W3C

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of CSS Namespaces Module. This CSS Namespaces module defines the syntax for using namespaces in CSS. It defines the @namespace rule for declaring the default namespace and binding namespaces to namespace prefixes, and it also defines a syntax that other specifications can adopt for using those prefixes in namespace-qualified names. Comments are welcome through 8 September. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The XML Core Working Group has published a Group Note of Associating Schemas with XML documents 1.0 (Second Edition). This document allows schemas using any schema definition language to be associated with an XML document by including one or more processing instructions with a target of xml-model in the document's prolog. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

The Web Performance Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Resource Timing. This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to HTML elements. Comments are welcome through 15 September. The Working Group also published the First Public Working Draft of Performance Timeline, which defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to navigation and elements. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The RDF Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Turtle. Turtle has long been popular among Semantic Web developers as an intuitive and powerful representation of RDF data. The standardization of Turtle will encourage its use in other standards such as R2RML as well as further its adoption in Semantic Web tool chains. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Progress Events. The Progress Events specification defines an abstract event interface that can be used for measuring loading progress. Comments are welcome through 01 September. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The HTML Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of HTML5: Edition for Web Authors. This document is a strict subset of the full HTML5 specification that omits user-agent (UA) implementation details. It is targeted toward Web authors and others who are not UA implementors and who want a view of the HTML specification that focuses more precisely on details relevant to using the HTML language to create Web documents and Web applications. Because this document does not provide implementation conformance criteria, UA implementors should not rely on it, but should instead refer to the full HTML5 specification. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The XML Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of XML Signature Best Practices. This document collects best practices for implementers and users of the XML Signature specification. Most of these best practices are related to improving security and mitigating attacks, yet others are for best practices in the practical use of XML Signature, such as signing XML that doesn't use namespaces, for example. Learn more about the Security Activity.