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W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond

20 September 2012 | Archive

W3C announced today a Workshop on Do Not Track and Beyond, 26-27 November in Berkeley, California. W3C is currently creating standards that define mechanisms for expressing user preferences around Web tracking. The Working Group has produced drafts of Do Not Track specifications, concurrent with various implementations in browsers and Web sites and heightened press and policymaker attention. At the same time, public awareness of online privacy issues has increased.

Workshop participants will discuss the Consortium's next steps in the area of tracking protection and Web privacy. What have we learned from Do Not Track standardization and real-world implementations? What should we look at next and beyond DNT?

There is no fee to participate in this Workshop and W3C Membership is not required. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 19 October and space is limited. W3C thanks UC Berkeley and TRUST Science and Technology Center for hosting the meeting, and Yahoo! for sponsoring the event. Learn more about the W3C Privacy Activity.

For Review: Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM)

20 September 2012 | Archive

An updated Working Draft of Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) was published today by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) and Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG), through the joint WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force (Eval TF). WCAG-EM describes an approach for evaluating how websites -- including web applications and websites for mobile devices -- conform to WCAG 2.0. Learn more from the call for review e-mail and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

W3C Invites Implementations of The WebSocket API

20 September 2012 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of The WebSocket API. This specification defines an API that enables Web pages to use the WebSocket protocol (defined by the IETF) for two-way communication with a remote host. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

DOM Parsing and Serialization Draft Published

20 September 2012 | Archive

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of DOM Parsing and Serialization. This specification defines various APIs for programmatic access to HTML and generic XML parsers by web applications for use in parsing and serializing DOM nodes. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module

20 September 2012 | Archive

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module. The specification describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in any direction, and can "flex" their sizes, either growing to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent. Both horizontal and vertical alignment of the children can be easily manipulated. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to build layouts in two dimensions. Learn more about the Style Activity.

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