W3C

The Internationalization Working Group has updated the Candidate Recommendation of Encoding. For new protocols and formats, as well as existing formats deployed in new contexts, this specification requires the utf-8 encoding. It also defines a limited set of other legacy encodings so that user agents can convert to and from utf-8 in a standardized and therefore interoperable way.

The Geolocation Working Group has published a W3C Edited Recommendation of Geolocation API Specification 2nd Edition. This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device. The Edited Recommendation incorporates changes made against the 2013 Recommendation that resolve all the errata.

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Content Security Policy Level 2. This document defines a policy language used to declare a set of content restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the policy is enforced. Comments are welcome through 9 December 2016.

Today, W3C announced the start of its new W3Cx MOOC: CSS Introduction, designed in cooperation with the Microsoft Corporation. This 5-week long course will teach how to style your Web sites like a pro, with fonts, colors, layout, etc.

If you start now, you will be just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of CSS with us on 17 December and create a cool design to say “Happy Birthday, CSS!”. Learn more about W3Cx courses.

The Web Performance Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Resource Timing Level 2. This specification defines an interface for web applications to access the complete timing information for resources in a document.

W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee joins the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford as a Professor, as announced by Oxford on Thursday. Sir Tim graduated from the University of Oxford with a first-class degree in Physics in 1976 and returns 40 years later to become a member of the Department of Computer Science and carry out computer science research.

Tim continues to shape the future of the web in his role as Director of both the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the World Wide Web Foundation. Tim also continues as a full-time professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he is based, and where he leads the Decentralized Information Group research.