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The W3C Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group is chartered to create specifications that enable improved client-side application development on the Web, including specifications both for application programming interfaces (APIs) for client-side development and for markup vocabularies for describing and controlling client-side application behavior.

We appreciate feedback on our work and charter through the public-webapps@w3.org mail list (archive) and the #webapps channel (logged here) on the W3C IRC server (irc.w3.org, port 6665).

See the WebApps Publication Status page for a list of all of the specs in progress and their publication status.

For discussion of matters related to DOM3 Events, the WebApps WG will be using the www-dom@w3.org mail list (archive).

For a summary of the group's working mode, see the WebApps Work Mode wiki.

The WG tracks its issues in public, using the mighty Tracker.

Contents 1 Specifications 1.1 Core Interfaces 1.2 Network and File Transfer 1.2.1 Under Consideration and Miscellaeneous 1.3 Formats 1.4 Widgets 1.4.1 Published Documents 1.4.2 Unpublished Work In Progress ... 2 Charter 3 Meetings 4 Issue Tracking 5 Members 6 Liaisons

Specifications

The group is working on the following documents - all available in two Public CVS repositories (webapi and waf).

See the PubStatus page for current publication status regarding all of the group's specifications.

A summary of logistical details is available for some of the specification, grouped here by category:

Core Interfaces

• Clipboard Operations
• DOM Level 3 Events
• Element Traversal
• Media Access and Extensible Information for Metadata
• Selectors API
• Window Object

Network and File Transfer

• Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS); latest Editor's Draft
• File Upload
• Network Communication API
• Progress Events
• Language Bindings for DOM
• XMLHttpRequest Level 1 and Level 2

Under Consideration and Miscellaeneous

• An API for cross-domain access, related to or complementary to Access Control
• A distributed eventing mechanism to allow for transfer of events between networked devices
• An advanced pointers interface, to expose distinct features of specific devices such as pen/tablet inputs and multi-touch trackpads.
• Web Workers

Formats

• XBL2 (XML Binding Language); Candidate Recommendation

Widgets

The W3C Web Applications Working Group is working on a suite of Widgets specifications.

Published Documents

See Widgets Publication Status page for the latest publication data regarding the widgets specification suite

Unpublished Work In Progress ...

The following Widgets specs are Works In Progress i.e. they have not yet been formally published:

• Widgets 2.0 Use Case and Requirements

Charter

The charter is publicly available. For a historical view of the WebApps WG charter, see the Charter History.

See also notes on future development.

Meetings

The WebApps WG holds some topic-specific regular telcons and face-to-face meetings.

We will publish minutes for each telcon (teleconference) in public. See the list of WebApps telcons.

Issue Tracking

The WebApps WG uses the W3C Tracker tool to keep track of issues and actions on various specifications, using the following Tracker Guidelines.

Members

For a current list of Members organizations of the WebAPI WG, see the Member database.

Liaisons

• OMTP "Turin Rules" - these are the so-called "Turin Rules" which define the rules by which OMTP participates in WebApps specification work. These rules have been agreed by the legal staffs of the OMTP and the W3C.