20 December 2013 The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published an updated draft of the WAI resource Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility . Easy Checks helps you assess if a Web page addresses accessibility. It provides simple steps for anyone who can use the Web; no accessibility knowledge or skill is required. The checks cover just a few accessibility issues and are designed to be quick and easy, rather than definitive. Learn about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

20 December 2013 W3C will be present at CeBIT 2014 , in Hannover, Germany. The main topic of CeBIT 2014 is Datability which relates in many ways to upcoming W3C work e.g. in the W3C Data Activity and the Web of Things . W3C is looking forward to meeting you on 11 March, at the DFKI booth. Consider to schedule a meeting with: Phil Archer , Data Activity Lead; Alan Bird , Global Business Development Leader; Bernard Gidon , Business Development Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA); Dave Raggett , team contact in several Ubiquitous Web Working Groups and chair of the Web of Things Community Group; and Georg Rehm , W3C German-Austrian Office Manager. Meeting slots are limited and decided on a first come, first served basis.

14 December 2013 The W3C Mobile Web 2: Programming Applications online course is back! Now open for registration and to start on 13 January 2014, this course covers all techniques for programming successful mobile Web applications that can ship both online and in application stores. You will have access to high quality content material, be trained by a first-class expert, and learn step by step . Register before 25 December 2013 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus , the W3C online training for Web developers.

11 December 2013 Today W3C launched a new Data Activity to lead the Web to a new level of data interoperability. The Activity includes two new groups: CSV on the Web Working Group , whose mission is to provide technologies whereby data dependent applications on the Web can provide higher interoperability when working with datasets using the CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or similar formats. Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group , whose mission is (1) to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers; (2) to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data; (3) to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation. The Data Activity subsumes and expands upon the work done in the Semantic Web and eGovernment Activities...

3 December 2013 The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Shapes Module Level 1 . CSS Shapes describe geometric shapes for use in CSS. For Level 1, CSS Shapes can be applied to floats. A circle shape on a float will cause inline content to wrap around the circle shape instead of the float’s bounding box. Comments are welcome by 7 January 2014. Learn more about the Style Activity .

3 December 2013 The CSS Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Object Model (CSSOM) . CSSOM defines APIs (including generic parsing and serialization rules) for Media Queries, Selectors, and of course CSS itself. Learn more about the Style Activity .

2 December 2013 The Internet Architecture Board and W3C just announced a Workshop, Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring , 28 February – 01 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is co-located with the 89th IETF Conference that will take place from 02 – 07 March at the Hilton Metropole in central London (UK). The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for network manageability and security. This data is captured and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network manageability and security but still limit data capture and correlation. The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C work so as to be able to improve or strengthen the Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop report in the form of an IAB RFC wi...

27 November 2013 W3C announced today a Workshop, Linking Geospatial Data , 5-6 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is hosted by Google. Many of the best data-driven Web applications have geospatial information at their core. Very often the common factor across multiple data sets is the location data, and maps are crucial in visualizing correlations between data sets that may otherwise be hidden. It’s this desire to work with multiple data sets in different formats about different topics and link those with the powerful technologies used in geospatial information systems that is behind the linking geospatial data workshop. How can geographic information best be integrated with other data on the Web? How can we discover that different facts in different data sets relate to the same place, especially when ‘place’ can be expressed in different ways and at different levels of granularity? W3C membership is not required to participa...

26 November 2013 The CSS Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published two Working Drafts today. A Working Draft of Filter Effects Module Level 1 . Filter effects are a way of processing an element’s rendering before it is displayed in the document. Typically, rendering an element via CSS or SVG can be conceptually described as if the element, including its children, are drawn into a buffer (such as a raster image) and then that buffer is composited into the elements parent. Filters apply an effect before the compositing stage. Examples of such effects are blurring, changing color intensity and warping the image. Although originally designed for use in SVG, filter effects are a set a set of operations to apply on an image buffer and therefore can be applied to nearly any presentational environment, including CSS. They are triggered by a style instruction (the filter property). This specification describes filters in a...

25 November 2013  W3C opens registration for a brand new W3C course on Responsive Web Design . This course leads students step by step through an approach that focuses on HTML and CSS to make Web sites work across diverse viewport sizes. Sponsored by Intel® XDK and taught by acclaimed trainer Frances de Waal , this Responsive Web Design course starts 29 November for 4 weeks, and is free of charge . Learn more about W3DevCampus , W3C’s online training for Web developers.

There are 9 main points you should focus on: • Keywords • URL Text • Description, Meta tags • Title tags • Image Names • ALT tags • Heading tags • Content • Hyperlinks The focus of these 8 steps is to load your pages with as many "keywords" as possible. Keywords Keywords are the most important aspect of good SEO, this is where you tell the Search Engines what your site is about. Search Engines use an algorithm to determine the "Keyword Density" of your site, this formula is: Total Words ÷ Keywords= Keyword Density Use this formula on your competitors web site and see how they score, then aim to beat that score. Choose keywords that best relate to the information, products or services that you are offering. For instance, if I am designing a site about "Web Design", I want my site to include the words "Web Design" as many times as possible. However, most people don't just search for just one word, they type phra...

19 November 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Transitions . This document introduces new CSS features to enable implicit transitions, which describe how CSS properties can be made to change smoothly from one value to another over a given duration. Learn more about the Style Activity .

8 November 2013 The Model-Based User Interfaces Working Group has published a Working Draft of MBUI – Abstract User Interface Models . Model-Based User Interface Design facilitates interchange of designs through a layered approach that separates out different levels of abstraction in user interface design. This document covers the specification of Abstract User Interface Models, by defining its semantics through a meta-model, and an interchange syntax (expressed as XML Schema) for exchanging Abstract User Interface Models between different user interface development environments. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

7 November 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of CSS Style Attributes . Markup languages such as HTML and SVG provide a style attribute on most elements, to hold inline style information that applies to those elements. This draft describes the syntax and interpretation of the CSS fragment that can be used in such style attributes. Learn more about the Style Activity .

6 November 2013 The Web Applications Working Group has published four Working Drafts: Streams API . This specification provides an API for representing binary data and string data in web applications as a Stream object, as well as programmatically building and reading its contents. This includes a Stream, a StreamConsumeResult and a StreamReadType interfaces, extensions to XMLHttpRequest and to URL.createObjectURL and URL.revokeObjectURL. This API is designed to be used in conjunction with other APIs and elements on the web platform, notably: File, XMLHttpRequest, postMessage, and Web Workers. Quota Management API . This specification defines an API to manage usage and availability of local storage resources, and defines a means by which a user agent (UA) may grant Web applications permission to use more local space, temporarily or persistently, via various different storage APIs. Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Sp...

5 November 2013 The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) today published the updated Last Call Working Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide , which describes how browsers and other user agents should support WAI-ARIA (the Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification); specifically, how to expose WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility API s. Comments are welcome through 6 December. Learn more in the call for review e-mail and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

24 October 2013 The Geolocation Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Geolocation API Specification . This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

18 October 2013 The Web Applications Working Group has published a Group Note of Selectors API Level 2 . Selectors, which are widely used in CSS, are patterns that match against elements in a tree structure. The Selectors API specification defines methods for retrieving Element nodes from the DOM by matching against a group of selectors, and for testing if a given element matches a particular selector. It is often desirable to perform DOM operations on a specific set of elements in a document. These methods simplify the process of acquiring and testing specific elements, especially compared with the more verbose techniques defined and used in the past. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

15 October 2013 The Media Annotations Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of API for Media Resources 1.0 . This specification defines an API to access metadata information related to media resources on the Web. The overall purpose is to provide developers with a convenient access to metadata information stored in different metadata formats. The API provides means to access the set of metadata properties defined in the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0 specification. These properties are used as a pivot vocabulary in this API. The core of this specification is the definition of API interfaces for retrieving metadata information in synchronous and asynchronous. It also defines interfaces for structured return types along with the specification of the behavior of an API implementation. Comments are welcome through 25 November. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity .

10 October 2013 The Web Events Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Touch Events . The Touch Events specification defines a set of low-level events that represent one or more points of contact with a touch-sensitive surface, and changes of those points with respect to the surface and any DOM elements displayed upon it (e.g. for touch screens) or associated with it (e.g. for drawing tablets without displays). It also addresses pen-tablet devices, such as drawing tablets, with consideration toward stylus capabilities. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

10 October 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Text Module Level 3 . This CSS3 module defines properties for text manipulation and specifies their processing model. It covers line breaking, justification and alignment, white space handling, and text transformation. Comments are welcome through 07 November. Learn more about the Style Activity .

10 October 2013 The Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web Audio API . This specification describes a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual processing will primarily take place in the underlying implementation (typically optimized Assembly / C / C++ code), but direct JavaScript processing and synthesis is also supported. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

9 October 2013 The XML Core Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.1 . Many programming languages provide an inclusion mechanism to facilitate modularity. Markup languages also often have need of such a mechanism. This specification introduces a generic mechanism for merging XML documents (as represented by their information sets) for use by applications that need such a facility. The syntax leverages existing XML constructs – elements, attributes, and URI references. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity .

9 October 2013 The Internationalization Working Group has published a Group Note of Use Cases & Exploratory Approaches for Ruby Markup . This document was designed to support discussion about what is needed in the HTML5 specification, and possibly other markup vocabularies, to adequately support ruby markup. It describes a number of use cases associated with ruby usage, and then examines a number of possible ruby markup approaches for each use case, listing pros and cons for each approach. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity .

7 October 2013 The leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure globally met in Montevideo, Uruguay, to consider current issues affecting the future of the Internet. They issued today a Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation , signed by African Network Information Center (AFRINIC), American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society (ISOC), Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC), Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), W3C. For related information, see Open Stand , a movement dedicated to promoting a proven set of principles that establish The Modern Paradigm for Standards.

3 October 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of CSS Style Attributes . Markup languages such as HTML and SVG provide a style attribute on most elements, to hold inline style information that applies to those elements. This draft describes the syntax and interpretation of the CSS fragment that can be used in such style attributes. Comments are welcome through 31 October. Learn more about the Style Activity .

3 October 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3 . This CSS module describes how to collate style rules and assign values to all properties on all elements. By way of cascading and inheritance, values are propagated for all properties on all elements. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. CSS Fonts Module Level 3 . This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. The description of font load events was moved into the CSS3 Font Load Events module. Learn more about the Style Activity .

3 October 2013 The HTML Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Using WAI-ARIA in HTML . Using WAI-ARIA in HTML is a practical guide for developers on how to add accessibility information to HTML elements using the Accessible Rich Internet Applications ( WAI-ARIA ) specification, which defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It is developed by the HTML Accessibility Task Force in coordination with the HTML Working Group and the WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group ( PFWG ).Learn more about the HTML Activity and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

3 October 2013 W3C published today the final report of the Workshop on the Publishing and the Open Web Platform that was held 16-17 September 2013 in Paris. W3C thanks IRI for hosting the event, Intel and Adobe for their sponsorship, and INRIA for their support. The W3C Workshop in Paris was the third in a series of industry consultation events held by W3C. The goal of this Workshop was first to identify difficulties faced by existing professional publishing organizations in using tools based on the Open Web platform, including the production of printed books, and second to find ways to work on eliminating or ameliorating those difficulties. We received approximately fifty statements of interest and position papers for the two-day event, and approximately sixty people attended the Workshop. Part of the workshop were panels around a selected subset of the submissions, part was organized as open discussions. Many of the is...

1 October 2013 The Device APIs Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: Ambient Light Events . This specification defines a means to receive events that correspond to a light sensor detecting the presence of a light. Proximity Events . This specification defines a means to receive events that correspond to a proximity sensor detecting the presence of a physical object. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

1 October 2013 The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide . This is draft documentation mapping HTML elements and attributes to accessibility API Roles, States and Properties on a variety of platforms. It provides recommendations on deriving the accessible names and descriptions for HTML elements. It also provides accessible feature implementation examples. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

1 October 2013 The XML Query Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XQueryX 3.0 . This document defines an XML Syntax for XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language. Comments are welcome through 22 October. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity .

1 October 2013 W3C has published the September 2013 edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context. A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition of the document includes changes and additions since March 2013, such as the newly chartered Web and Mobile IG (which will own the next iteration of the document), performance improvements through better scrolling integration and network request priorities, new early proposed approaches for responsive images and filesystem management. The report also shows graphically recent editorial activity for all the specs that it tracks Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices .

1 October 2013 W3C published today the final report of the August Social Standards: The Future of Business Workshop , organized jointly with the OpenSocial Foundation. W3C thanks AppFusions for hosting the event, and IBM and the Open Mobile Alliance for their sponsorship. This Workshop provided a way for the social business and technical community to create a roadmap for standardizing the currently fragmented social landscape in order to make social a first-class part of the Open Web Platform. Participants discussed how social can revolutionize the enterprise and next steps for technologies such as OpenSocial and ActivityStreams, both of which are in early stages of revision. This workshop was the culmination of the activity of the Social Business Community Group . Participants of the Workshop agreed that W3C should create a Working Group defining standards around social, ranging from APIs to profile federation, as well as a co...

30 September 2013 W3C announces today the new charter for the HTML Working Group , until the end of June 2015. The HTML Group mission remains the development of the HTML language and its associated APIs. This new charter includes an experiment where the HTML Working Group can publish some of their Recommendation-track specifications under a permissive license. This is intended to encourage collaboration and make it easier to reuse materials. See the charter and FAQ Regarding HTML Working Group Charter License Experiment for more details. The group remains on schedule to complete HTML 5.0 to W3C Recommendation in 2014 . Learn more about the HTML Working Group .

26 September 2013 Don’t miss it! Register now for the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course that starts next Monday, 30 September 2013. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. This new course edition has been significantly enhanced since the June 2013 course. It features additional sections, including a JavaScript crash course, advanced techniques regarding time based animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by numerous examples. Learn more about W3DevCampus , the official W3C online training for Web developers.

26 September 2013 The Protocols and Formats Working Group today published a First Public Working Draft of Accessible Rich Internet Applications WAI-ARIA 1.1 . WAI-ARIA provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and it can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content, particularly web applications. It is introduced in the WAI-ARIA Overview . WAI-ARIA 1.1 is expected to include only a few changes from 1.0. The primary change in this Draft is the addition of of aria-describedat . Learn about the current status of WAI-ARIA 1.0 and 1.1 , and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

The Timed Text Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1) (Second Edition) . This document specifies Timed Text Markup Language (TTML), Version 1, also known as TTML1, in terms of a vocabulary and semantics thereof. The Timed Text Markup Language is a content type that represents timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information. It is intended to be used for the purpose of transcoding or exchanging timed text information among legacy distribution content formats presently in use for subtitling and captioning functions. In addition to being used for interchange among legacy distribution content formats, TTML Content may be used directly as a distribution format, for example, providing a standard content format to reference from a <track> element in an HTML5 document, or a <text> or ...

The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 . The technology described in this document “Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0“ enhances the foundation to integrate automated processing of human language into core Web technologies. ITS 2.0 bears many commonalities with its predecessor, ITS 1.0 but provides additional concepts that are designed to foster the automated creation and processing of multilingual Web content. ITS 2.0 focuses on HTML, XML-based formats in general, and can leverage processing based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF), as well as the Natural Language Processing Interchange Format (NIF). Comments are welcome through 22 October. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity .

The Device APIs Working Group has published a Working Draft of Network Service Discovery . This specification defines a mechanism for an HTML document to discover and subsequently communicate with HTTP-based services advertised via common discovery protocols within the current network. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

It has always been about being noticed. People dress well or do something bizarre in order to be noticed or make a statement. To get ahead in life or business one needs to be at the top, first in line. Now more often than not, the World Wide Web to functions along the same principles. With tough competition between websites, articles, and e-commerce sites what makes one more successful than others is the position a site gets on search engines. The higher the ranking the larger the number of hits or traffic to the site. To achieve a higher position websites use the strategy of SEO optimization and content is written such that it is keyword dense. It is not as simple as using words repeatedly you need to know which keywords are relevant to your website and pages. Once you have a master list ensure that : •    Match keyword tag with content. Ensure that the keyword meta tag has around 900 characters or 25 words. •    Ensure that the keyword density in between...

20 September 2013 The RDF Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of TriG . The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web. This document defines a textual syntax for RDF called TriG that allows an RDF dataset to be completely written in a compact and natural text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and datatypes. TriG is an extension of the Turtle [turtle] format. Comments are welcome through 11 October. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

20 September 2013 The CSS Working Group and the SVG Working Group have published a First Public Working Draft of DOMMatrix interface . This specification describes a transformation matrix interface with the dimension of 3x2 and 4x4. The transformation matrix interface replaces the SVGMatrix interface from SVG. It is a common interface used to describe 2D and 3D transformations on a graphical context for SVG, Canvas 2D Context and CSS Transforms. Learn more about the Style Activity and the Graphics Activity

20 September 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published two Working Drafts today: CSS Ruby Module Level 1 . “Ruby” are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This module describes the rendering model and formatting controls related to displaying ruby annotations in CSS. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. CSS Syntax Module Level 3 . This module describes, in general terms, the basic structure and syntax of CSS stylesheets. It defines, in detail, the syntax and parsing of CSS - how to turn a stream of bytes into a meaningful stylesheet. Learn more about the Style Activity .

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18 September 2013 Today W3C appointed two new Chairs to the Tracking Protection Working Group : Justin Brookman and Carl Cargill. They join continuing co-Chair Matthias Schunter. The Working Group updated two draft DNT specifications this week. Matthias Schunter announced this week a stable plan for reaching Last Call . Learn more about the Tracking Protection Working Group .

17 September 2013 The W3C Multimodal Interaction Working Group (MMI-WG) is pleased to announce the second webinar on "Developing Portable Mobile Applications with Compelling User Experience using the W3C MMI Architecture" , to be held on September 24, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Prior to this second webinar, the MMI-WG held the W3C Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development on July 22-23 in New York Metropolitan Area, US, and identified that distributed/dynamic applications depend on the ability of devices and environments to find each other and learn what modalities they support. Therefore this second webinar will focus on the topic of device/service discovery to handle Modality Components of the MMI Architecture dynamically. The discussion during the webinar will interest anyone who wants to take advantage of the dramatic increase in new interaction modes, whether for health care, financial services, broadcasting, automotive, gaming, or consumer devic...

13 September 2013 The Tracking Protection Working Group has updated two Working Drafts: Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) . This specification defines the technical mechanisms for expressing a tracking preference via the DNT request header field in HTTP, via an HTML DOM property readable by embedded scripts, and via properties accessible to various user agent plug-in or extension APIs. It also defines mechanisms for sites to signal whether and how they honor this preference, both in the form of a machine-readable tracking status resource at a well-known location and via a "Tk" response header field, and a mechanism for allowing the user to approve exceptions to DNT as desired. Tracking Compliance and Scope . This specification defines the meaning of a Do Not Track (DNT) preference and sets out practices for websites to comply with this preference. Learn more about the Privacy Activity .

11 September 2013 W3C is present at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF'13) , happening now in San Francisco, USA. Through talks in developer sessions and discussions at the W3C booth, W3C explains the many advantages of using the Open Web Platform technologies , and how the W3DevCampus training program helps developers to get trained on these Web technologies. W3DevCampus is the only official training program and features a W3C HTML5 course now open for registration. Meet Bernard Gidon at the W3C booth at IDF'13 to learn more and then enroll to become an HTML5 expert!

10 September 2013 The RDF Working Group and the JSON-LD Community Group published the Candidate Recommendation of JSON-LD 1.0 , and JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API . This signals the beginning of the call for implementations for JSON-LD 1.0. JSON-LD harmonizes the representation of Linked Data in JSON by describing a common JSON representation format for expressing directed graphs; mixing both Linked Data and non-Linked Data in a single document. The syntax is designed to not disturb already deployed systems running on JSON, but provide a smooth upgrade path from JSON to JSON-LD. It is primarily intended to be a way to use Linked Data in Web-based programming environments, to build interoperable Linked Data Web services, and to store Linked Data in JSON-based storage engines. The JSON-LD 1.0 specification describes the JSON-LD language in a way that is useful to authors. It also provides the core grammar of the language for implementers. The JSON-LD 1.0 Algo...

03 September 2013 The Web Real-Time Communication Working Group and the Device APIs Working Group have published an updated Working Draft of Media Capture and Streams . This document defines a set of JavaScript APIs that allow local media, including audio and video, to be requested from a platform. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

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28 August 2013 Register now to the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course , to start 30 September 2013. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. This new course edition has been significantly enhanced since the June 2013 course. It features additional sections, including a JavaScript crash course, advanced sections on time based animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by numerous examples. Register before September 8 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus , the W3C online training for Web developers.

22 August 2013 The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML . This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognised by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of defintions that is used by HTML. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

22 August 2013 The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a Working Draft of WebCrypto Key Discovery . This specification describes a JavaScript API for discovering named, origin-specific pre-provisioned cryptographic keys for use with the Web Cryptography API. Pre-provisioned keys are keys which have been made available to the user agent by means other than the generation, derivation, importation functions of the Web Cryptography API. Origin-specific keys are keys that are available only to a specified origin. Named keys are identified by a name assumed to be known to the origin in question and provisioned with the key itself. Learn more about the Security Activity .

22 August 2013 The RDFa Working Group today published three RDFa Recommendations. RDFa lets authors put machine-readable data in HTML documents. Using RDFa, authors may turn their existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content. Today's publications were: HTML+RDFa 1.1 , which defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules. The group also published two Second Editions for RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 , folding in the errata reported by the community since their publication as Recommendations in June 2012; all changes were editorial. The group also updated the a RDFa 1.1 Primer . Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

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15 August 2013 The Web Applications Working Group has published two Working Drafts: Push API . This specification defines a “Push API” that provides webapps with scripted access to server-sent notifications, for simplicity referred to here as push notifications, as delivered by push services. Push services are a way for application servers to send messages to webapps, whether or not the webapp is active in a browser window. Input Method Editor API . This specification defines an “IME API” that provides Web applications with scripted access to an IME (input-method editor) associated with a hosting user agent. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

W3C published W3C Highlights - August 2013 , a survey of select recent work and upcoming priorities. The report includes: progress and work ahead in making the Open Web Platform a success on mobile devices, news in Web for All areas like accessibility and internationalization, how W3C is collaborating more closely with various industries that are being transformed by the Web, liaison updates, and new opportunities for more people to get involved in W3C.

06 August 2013 The HTML Working Group updated two Candidate Recommendations today: HTML5 , which defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. HTML Canvas 2D Context , which defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas element. The 2D Context provides objects, methods, and properties to draw and manipulate graphics on a canvas drawing surface. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

23 July 2013 The RDF Working Group has published two Last Call Working Drafts today: A Last Call Working Draft of RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax . The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web. Comments are welcome through 6 September. A Last Call Working Draft of RDF 1.1 Semantics . This document describes a precise semantics for the Resource Description Framework 1.1 and RDF Schema. It defines a number of distinct entailment regimes and corresponding patterns of entailment. It is part of a suite of documents which comprise the full specification of RDF 1.1. Comments are welcome through 6 September. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

23 July 2013 The XML Query Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of XQuery 3.0: An XML Query Language . XML is a versatile markup language, capable of labeling the information content of diverse data sources including structured and semi-structured documents, relational databases, and object repositories. A query language that uses the structure of XML intelligently can express queries across all these kinds of data, whether physically stored in XML or viewed as XML via middleware. This specification describes a query language called XQuery, which is designed to be broadly applicable across many types of XML data sources. Comments are welcome through 13 August. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity .

“White hat” SEO optimizers are those who are looking to improve the user experience. They work to create valuable content, a seamless user interface, and ultimately strive to manifest the best overall experience in their niche for each visitor. These are precisely the folks Google is looking to reward with Penguin 2.0. What’s good for search engines is also good for users, and that means Google will not rest if webspam continues to reach top ranking positions in their search results. As a rule, white hat tactics also indicate good marketing strategies. If a company employs integrity and care in their SEO, they likely carry that attitude through all their business practices, using creativity to entice customers, not trickery. Although Google continues to be the search engine powerhouse, sites like Bing are providing healthy competition, motivating the leader to ensure their user experience is superior. That means highlighting the best sites available for every last search. And that mea...

04 July 2013 The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Indexed Database API . This document defines APIs for a database of records holding simple values and hierarchical objects. Each record consists of a key and some value. Moreover, the database maintains indexes over records it stores. An application developer directly uses an API to locate records either by their key or by using an index. A query language can be layered on this API. An indexed database can be implemented using a persistent B-tree data structure. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .

02 July 2013 The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) invites comments on the updated draft of Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility , which has new sections on Forms and Plain Content View. Easy Checks helps you assess if a Web page addresses accessibility. It provides simple steps for anyone who can use the Web; no accessibility knowledge or skill is required. The checks cover just a few accessibility issues and are designed to be quick and easy, rather than definitive. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

02 July 2013 Registration is now open for the online symposium on User Modeling for Accessibility to be held on 15 July 2013. Researchers, practitioners, designers, application developers, users with disabilities, and others are invited to participate. The symposium will analyze different methods and implementations of user modeling and their potential usage for improving accessibility. This includes the design, creation, storage, and usage of user models, in particular in web browsers, applications, authoring tools, and other aspects of the Web. For details and registration, see User Modeling for Accessibility - Online Symposium . Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

02 July 2013 W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context. A deliverable of the webinos project, this edition highlights some of the HTML 5.1 features that are most relevant on mobile, integrates more specs from the SysApps Working Group. It also features a printer-friendly PDF version , and makes it easier to contribute to test suites via github. Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices .

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