W3C has published the January 2015 edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context.

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, this edition includes changes and additions since October 2014, and covers continued progress of the platform. A notable change is that the document has been re-organized around the categories defined as Application Foundations, a set of high-level grouping of features that highlight the needs from users and developers for the next generation of Web technologies. Learn more about the Web and Mobile Interest Group.

The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communications Working Group have published a Working Draft of Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions. This specification extends the Media Capture and Streams specification to allow a depth stream to be requested from the web platform using APIs familiar to web authors. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

The Social Web Working Group has published two Working Draft today:

• Activity Streams 2.0. This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format.
• Activity Vocabulary. This specification defines a set of abstract classes and properties that describe past, present and future Activities.

Learn more about the Social Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3. This module describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages, columns, or regions. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans. Learn more about the Style Activity.

Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0 has been published as a Working Group Note. The Internationalization Working Group discontinued work on this guide to provide HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML, to consider character encoding when producing web pages, and to understand how to choose and declare encodings, how and when to use character escapes, etc. This information is now available in the tutorial Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS and other articles produced by the Internationalization Activity. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communication Working Group have published two Working Drafts today.

• MediaStream Recording, which defines a recording API for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams.
• Mediastream Image Capture, which specifies the takePhoto() and grabFrame() methods, and corresponding camera settings for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams.

Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.