W3C Blog

The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. The big discussions from last week have continued this week. Mutation and Canvas accessibility. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report.

HTML5 is still in Last Call.

Conversations

Proposals

• RFC from implementers on Element.innerText by Aryeh Gregor

Announcements

• Björn Höhrmann created a prototype for a framework and a test suite for specifications using Javascript.

• The big all W3C Working groups meeting, TPAC 2011, has been opened for registration. The Plenary day is an open session but you have to register. The meeting will be held from October 31 to November 4, 2011 in Santa Clara, California, USA.

• A Web site with a list Open Web Platform technologies

• A new draft of URI template has been published.

Hot Topics

• The discussion highlighted last week about SVG, Canvas and accessibility has been going on for the full week, also the discussion about mutation events.

• A discussion about test suites and RFC2119 shows the misunderstanding people have in between conformance, technology organization and certification.

• A long HTTP discussion on the meaning and implementations of 101 Switching Protocols

• update on a cursor index with a unique value constraint

• A new Exception model has been defined in WebIDL. The consequence is that other specifications might have to change. Anne van Kestern is asking if it’s an issue for the specifications editors.

• Last tweaks for getting WebSockets API to Last Call

This column is written by Karl Dubost, working in the Developer Relations & Tools at Opera Software.