“To standardize and foster the deployment of an universal open
platform for data, documents and applications on the Web that is
suitable for human to machine, machine to machine and, ultimately,
for human to human interaction.”
The Web Client Platform, 2001
Requirements
Text
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Forms
HTML
Style
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Fonts
Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
Images, Videos
HTML
Protocols
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Sockets
Dynamic
JavaScript (ES), Web Application Programming Interfaces (Web APIs)
2D Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), 2D Canvas API
3D Graphics
WebGL Canvas API
Offline access
Web APIs: Web Storage, IndexedDB, File API
Device access
Web APIs: Geolocation, Orientation, Multi-touch, etc.
Data
RDFa, Microdata
…
…
Technologies
Text
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Forms
HTML
Style
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Fonts
Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
Images, Videos
HTML
Protocols
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Web Sockets
Dynamic
JavaScript (ES), Web Application Programming Interfaces (Web APIs)
2D Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), 2D Canvas API
3D Graphics
WebGL Canvas API
Offline access
Web APIs: Web Storage, IndexedDB, File API
Device access
Web APIs: Geolocation, Orientation, Multi-touch, etc.
Data
RDFa, Microdata
…
…
The Web Client Platform, 2011
Note: this diagram is work in progress.
The Next Open Web Platform
HTML5
CSS 2.1
CSS 3 Selectors
CSS 3 Media Queries
CSS 3 Text
CSS 3 Backgrounds and Borders
CSS 3 Colors
CSS 3 2D Transformations
CSSOM View Module
CSS 3 Transitions
CSS 3 Animations
CSS 3 Multi-Columns
CSS Namespaces
SVG 1.1
WAI-ARIA 1.0
MathML 2.0
ECMAScript 5
2D Context
WebGL
Web Storage
Indexed Database
Web Workers
Web Sockets Protocol/API
Geolocation
Progress Events
Element Traversal
DOM Level 3 Events
Media Fragments
XMLHttpRequest
Selectors API
CSSOM View Module
File API
RDFa
Microdata
WOFF
HTTP 1.1 part 1 to part 7
TLS 1.2 (updated)
IRI (updated)
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