The W3C Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group, a merger of the WebAPI and WAF Working Groups, is chartered to develop standard APIs for client-side Web Application development. This work will include both documenting existing APIs such as XMLHttpRequest and developing new APIs in order to enable richer web applications.

This group works in public, with details on the WebApps Wiki.

We appreciate feedback on our work and charter through the public-webapps@w3.org mailing list (archived) and the #webapps channel on the Freenode IRC server. W3C Members are invited to join this group, and kick some apps!

The group maintains a list of its current deliverables (which are all available through our public CVS repository):

The W3C Team Contacts for the WebApps Working Group are Doug Schepers and Mike(tm) Smith. The Co-Chairs of the Working Group are Art Barstow and Charles McCathieNevile.

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