25 October 2016 The  CSS Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of the  CSS Table Module Level 3 . This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system, optimized for tabular data rendering. In the table layout model, each display node is assigned to an intersection between a set of consecutive rows and a set of consecutive columns, themselves generated from the table structure and sized according to their content.

25 October 2016  The  Spatial Data on the Web WG , a collaboration between W3C and the  OGC , has today published two documents. The  Use Cases & Requirements  document is believed to be complete and underpins the WG’s considerable scope, motivating 3 standards in addition to today’s other publication, the  Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices . The latter has been rewritten substantially to build expressly on the more general  Data on the Web Best Practices , currently in  CR . The aim is to provide guidance that bridges the gap between the practices and mindsets in the two communities so that the Web is better able to make sense of location and geospatial systems are better able to benefit from non-spatial data on the Web. A good example of this can be seen in yesterday’s  announcement by Ireland’s mapping agency  that their geospatial information is now available as Linked Data. Driven largely by geospatial specialists,...