Five API Working Drafts Updated

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The Web Applications Working Group has published updates to five Working Drafts of specifications for APIs that enhance the open Web platform as a runtime environment for full-featured applications:

  • Web Sockets API provides an API for full-duplex communication between a Web application and a remote host.
  • Web Storage provides APIs for Web applications to store key-value data on the client side.
  • Web Database defines an API for Web applications to store data in client-side databases that can be queried using a variant of SQL.
  • Web Workers defines an API for enabling thread-like operations (using message passing) in Web applications, so that certain application tasks can be run in parallel.
  • Server-Sent Events defines an API for a Web application to open an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server, in the form of DOM events.

Note that the Web Storage and Web Database specifications were previously published as a single Working Draft, but have now been split out into separate Working Drafts. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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