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HTML5Apps at MWC’15

The HTML5Apps/W3C team is present at the Mobile World Congress 2015. Dominique Hazaël-Massieux is on-site at Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain, from Monday 2 through Thursday 5 March 2015. The past year has seen significant milestones in W3C with

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[New Edition!] Standards for Web apps on mobile – January 2015

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, the January 2015 edition of the W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile includes a few changes and additions since October 2014. Notably, the document has been re-organized around the categories defined as Application

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[Web Payments] Next F2F meeting in Netherlands

The Web Payments Interest Group is organizing its second face-face meeting next month, on 2-4 February 2015, in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Hosted by Rabobank, this meeting is bringing a wide variety of stakeholders to help set the directions of work

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[New edition!] Standards for Web apps on mobile – October 2014

A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, the October 2014 edition of the W3C Standards for Web Applications on Mobile includes changes and additions since July 2014, notably emerging work such as: the Second Screen Presentation Working Group API to request

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HTML5 is a Web standard!

The W3C HTML5Apps team is very proud to relay the good news that HTML5 reached the W3C Web standard status today! HTML5 defines the fifth major revision of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the format used to build Web pages

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Web Payments Activity Launched

HTML5Apps/W3C announced today a new Web Payments Initiative to integrate payments seamlessly into the Open Web Platform. W3C calls upon all industry stakeholders –banks, credit card companies, governments, mobile network operators, payment solution providers, technology companies, retailers, and content creators–

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[HTML5] Proposed Recommendation – Call for Review

The W3C HTML Working Group, responsible for the HTML5 specification’s progress, has published a Proposed Recommendation of HTML5 (on 16 September 2014). This specification is intended to become a W3C Recommendation (or Web standard). The W3C Membership and other interested

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[HTML5] Call for Implementations

W3C is pleased to invite implementations of the HTML5 specification, which reached the Candidate Recommendation status on 31 July 2014. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to end no sooner than 28 August 2014. A preliminary implementation report is available, but

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[Web of Things] W3C Workshop Report

W3C published the report of the W3C Workshop on the Web of Things that was held on 25-26 June 2014, in Berlin (Germany). This workshop examined the opportunities for open Web standards for service platforms in the network edge and

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Trust and permissions in Web apps [HTML5Apps/W3C meeting]

The W3C SysApps Working Group is organizing a meeting on trust and permissions in Web apps in Paris on 3-4 September 2014. The two day meeting, hosted by Gemalto, will review the limitations of existing standards, and discuss insights gained

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Closing the Gaps
Native vs. HTML5?
The HTML5Apps project's goal is to close the gaps! Read more in the project's factsheet pdf file.
Project Funding
EU logo This project is funded by the European Union through the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2013-2015) under grant agreement n°611327 - HTML5 Apps.