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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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

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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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[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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[Survey] Mobile APIs

As part of the HTML5Apps standardization work, I have started developing a survey of mobile APIs. In this repository, I have begun documenting what APIs mobile platforms expose, in native ecosystems (iOS, android, Windows) and in Web-based ones (FirefoxOS, Chrome

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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.