Web Applications Working Group Launched; Compound Document Formats rechartered

W3C launched a new Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group, co-Chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) and Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software). This group merges the former Web APIs and Web Application Formats Working Groups. Per the charter for the Web Applications Working Group, the group's mission is to provide specifications that enable improved client-side application development on the Web, including specifications both for application programming interfaces (APIs) for client-side development and for markup vocabularies for describing and controlling client-side application behavior. W3C also rechartered the Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group, to continue to develop specifications which combine selected existing document formats from the W3C and elsewhere, and which specify the runtime behavior of such combined documents. Both groups will conduct their work in public. The first order of business of the rechartered CDF Working Group is to propose Chair candidates to the Director; please contact Doug Schepers with proposals. Learn more about the Rich Web Clients Activity.