Coordination
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This wiki contains information about the relationships and coordination points between the Web Applications WG (aka WebApps) and other Working Groups such as the Device API and Policy WG (aka DAPI) and the HTML WG. For instance, this document identifies WebApps' specifications that are referenced by DAPI specifications.
WebApps' Charter, DAPI's Charter and HTML WG's Charter formally define each WG's scope, deliverables, related groups, etc. The information in this document is superseded by the WGs' Charters.
The information is this page subject to change at any time. Members of the WGs mentioned here are encouraged to update this document. Change requests should be submitted to public-webapps@w3.org.
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WebApps' Widget Specs and DAPI APIs
Currently, none of WebApps' Widget specifications include normative references for any of DAPI's specs and none of DAPI's specifications have any normative references for WebApps' widget specifications.
WebApps' Web API specs and DAPI APIs
WebApps' API specifications do not include any normative references for any of DAPI's specifications.
The following DAPI specifications include one or more normative references to WebApps' Web API specs:
- Several of DAPI's API specs reference WebApps' Web IDL spec
- DAPI's HTML Media Capture spec has a normative reference to WebApps' File API spec
The DAPI WG is also interested in the following specs being produced by WebApps:
- The File* specs: File API, File API: Writer, File API: Directories and System
DAPI Policy and WebApps Specs
Currently, DAPI's policy specs do not reference any of WebApps' specifications. Conversely, none of WebApps' spec reference any of DAPI's policy specs.
WebApps' Web APIs and HTML WG
The following specifications were part of the HTML WG's HTML5 specification effort but were moved from the HTML WG to WebApps. Naturally, these specifications are a coordination point for the HTML WG and some of them are of interest to other WGs in W3C and/or other standards organizations:
- Server-sent Events
- Web Messaging
- Web SQL Database
- Web Sockets API; discussions on IETF's HyBi mail list
- Web Storage
- Web Workers
In addition to the above specifications, some members of the HTML WG expressed interested in at least the following Web API specifications:
- CORS and UMP
- DOM Level 3 Events; discussions on www-dom mail list
- Progress Events
- Web IDL; discussions on public-script-coord mail list
WebApps' Widget specs and HTML5
One or more of the Widgets specs include a normative reference to HTML5 and/or a HTML5 API spec:
- Web Storage: referenced by The Widget Interface spec
- HTML5: referenced by The Widget Interface spec
Additionally, a widget instance based on HTML5 may use HTML5's AppCache capability. None of the widget specifications specify application cache functionality.
