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W3C Starts Web Payments Standards Work

Work on payments at W3C was supported in part by the HTML5Apps project, and today, the project’s team is pleased to announce that W3C just launched the Web Payments Working Group to make payments easier and more secure on the

Posted in Payment, Standardization

[News Release] HTML5Apps paves the way to future W3C payment standards and advances mobile Web standardization roadmap

The two-year EU-funded HTML5Apps project proudly looks back to its achievements. The project, ending in September 2015 successfully accelerated the development of standard Web technologies required to make HTML5 apps competitive with native apps, specifically in the areas of Web

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[Web Payments] Standards prep. meeting in NYC

W3C is aiming to streamline Web Payments with new standards that will provide a uniform way for merchants to integrate payments into the Web with a level playing field for payment service providers and value added services. The HTML5Apps project initiated this work

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[Web Payments] Use Cases Published

The W3C Web Payments Interest Group has just published a set of Web Payments Use Cases (v1.0) as W3C First Public Working Draft (FPWD). The interest group, formed in October 2014 thanks to the work initiated by the HTML5Apps project,

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

The HTML5Apps project is glad to announce the a new edition of the “Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap”. This July 2014 edition notably features a new section on payment, which tracks the work initiated by

Posted in HTML5, Mobile, Payment, Standardization

[Web Payments] Activity Update

Long time no update on the Web Payments Activity! After a successfull workshop in March, the last months have been busy and I want to thank again all those who participated in the discussions and contributed to the development of the

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Web Payments Workshop Report Now Published

W3C is pleased to publish its report from the March Workshop on Web and Payments. This document summarizes the activities and results of the first W3C Workshop on Web Payments. Participants recorded key outputs from the meeting, including a recommendation

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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.