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W3C Launches New Government Linked Data Working Group
06 June 2011 | Archive
W3C today launched the new Government Linked Data Working Group, whose mission is to provide standards and other information which help governments around the world publish their data as effective and usable Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies; see the full charter. In addition, W3C renewed today the eGovernment Interest Group, a forum for building and strengthening the community of people who use or promote the use of W3C technologies to improve Government. That group identifies and discusses essential areas of technology and related policy issues; see the full eGov Interest Group charter and learn more about eGovernment at W3C.
Battery Status Event Specification Updated
02 June 2011 | Archive
The Device APIs and Policy Working Group has published a Working Draft of Battery Status Event Specification. This specification defines a new DOM event type that provides information about the battery status of the hosting device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
Three Web Performance Drafts Published: Visibility, Timing Control for Script-Based Animations, Navigation Timin
02 June 2011 | Archive
The Web Performance Working Group published three drafts today:
- a First Public Working Draft of Page Visibility, which defines a means for site developers to programmatically determine the current visibility state of the page in order to develop power and CPU efficient web applications.
- a First Public Working Draft of Timing control for script-based animations, which defines an API web page authors can use to write script-based animations where the user agent is in control of limiting the update rate of the animation. Using this API should result in more appropriate utilization of the CPU by the browser.
- an update to the Candidate Recommendation for Navigation Timing, which defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3 Draft Updated
31 May 2011 | Archive
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3. CSS3 Writing Modes defines CSS features to support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g., Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g., mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g., Asian scripts). Learn more about the Style Activity.
DOM Level 3 Events Published as Last Call; DOM Core Draft Updated
31 May 2011 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of DOM Level 3 Events. The DOM is a language- and platform neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents. Document Object Model Events Level 3 defines a generic platform- and language-neutral event system which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each event. Comments welcome through 28 June 2011. The group also published today an updated Working Draft of DOM Core. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
