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Three RDF Notes published

05 July 2012 | Archive

The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Group Notes that, while advanced, were not completed before the end of the group's charter. For more information, see the explanation in each individual document.

  • RDFa API provides and API for simple extraction and usage of structured information from a Web document.
  • RDF API defines a set of standardized interfaces for working with RDF data in a web-based programming environment.
  • RDF Interfaces defines a set of standardized interfaces for working with RDF data in a programming environment.

Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Note Published: Registration and Discovery of Multimodal Modality Components in Multimodal Systems: Use Cases and Requirements

05 July 2012 | Archive

The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published a Group Note of Registration and Discovery of Multimodal Modality Components in Multimodal Systems: Use Cases and Requirements. Users of mobile phones, personal computers, tablets or other electronic Devices are increasingly interacting with their devices in a variety of ways: touch screen, voice, stylus, keypads, etc. Today, users, vendors, operators and broadcasters can produce and use all kinds of different Media and Devices that are capable of supporting multiple modes of input or output. Tools for authoring, edition or distribution of Media for Application developers are well-documented. But there is a lack of powerful tools or practices for a richer integration and semantic synchronization of all these media. To the best of our knowledge, there is no standardized way to build a web Application that can dynamically combine and control discovered modalities by querying a registry based on user-experience data and modality states. This document describes design requirements that the Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces specification needs to cover in order to address this problem. Learn more about the Multimodal Interaction Activity.

Web Application Privacy Best Practices Note Published

03 July 2012 | Archive

The Device APIs Working Group has published a Group Note of Web Application Privacy Best Practices. This document describes privacy best practices for web applications, including those that might use device APIs. This continues the work on privacy best practices in section 3.3.1 on "User Awareness and Control" Mobile Web Application Best Practices without repeat the privacy principles and requirements documented in the Device API Privacy Requirements Note that it complements. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Fullscreen Draft Published

03 July 2012 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group and the CSS Working Group published the First Public Working Draft of Fullscreen. This document defines the fullscreen API for the web platform. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity and the Style Activity.

Quota Management API Draft Published

03 July 2012 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Quota Management API. This specification defines an API to manage usage and availability of local storage resources, and defines a means by which a user agent (UA) may grant Web applications permission to use more local space, temporarily or persistently, via various different storage APIs. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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