W3C Demonstrates Impact of Open Web Platform at Mobile World Congress 2013

12 February 2013

W3C invites media, analysts, and other attendees of Mobile World Congress to meet with us 25-28 February and learn ways the Open Web Platform is impacting industry at large. W3C will showcase demonstrations of HTML5 and other open W3C Web technologies at its booth in App Planet, Stand 8.1H49. CEO Jeff Jaffe, W3C staff, and participating W3C Members will be available as expert resources for media stories and analyst reports on how the Web is changing mobile, television, advertising, games, publishing, automotive, health care, and other industries. Read the media advisory.

CSS Fonts Module Level 3, CSS Transitions Drafts Published

12 February 2013

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published two Working Drafts today:

• CSS Fonts Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically.
• CSS Transitions. CSS Transitions allows property changes in CSS values to occur smoothly over a specified duration.

Learn more about the Style Activity.

Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 (Second Edition) Draft Published

31 January 2013

The Timed Text Working Group has published a Working Draft of Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 (Second Edition). This document specifies the Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) in terms of a vocabulary and semantics thereof. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.

Navigation Timing 2 Draft Published

31 January 2013

The Web Performance Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Navigation Timing 2. This specification defines a unified interface to store and retrieve high resolution performance metric data related to the navigation of a document. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements Draft Published

31 January 2013

The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Linked Data Platform Use Cases and Requirements. A set of user stories, use cases, scenarios and requirements that motivate a simple read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using RDF. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

W3C Announces TPAC 2013 in China

30 January 2013

Each year the W3C community gathers for a week of joint meetings and discussion of technical challenges that have a broad impact on the Web. W3C, and our exclusive Host Tencent, are pleased to announce today that TPAC2013 will be held in Shenzhen, China 18-22 November. "Tencent is excited to work with W3C to bring TPAC to China" said HuoTao (Hugo) Wang, Assistant General Manager for Tencent. "We believe this will be the first of many exciting events for W3C in China driven by the new Host at Beihang University."
Nearly 500 people attended TPAC 2012 in France and we anticipate at least that many attendees in China. This is a landmark event for W3C and an opportunity to bring the global Web community together for closer cooperation. Learn more about W3C Membership meetings.