PubStatus
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This document contains current data regarding the Publication Status of specifications being developed by the Web Apps WG. The data is provided in two tables: API Specifications and Widgets Specifications.
Note the WG's Charter enumerates all of the WG's deliverables and the charter includes a detailed Milestones table for each deliverable.
Please see the section Table Key for information regarding interpreting the data in the tables.
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API Specifications
| API Specifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of Spec | Last Publication | Type | Remarks | Plans |
| Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) | 17 March 2009 | WD | Dependency: Origin Header spec by IETF; see Comparison of CORS and UMP | |
| Clipboard Operations | 15 Nov 2006 | WD | ||
| DOM Level 3 Events | 3 Sep 2009 | WD | Weekly telecons; agendas and discussions on www-dom mail list. See also the DOM3Events Wiki Page. | LC 1Q-2010? |
| Element Traversal | 22 Dec 2008 | REC | A W3C Recommendation was published 22 Dec 2008. Errata published 16-Feb-2009. | Errata published if needed |
| File API | 17 Nov 2009 | FPWD | A File System API is inclded in the Charter of the Device API and Profile (DAP) WG. | |
| File Upload | 18 Oct 2006 | WD | Currently, no one is actively editing this spec. | None |
| Indexed Database API | 5 Jan 2010 | WD | This spec was formerly titled WebSimpleDB API | |
| Media Object | [ No Formal Pub ] | This spec is not active because it is expected to be replaced by the API for Media Resource 1.0 spec in progress by the Media Annotations WG; see Media Object API Use Cases and Requirements | None | |
| Programmable HTTP Caching and Serving | 14 Jan 2010 | WD | This spec was formerly titled DataCache API | |
| Progress Events | 21 May 2008 | WD | Functionality seems to be pretty settled. Hopefully March 5 editor's draft will have it ready for Last Call by happily resolving Issue 79 | 1Q-2010? |
| Selectors API | 22 Dec 2009 | CR | Advance to PR after 30-Apr-2010 | |
| Selectors API Level 2 | 19 Jan 2010 | FPWD | ||
| Server-Sent Events | 22 Dec 2009 | LCWD | LC comment period ends 30 June 2010 | |
| Uniform Messaging Policy (UMP) | 26 Jan 2010 | FPWD | See Comparison of CORS and UMP | |
| Web SQL Database | 22 Dec 2009 | WD | This spec was formerly titled Web Database; Open Issues List | |
| Web IDL | 19 Dec 2008 | WD | Technical discussions on public-script-coord mail list | WD Q1-10 |
| Web Sockets API | 22 Dec 2009 | WD | Dependency on IETF for related protocol. Technical discussions on IETF's hybi mail list. (This spec was formerly known as the Network Communication API.). See short Web Sockets slide deck. | |
| Web Storage | 22 Dec 2009 | LCWD | The database functionality is now specified in Web SQL Database spec. | LC comment period ends 30 June 2010 |
| Web Workers | 22 Dec 2009 | LCWD | LC comment period ends 30 June 2010 | |
| Window Object | 7 Apr 2006 | WD | No active editor. Currently a parallel version is part of the HTML 5 working draft | None |
| XBL2 Spec | 16 Mar 2007 | CR | See February 2009 XBL2 Implementation Status thread and June 2009 followup as well as implementation plans by Mozilla/Gecko for some data regarding XBL2 implementations. | Awaiting implementation feedback ... |
| XBL2 Primer | 18 Jul 2007 | WD | Blocked on XBL2 spec | |
| XmlHttpRequest | 19 Nov 2009 | LCWD | Last Call comment period ended 16 December 2009 | |
| XmlHttpRequest Level 2 | 20 Aug 2009 | WD | ||
Widgets Specifications
| Widgets Specifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of Spec | Last Publication | Type | Remarks | Plans |
| Widgets 1.0: Landscape | 14 Apr 2008 | WD | This document is a snapshot from April 2008 | WG Note 2010 |
| Widgets 1.0: Requirements | 30 Apr 2009 | WD | Need to add reqs from WARP, TWI, etc. specs. | WD 1Q-10 |
| Widget Packaging & Configuration | 01 Dec 2009 | CR#2 | Advancement to PR will occur no sooner than 25-Jan-2010. Test Suite; Test Cases; Implementation data | PR in 1Q-2010 |
| Widgets 1.0: Digital Signatures | 25 June 2009 | CR | CR ended 1 October 2009 | Continue to work on Test Suite. |
| The Widget Interface | 22 Dec 2009 | CR | Advancement to PR will occur no sooner than 25-Jan-2010. Test Suite; Test Cases; Implementation Report | PR in 1Q-2010 |
| Widgets 1.0: Updates | 07 Oct 2008 | FPWD | See Apple's Patent Disclosure, excluded claims, PAG Recommendations (published 8-Oct-2009) | WD 1Q-10 |
| Widget Access Request Policy (WARP) | 8 December 2009 | LCWD#2 | LC#2 comment period ended 13 January 2010. On 13-Nov-2009, Apple disclosed 2 patent applications they exclude from the W3C Royalty-Free Licensing Requirements. A Patent Advisory Group (PAG) was started on 30-Nov-2009. | See Remarks |
| Widgets 1.0: Widget URIs | 08 Oct 2009 | LCWD | LCWD comment period ended 10 November 2009 | |
| Widgets 1.0: View Modes Media Feature | 06 Oct 2009 | FPWD | This spec needs review; please send comments to public-webapps@w3.org | |
See also:
- Widget testing wiki
- CVS repository for Widgets specs and test suites
- Widget Family of Specs (includes non-published documents)
Table Key
The tables above use the following abbreviations and conventions:
- The link in the Name of Spec' column is the document's Editor's Draft
- The Last Publication column contains the date of the most recent formal publication as a W3C Technical Report
- FPWD = First Public Working Draft
- WD = Working Draft
- LC, LCWD = Last Call (Working Draft)
- CR = Candidate Recommendation
- PR = Proposed Recommendation
- REC = Recommendation
- No Formal Pub = the document has not yet been formally published by the W3C as a Technical Report.
Preliminary specs in Progress
In a few cases, we have specifications in progress but they are not listed in one of the above tables because the draft is very preliminary. See WebApps' three CVS directories (WAF, WebAPI and HTML) for more information.
