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4 April 2016 | Archive
W3C is pleased to launch today a new course: HTML5 Introduction. Taught by Intel and W3C experts, this course presents the basic building blocks of Web design and style, using basics of HTML5 and a few CSS features. We encourage future Web developers to enroll soon to learn how to build Web sites that look great. This introductory 6-week course nicely completes the “Learn HTML5 from W3C” XSeries group of three courses – all are open for registration.
29 March 2016 | Archive
The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a Group Note of WebCrypto Key Discovery. This note describes a JavaScript API for discovering named, origin-specific pre-provisioned cryptographic keys for use with the Web Cryptography API. Pre-provisioned keys are keys which have been made available to the UA by means other than the generation, derivation, importation and unwrapping functions of the Web Cryptography API. Origin-specific keys are keys that are available only to a specified origin. Named keys are identified by a name assumed to be known to the origin in question and provisioned with the key itself. This note concerns only keys which have all three of these properties.
29 March 2016 | Archive
The Device APIs Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Battery Status API. The Battery Status API specification defines a means for web developers to programmatically determine the battery status of the hosting device. Without knowing the battery status of a device, a web developer must design the web application with an assumption of sufficient battery level for the task at hand. This means the battery of a device may exhaust faster than desired because web developers are unable to make decisions based on the battery status. This specification defines an API that provides information about the battery status of the hosting device. Comments are welcome through 29 April.
