announced a collaboration with Jefferson University User Experience and Interaction Design program, which has established a class and a small working group of student designers to re-design the W3C’s specification template, aiming to make the standards for the web easier to use. The scope, requirements and audiences considerations are listed in the SpecProd/Restyle wiki.

The students are asking for your guidance, criticism and participation; and will be posting updates, sharing explorations and revisions, and requesting feedback via the Jefferson + W3C Collaboration blog. Everyone who uses or produces W3C specifications is invited to follow along and contribute. This will be a semester-long project for the students, with the goal of producing a prototype for May 2018. (Implementation and deployment plans will follow.)

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