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Web Share API is a W3C Recommendation

  The  Web Applications Working Group  has published  Web Share API  as a W3C Recommendation. This specification defines an API for sharing text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the user’s choice. The available share targets are not specified here; they are provided by the user agent. They could, for example, be apps, websites or contacts.

Updated Candidate Recommendations: UI Events KeyboardEvent code and key Values

  The   Web Applications Working Group   invites implementations of the following two updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshots: UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values  defines the values for the KeyboardEvent.code attribute, which is defined as part of the UI Events Specification [ UIEvents ]. The code value contains information about the key event that can be used to identify the physical key being pressed by the user. UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values  defines the  key attribute values  that must be used for  KeyboardEvent ‘s  key  attribute, which is defined as part of the UI Events Specification [ UIEvents ].

EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C Recommendation

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  The  EPUB 3 Working Group  has published  EPUB 3.3 ,  EPUB Reading Systems 3.3  and  EPUB Accessibility 1.1  as W3C Recommendations, as part of the  Digital Publishing activity . EPUB 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 content specification, which is what publishers, creators, or authors are really interested in, is now separate from the reading system specification that is of primary interest for implementers only. Editorial changes made the documents more readable. Accessibility of EPUB publications was an essential part of the group’s activity. As a result, the EPUB Accessibility specification has been updated and, for the first time in the history of EPUB, is now an in...