9 October 2014 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Regions Module Level 1 . The CSS Regions module allows content from one or more elements to flow through one or more boxes called CSS Regions, fragmented as defined in CSS3-BREAK. This module also defines CSSOM to expose both the inputs and outputs of this fragmentation. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Learn more about the Style Activity .

9 October 2014 Today the XQuery Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of XQuery 3.1 and XQueryX 3.1 . Additional supporting documents were published jointly with the XSLT Working Group : a Last Call Working Draft of XPath 3.1 , together with XPath Functions and Operators , XQuery and XPath Data Model , and XSLT and XQuery Serialization . XQuery 3.1 and XPath 3.1 introduce improved support for working with JSON data with map and array data structures as well as loading and serializing JSON; additional support for HTML class attributes, HTTP dates, scientific notation, cross-scaling between XSLT and XQuery and more. Comments are welcome through 7 November 2014 . Learn more about the XML Activity .

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 ...