Selection API First Public Draft Published; Push API Draft Published

7 October 2014

The Web Applications Working Group has published two documents today:

• A First Public Working Draft of Selection API. This document is a preliminary draft of a specification for the Selection API and selection related functionality. It replaces a couple of old sections of the HTML specification, the selection part of the old DOM Range specification.
• A Working Draft of Push API. The Push API provides webapps with scripted access to server-sent messages, for simplicity referred to here as push messages, as delivered by push services. A push service allows a webapp server to send messages to a webapp, regardless of whether the webapp is currently active on the user agent. The push message will be delivered to a Service Worker, which could then store the message’s data or display a notification to the user. This specification is designed to promote compatibility with any delivery method for push messages from push services to user agents.

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