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3 February 2015 | Archive
In recognition of increased consumer demand for data and services in Connected Cars, W3C announced today a new automotive industry collaboration to bring drivers and passengers a rich Web experience. The effort, a new Automotive Working Group, will focus initially on giving application vendors standard and more secure access to vehicle data. “Connectivity is transforming the car industry,” said Matt Jones, Head of Future Infotainment at Jaguar Land Rover. “We believe the Web is the auto industry’s best path forward to keep up with rapidly changing consumer expectations and evolving technology, as well as addressing challenges such as over-the-air updates and advanced diagnostics.” Read more support from industry in the full press release.
6 February 2015 | Archive
W3C today updated its General Document License to permit non-specification derivative works, such as inclusion of specification text in software, in supporting materials accompanying software, and in documentation of software. The license also makes all Code Components included in Specifications available under the W3C Software License. This update affects both upcoming publications, as well as existing publications, which are also now available under the new license.
5 February 2015 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of Service Workers. This specification describes a method that enables applications to take advantage of persistent background processing, including hooks to enable bootstrapping of web applications while offline. The core of this system is an event-driven Web Worker, which responds to events dispatched from documents and other sources. A system for managing installation, versions, and upgrades is provided. The service worker is a generic entry point for event-driven background processing in the Web Platform that is extensible by other specifications. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
3 February 2015 | Archive
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CSS Counter Styles Level 3. It adds new built-in counter styles to those defined in CSS 2.1, but, more importantly, it also allows authors to define custom styles for list markers, numbered headings and other types of generated content. This Candidate Recommendation incorporates responses to all feedback received during the previous two Last Calls.
The Internationalization Working Group has also updated their Working Draft of Predefined Counter Styles, which provides custom rules for over a hundred counter styles in use around the world. It serves both as a ready-to-use set of styles to copy into your own style sheets, and also as a set of worked examples.
Learn more about the Style Activity and the Internationalization Activity.
3 February 2015 | Archive
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Positioned Layout Module Level 3. This module contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to positioning and stacking of elements. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are the ability to position elements based on CSS Region boxes, the ability to specify different containing blocks for elements and sticky positioning. Other kinds of layout, such as tables, “floating” boxes, ruby annotations, grid layouts, columns and basic handling of normal “flow” content, are described in other modules. Also, the layout of text inside each line is defined elsewhere. Learn more about the Style Activity.
3 February 2015 | Archive
The Web Applications Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Server-Sent Events. This specification 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 in a way that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
