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Keeping the complexity of IMSC documents under control

The IMSC Recommendation includes an Hypothetical Render Model (HRM) that constrains document complexity, allowing authors of subtitles and captions to know that they are not generating subtitles that will overload the players. An open source implementation of the HRM for IMSC Text Profile documents has been made available. IMSC users and implementers are invited to […]
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W3C Strategic Highlights: Strengthening the Core of the Web (Web Performance)

  (This post is part of a series recapping the October 2018 W3C Strategic Highlights and does not include significant updates since that report.) The mission of the Web Performance Working Group is to provide methods to observe and improve aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs. The groups continues to make progress with its deliverables […]
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Strategic Highlights, what W3C has done — and where we’re heading

W3C’s work enables the Web to scale to meet the new challenges and opportunities while selected technologies and features continue to give way to incredible core innovation once again. Next week W3C will host its annual Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting in Lyon, France at which our CEO, Jeff Jaffe, will present our Strategic […]
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Ask us anything on WebAssembly

I am happy to announce that we are partnering with Catchpoint who are helping us set up our first “Ask Me Anything” session, in partnership with O’Reilly. The first W3C AMA session takes place on Zoom.us this Thursday, December 14, at 1800Z, and the topic is WebAssembly. WebAssembly is poised to help change the landscape […]
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Launching the WebAssembly Working Group

We’d like to announce the formation of a WebAssembly Working Group. For over two years the WebAssembly W3C Community Group has served as a forum for browser vendors and others to come together to develop an elegant and efficient compilation target for the Web. A first version is available in 4 browser engines and is on […]
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W3C Strategic Highlights for Spring 2017 and Advisory Committee Meeting

W3C held its annual meeting late April in Beijing. The theme of the meeting was “Vision for W3C“. During the meeting we released the W3C Strategic Highlights for Spring 2017, a comprehensive report of W3C’s vision and focus; had informative discussions from industry presenters and keynote speakers, heard about priorities of the W3C Advisory Board […]
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Efficient representation for Web formats

EXI is a format that sends an efficient data stream of parse events that can have noticeable, measurable savings in CPU, memory and bandwidth. Test results have consistently shown EXI advantages for XML, HTML, and now CSS/JavaScript minify, over gzip and zip formats. You may want to look at EXI overview presentation for CSS. Since […]
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Digital Signage and HTML5: Seminar Report

On March 26, W3C Keio host held a “Digital Signage and HTML5” seminar with the support of the Japanese Digital Signage Consortium. With a capacity crowd of 115 attendees it was a full afternoon of presentations, discussions and high expectations. As well as an introduction to the work towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic […]
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This week at W3C: DRM in HTML5, Web Designer beta, W3C 19th anniversary, etc.

This is the 27 September – 4 October 2013 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 […]
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