Four Web Application API Drafts Published

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The Web Applications Working Group has published four First Public Working Drafts of specifications for APIs that enhance the open Web platform as a runtime environment for full-featured applications:

  • Web Storage provides APIs for persistent client-side data storage by Web applications.
  • Web Workers defines an API for enabling thread-like operations (using message-passing) in Web applications, so that certain application tasks can be run in parallel.
  • Web Sockets API provides an API for full-duplex communication between a Web application and a remote host.
  • Server-Sent Events defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events.

The Web Storage, Web Sockets API, and Server-Sent Events specifications were previously published as parts of the HTML 5 specification, but will now each become Recommendation-track deliverables within the Web Applications Working Group. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

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