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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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Trust and Permissions for the Open Web Platform

A meeting was held in Paris on 3-4 September 2014 to bring together browser vendors and other stakeholders to discuss next steps for work on trust and permissions for the Open Web Platform, based upon insights gained from experience with

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Aligning Cordova and W3C device APIs

Earlier this year, members of the Cordova and W3C teams started a process to better align W3C and Codova specifications. Indeed, Cordova (from which the Phonegap framework derives) is one of the major projects used to build hybrid applications —

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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

[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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[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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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.