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First Public Working Drafts: EPUB 3.3

  12 January 2021 The  EPUB 3 Working Group  has published four First Public Working Drafts today for EPUB 3.3. This technology defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content — including HTML, CSS, SVG, and other resources — for distribution in a single-file container. The specification represents the third major revision and, in particular, a revision of the  EPUB 3.2 document  published by the EPUB 3 Community Group. This new version of the specification is now on a W3C Recommendation Track. The four documents published by the Working Group are: The  EPUB 3.3  specification defines the authoring requirements for EPUB Publications and represents the third major revision of the standard. The  EPUB 3.3 Reading Systems  specification defines the conformance requirements for EPUB 3...

W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group

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  The W3C Advisory Committee has  elected  the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): Amy Guy (Digital Bazaar), Sangwhan Moon (W3C Invited Expert), Theresa O’Connor (Apple, Inc.) and Lea Verou (W3C Invited Expert). They join co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee and continuing participants, Daniel Appelquist (Samsung Electronics; co-Chair), Rossen Atanassov (Microsoft Corporation), Hadley Beeman (W3C Invited Expert), Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (Intel Corporation) and Peter Linss (W3C Invited Expert; co-Chair). Yves Lafon continues as staff contact. Many thanks for contributions to the TAG to the departing participants, David Baron (W3C Invited Expert) and Alice Boxhall (Google), whose terms end at the end of this month. The TAG is a special group within the W3C, chartered under the  W3C Process Document , with stewardship of the Web architecture. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarif...