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Congratulations to IETF on New Version of HTTP

19 February 2015 | Archive

W3C congratulates the IETF for the approval by the IESG of the HTTP/2 draft, which represents a major update on the core protocol of the World Wide Web. This new version of HTTP will allow better and faster Web Applications, and help reduce the gap between installable and Web applications. It will also boost interoperability, improve the path for secure connections, and reduce the need for some existing performance “hacks.”

First Public Working Draft: Media Capture from DOM Elements Draft Published

19 February 2015 | Archive

The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and Device APIs Working Group have published a Working Draft of Media Capture from DOM Elements. This document defines how a stream of media can be captured from a DOM element, such as a video, audio, or canvas element, in the form of a MediaStream. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

Last Call: XQuery Update Facility 3.0

19 February 2015 | Archive

The XML Query Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XQuery Update Facility 3.0. This document defines an update facility that extends the XML Query language, XQuery. The XQuery Update Facility 3.0 provides expressions that can be used to make persistent changes to instances of the XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0. Comments are welcome through 19 March. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

W3C Invites Implementations of XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.1

19 February 2015 | Archive

Today the XSLT Working Group and the XML Query Working Group jointly published a Candidate Recommendation for, and invite implementations of, XSLT and XQuery Serialization 3.1. The serialization specification defines output methods in XML, HTML, plain or formatted text and JSON. The specification returned to Working Draft to add an Adaptive serialization closer to industry practice for ad-hoc formatting of results. An extensive test suite is available. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity

W3C Invites Implementations of Content Security Policy Level 2

19 February 2015 | Archive

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Candidate Recommendation of Content Security Policy Level 2. This specification updates Content Security Policy, fine-tuning the existing policy options, and introducing a number of new mechanisms that site authors can use to mitigate the risk of content injection and related attacks. Major differences from Content Security Policy Level 1 may be found in Section 1.1 of the document.

With this publication, we move the earlier edition off the Recommendation Track to a Note (Content Security Policy 1.0) and invite implementers to share their experience with CSP Level 2. Learn more about the Security Activity.

First Public Working Draft: Server Timing Draft Published

17 February 2015 | Archive

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Working Draft of Server Timing. This specification introduces Server Timing, which enables the server to communicate performance metrics about the request-response cycle to the user agent, and a JavaScript interface to enable applications to collect, process, and act on these metrics to optimize application delivery. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

First Public Working Draft: Presentation API Draft Published

17 February 2015 | Archive

The Second Screen Presentation Working Group has published a Working Draft of Presentation API. This specification defines an API to enable web content to access external presentation-type displays and use them for presenting web content. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

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