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EXI Extends Reach of XML to New Devices and Applications
10 March 2011 | Archive
W3C today publishes a new standard that will enable people to use XML in brand new ways. The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) standard dramatically improves the performance, network efficiency, and power consumption of applications that use XML. EXI is a very compact representation of XML information, making it ideal for use in smart phones, devices with memory or bandwidth constraints, in performance sensitive applications such as sensor networks, in consumer electronics such as cameras, in automobiles, in real-time trading systems, and in many other scenarios. Extensive testing shows that EXI performs consistently better than previous XML formats, data compression, and even packed binary data formats. As such, it brings the full range of XML benefits to even the most demanding applications. Read the full press release and Member Testimonials. Learn more about XML at W3C.
Three Web Apps Last Calls: Server-Sent Events, Progress Events, Web Workers
10 March 2011 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group published three Last Call Working Drafts today:
- Server-Sent Events, defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS.
- Progress Events, defines an abstract event interface that can be used for measuring progress; e.g. HTTP entity body transfers.
- Web Workers, which defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism.
Comments are welcome through 21 April. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
Last Call: Ontology for Media Resources 1.0
08 March 2011 | Archive
The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. This ontology (vocabulary) bridges the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines a core set of metadata properties for media resources, along with their mappings to elements from a set of existing metadata formats. Besides that, the document presents a Semantic Web compatible implementation of the abstract ontology using RDF/OWL. The document is mostly targeted towards media resources available on the Web, as opposed to media resources that are only accessible in local archives or museums. Comments are welcome through 31 March. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.
