{"id":1029,"date":"2013-04-24T22:29:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2013-04-24T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T04:29:02","slug":"whats-the-w3c-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/whats-the-w3c-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the W3C Up To?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what&#8217;s the World Wide Web Consortium up to lately? It looks to me like they&#8217;re trying to level the playing field with native apps &ndash; here&#8217;s just a handful of some upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/\">standards<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2013\/WD-runtime-20130321\/\">Runtime and Security Model for Web Applications<\/a><div>How an application can be installed, updated and packaged. It also specifies how an app can be put into the background, be put back in the foreground, or woken up.<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/WD-push-api-20121018\/\">Push API<\/a><div>A way for application servers to send messages to webapps, whether or not the webapp is active in a browser window. Uses Server-Sent Events, SMS, SIP for Instant Messaging, or OMA Push.<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/WD-ambient-light-20121213\/\">Ambient Light Events<\/a><div>Events that correspond to a light sensor detecting the presence of a light<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/WD-proximity-20121206\/\">Proximity Events<\/a><div>Events that correspond to a proximity sensor detecting the presence of a physical object<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/CR-vibration-20120508\/\">Vibration API<\/a><div>Access the vibration mechanism of the hosting device<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/CR-battery-status-20120508\/\">Battery Status API<\/a><div>Information about the battery status of the hosting device<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2013\/WD-mediastream-recording-20130205\/\">MediaStream Recording<\/a><div>Recording video and audio<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/WD-webrtc-20120821\/\">WebRTC<\/a><div>Allows media and data to be sent over the network directly to another browser<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2013\/WD-contacts-manager-api-20130307\/\">Contacts Manager API<\/a><div>Manage contacts stored in the system&#8217;s address book<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2012\/WD-notifications-20120614\/\">Web Notifications<\/a><div>Displaying simple notifications to the user<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2013\/WD-web-alarms-20130205\/\">Web Alarms API Specification<\/a><div>Access to the device alarm settings<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n\t<li>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2013\/WD-WebCryptoAPI-20130108\/\">Web Cryptography API<\/a><div>Hashing, signature generation and verification, encryption and decryption<\/div>\r\n\t<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what&#8217;s the World Wide Web Consortium up to lately? It looks to me like they&#8217;re trying to level the playing field with native apps &ndash; here&#8217;s just a handful of some upcoming standards: Runtime and Security Model for Web ApplicationsHow an application can be installed, updated and packaged. It also specifies how an app can be put into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbateman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}