27 January 2015 Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0 has been published as a Working Group Note. The Internationalization Working Group discontinued work on this guide to provide HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML, to consider character encoding when producing web pages, and to understand how to choose and declare encodings, how and when to use character escapes, etc. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity .

27 January 2015 The Device APIs Working Group and Web Real-Time Communication Working Group have published two Working Drafts today. MediaStream Recording , which defines a recording API for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams. Mediastream Image Capture , which specifies the takePhoto() and grabFrame() methods, and corresponding camera settings for use with MediaStreams as defined in Media Capture and Streams. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

21 January 2015 W3C announced on 21 January 2015 a new Web of Things initiative to develop Web standards for enabling open markets of applications and services based upon connected sensors and actuators (the Internet of Things) and the Web of data. Open standards will be essential to realising the huge potential. We invite you to join the new Web of Things Interest Group and drive work on use cases, requirements, and best practices. The aim is to build a shared vision and identify specific opportunities for standardization. So far work on the Internet of Things has focused on the sensors and actuators and the associated communication technologies. Comparatively little attention has been given to what is needed for services to break free of today’s product silos. Web technologies are considered to be very promising, including the role of scripting languages like JavaScript for defining services. However, there is considerable wo...