{"id":97,"date":"2005-11-16T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T13:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/11\/w3c-web-apps"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:27:01","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T23:27:01","slug":"w3c-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/11\/w3c-web-apps","title":{"rendered":"W3C Web Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official, the W3C have finally launched their efforts to standardise\r\n\tAPIs and formats for web application development with the announcement of two\r\n\tnew Working Groups: The <em>Web APIs Working Group<\/em> and the <em>Web Application\r\n\tFormats Working Group<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2006\/webapi\/\">Web APIs Working Group<\/a> will work on standardising and improving upon,\r\n\tamong other things, XmlHttpRequest() and the window object; and reviving the\r\n\tstagnant DOM Level 3 work.  They will also produce guidelines for web applications\r\n\tand other educational material.  As discussed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2006\/webapi\/admin\/charter.html#dependencies\">Web\r\n\tAPIs WG Charter<\/a>, This\r\n\twill involve collaboration with other external groups including, among others,\r\n\tthe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatwg.org\/\">WHATWG<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/domscripting.webstandards.org\/\">WaSP\r\n\tDOM Scripting Task Force<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2006\/appformats\/\">Web Application Formats Working\r\n\t\tGroup<\/a> will develop languages for client\r\n\tside web applications.  In particular, they will work on standardising existing\r\n\tformats such as Mozilla&#8217;s XUL, Microsoft&#8217;s XAML, Macromedia&#8217;s MXML or Laszlo\r\n\tSystems&#8217; LZX.  They will also work on the XBL 2 specification and produce\r\n\t\tguidelines and other educational material as required.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you would like to be involved, or just keep up with their work,  there\r\n\tis of course a public mailing for each of them: <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-webapi\/\">public-webapi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-appformats\/\">public-apiformats<\/a>.\r\n\tAs mentioned on their respective WG home pages, they&#8217;re also intending to\r\n\tbe setting up blogs to discuss their work.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The W3C have finally launched their efforts to standardise APIs and formats for web application development.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}