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W3C Strategic Highlights: Strengthening the Core of the Web (Audio)

  (This post is part of a series recapping the October 2018 W3C Strategic Highlights and does not include significant updates since that report.) The Web Audio API enables synthesizing audio in the browser. Audio operations are performed with audio nodes, which are linked together to form a modular audio routing graph. Multiple sources — with different types of […]
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WWW2017 and W3Cx Webdev contests at Perth’s Festival of the Web

WWW2017 is in less than a month! The 26th edition of the annual World Wide Web Conference will be held in Perth, Australia, from 2 to 7 April 2017. This year again, W3C proposes a W3C track where conference attendees are invited to learn from, meet and discuss with W3C’s members and team experts. During […]
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I’d like to teach the web to sing

Here at the W3C Keio host in Japan we try to take part in local events to demonstrate progress of the Open Web Platform. Most recently was an event called Open Research Forum which showcases the work and research of Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus) and we chose to focus on web and music. […]
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This week: #web25 anniversary at #www2014, Real Work Modes of HTML WG, EU Data Retention Directive invalid, etc.

This is the 4-11 April 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media. W3C […]
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W3C honoured in 2014 net Awards technology nominations

It is with pride and delight that I share that W3C is well-represented among the 2014 net Awards nominees. 2014 is the year the Web turns 25, and the W3C turns 20. Twenty years of advancing the Web as an open platform through open standards, empowering billions to create, communicate and collaborate. Thank you for […]
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W3C published the Media Fragment URI document as a proposed recommendation

The Media Fragments Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Media Fragments URI 1.0 (basic). This document specifies the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs and explains how to handle them when used over the HTTP protocol. The syntax is based on the specification of particular name-value pairs that can be used in URI […]
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Ontology for Media Resources

The W3C Media Annotations Working Group has published a Recommendation of Ontology for Media Resources 1.0. The term “Ontology” is used in its broadest possible definition here: a core vocabulary. The intent of this vocabulary is to bridge the different descriptions of media resources, and provide a core set of descriptive properties. This document defines […]
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Sounding Out the Audio APIs

Read about the Audio WG's new audio API specs in a post by co-chairs Alistair MacDonald and Olivier Thereaux, and staff contact Doug Schepers.
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