News

Shift into High Gear on the Web: Workshop on Web and Automotive

04 September 2012 | Archive

Rome, cars W3C announces today a Shift into High Gear on the Web, a Workshop Web and Automotive, 14-15 November 2012, in Rome (Italy). The event is hosted by Intel/OTC (Open Source Technology Center) and sponsored by Webinos.

People today enjoy applications and services from multiple networked devices: notebook and desktop computers, smart phones, tablets, and Internet TVs. With our increasingly mobile lifestyles, it’s time to include the connected car in this mix. The Web is the ideal platform to offer a rich range of benefits and value-added services to drivers and passengers. The goal of this workshop is to explore how to make these benefits a reality.

W3C invites automotive manufacturers and service providers, wireless carriers, insurance companies, application and solution developers and others to participate in this discussion at the workshop. W3C membership is not required to participate. Please submit a statement of interest by 12 October and learn more about participation.

This Workshop has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme.

Web Cryptography API Draft Published

13 September 2012 | Archive

The Web Cryptography Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Web Cryptography API. This specification describes a JavaScript API for performing basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and encryption and decryption. Additionally, it describes an API for applications to generate and/or manage the keying material necessary to perform these operations. Key storage is provided for both temporary and permanent keys. Access to keying material is contingent on the same origin policy. Uses for this API range from user or service authentication, document or code signing, and the confidentiality and integrity of communications. Learn more about the Security Activity.

Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions (US) Draft Published

13 September 2012 | Archive

The Timed Text Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions (US). This document defines the behavior expected of a presentation processor using the player constraints for such an online delivery profile. The Simple Online Delivery profile is focused on streamlined delivery of closed captions on the Internet. This interoperability profile supports core TTML features to deliver content originating legacy formats such as CEA-608 and -708 content, and is targeted primarily for delivery in US markets. The Simple Delivery Profile for Closed Captions focuses interoperability using TTML 1.0 to support delivery of closed captions for video content. Other profiles based on TTML 1.0 may target other types of subtitles such as on-screen text or graphics. This interoperability profile is a proper subset of TTML 1.0 plus features required to support US Government closed captioning requirements for online presentation. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.

Three drafts published by the CSS Working Group

11 September 2012 | Archive

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published three Working Drafts today.

  • CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 3. This module contains the features of CSS for conditional processing of parts of style sheets, conditioned on capabilities of the processor or the document the style sheet is being applied to. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are allowing nesting of certain at-rules inside '@media', the addition of the '@supports' and '@document' rules for conditional processing.
  • CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 4. This module contains the features of CSS level 4 relating to the <image> type and replaced elements. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS Image Values and Replaced Content Module Level 3. The main extensions compared to level 3 are several additions to the ‘<image>’ type, additions to the ‘<gradient>’ type, extensions to the ‘image()’ function, definitions for interpolating several ‘<image>’ types, and several properties controlling the interaction of replaced elements and CSS's layout models.
  • CSS Transforms. CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional or three-dimensional space. This specification is the convergence of the CSS 2D transforms, CSS 3D transforms and SVG transforms specifications.

Learn more about the Style Activity.

HTML+RDFa 1.1 Draft Published

11 September 2012 | Archive

The RDFa Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML+RDFa 1.1.This specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Last Call: Constraints of the Provenance Data Model

11 September 2012 | Archive

The Provenance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Constraints of the Provenance Data Model. This document defines a subset of PROV instances called valid PROV instances. The intent of validation is ensure that a PROV instance represents a history of objects and their interactions which is consistent, and thus safe to use for the purpose of logical reasoning and other kinds of analysis. Valid PROV instances satisfy certain definitions, inferences, and constraints. These definitions, inferences, and constraints provide a measure of consistency checking for provenance and reasoning over provenance. They can also be used to normalize PROV instances to forms that can easily be compared in order to determine whether two PROV instances are equivalent. Validity and equivalence are also defined for PROV bundles and documents. Comments are welcome through 10 October. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

More news… RSS Atom

Talks and Appearances Header link

Events Header link