W3C Web API Working Group

The W3C Web API Working Group is chartered to develop standard APIs for client-side Web Application development. This work will include both documenting existing APIs such as XMLHttpRequest and developing new APIs in order to enable richer web applications.

This group works in public, with details on the WebApps Wiki.

We appreciate feedback on our work and charter through the public-webapi@w3.org mailing list (archived) and the "less official" #webapi channel on the Freenode IRC server.

The group is working on the following documents (which are all available through our public CVS repository):

DOM Level 3 Events
current status is active WD
Clipboard Operations for the Web 1.0: Copy, Paste, Drag and Drop
current status is FPWD
editor is inactive, looking for new editor
ElementTraversal
current status is active WD
File Upload
current status is FPWD
editor is inactive, looking for new editor
Language Bindings for DOM Specifications
current status is active FPWD
Network Communication API 1.0
socket connections (e.g. implementing an IRC client in a web page and other cool stuff)
current status is active Editor's Draft
Progress Events 1.0
covers both uploading and downloading
current status is active WD
Remote Events for XML (REX) 1.0
current status is closed, REX 2.0 under development by Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group
Selectors API
current status is active WD
Window Object 1.0
current status is FPWD
editor is inactive, looking for new editor
The XMLHttpRequest Object
current status is active WD
(current editor's draft in CVS)

The group is planning on publishing the following documents at some point (hopefully soon!):

A specification for persistent storage.
Taking DOM Level 3 XPath to Recommendation status.
A second edition of DOM Level 3 Core.

The W3C Staff Contact for the Web API Working Group is Doug Schepers. The Chair of the Working Group is Charles McCathieNevile.

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