Web Design and Applications   Web Design and Applications involve the standards for building and Rendering Web pages, including HTML, CSS, SVG, Ajax, and other technologies for Web Applications (“WebApps”). This section also includes information on how to make pages accessible to people with disabilities (WCAG), to internationalize them, and make them work on mobile devices. Web Architecture Web Architecture focuses on the foundation technologies and principles which sustain the Web, including URIs and HTTP. Semantic Web In addition to the classic “Web of documents” W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a “Web of data,” the sort of data you find in databases. The ultimate goal of the Web of data is to enable computers to do more useful work and to develop systems that can support trusted interactions over the network. The term “Semantic Web” refers to W3C’s vision of the Web of linked data. Semantic Web technologies enable people to create data stores on t...

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08 January 2013 The Web Cryptography Working Group has published three documents . A Working Draft of Web Cryptography API . This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications. A First Public 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 UA by means other than the generation, derivation, imporation functions of the Web Cryptog...

08 January 2013 The Government Linked Data Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Registered Organization Vocabulary . This is a vocabulary for describing organizations that have gained legal entity status through a formal registration process, typically in a national or regional register. It focuses solely on such organizations and excludes natural persons, virtual organizations and other types of legal entity or 'agent' that are able to act. It should be seen as a specialization of the more flexible and comprehensive Organization Ontology. Learn more about the eGovernment Activity .

03 January 2013 The Timed Text Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions (US) . This document, expected to become a Group Note, specifies the Simple Online Delivery Profile (US) of the Timed Text Markup Language (TTML). The primary goal of the profile is to establish a minimum level of interoperability between TTML10 and legacy caption formats employed in US markets, such as CEA608 and CEA708. Comments are welcome through 31 January. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity .

03 January 2013 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 . This module contains the features of CSS relating to text decoration, such as underlines, text shadows, and emphasis marks. Comments are welcome through 31 January. The group also published today a draft of CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3 . One of the fundamental design principles of CSS is cascading, which allows several style sheets to influence the presentation of a document. When different declarations try to set a value for the same element/property combination, the conflicts must somehow be resolved. The rules for finding the specified value for all properties on all elements in the document are described in this specification. Learn more about the Style Activity .