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Announcing Web Platform Docs

08 October 2012 | Archive

WebPlatform.org W3C, in collaboration with Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, and others, announced today the alpha release of Web Platform Docs (docs.webplatform.org). This is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation. With Web Platform Docs, web professionals will save time and resources by consulting with confidence a single site for current, cross-browser and cross-device coding best practices.

"People in the web community — including browser makers, authoring tool makers, and leading edge developers and designers — have tremendous experience and practical knowledge about the web," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "Web Platform Docs is an ambitious project where all of us who are passionate about the web can share knowledge and help one another."

Watch the welcome video, read the press release and W3C Member testimonials, blog post from Doug Schepers, and get started on Web Platform Docs.

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 Draft Published

23 October 2012 | Archive

The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Working Draft of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes called the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is designed to foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML5, XML based formats in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF), and language technology applications like machine translation or named entity annotation. In addition to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert ITS attributes to NIF is provided. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

Call for Review: High Resolution Time Proposed Recommendation Published

23 October 2012 | Archive

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of High Resolution Time. This specification defines a JavaScript interface that provides the current time in sub-millisecond resolution and such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments. Comments are welcome through 20 November. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Last Call: Server-Sent Events

23 October 2012 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Server-Sent Events. This specification defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS. Comments are welcome through 13 November. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Last Call: An organization ontology

23 October 2012 | Archive

The Government Linked Data Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of An organization ontology. This document describes a core ontology for organizational structures, aimed at supporting linked data publishing of organizational information across a number of domains. It is designed to allow domain-specific extensions to add classification of organizations and roles, as well as extensions to support neighbouring information such as organizational activities. Comments are welcome through 25 November. Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.

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