Five documents published by the Web Applications Working Group

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The Web Applications Working Group has published five documents today:

  • Last Call Working Draft of The WebSocket API. This specification defines an API that enables Web pages to use the WebSocket protocol (defined by the IETF) for two-way communication with a remote host. Comments are welcome through 14 June.
  • Last Call Working Draft of Indexed Database API.This document defines APIs for a database of records holding simple values and hierarchical objects. Each record consists of a key and some value. Moreover, the database maintains indexes over records it stores. An application developer directly uses an API to locate records either by their key or by using an index. A query language can be layered on this API. An indexed database can be implemented using a persistent B-tree data structure. Comments are welcome through 21 June.
  • First Public Working Draft of Input Method Editor API. This specification defines an “IME API” that provides Web applications with scripted access to an IME (input-method editor) associated with a hosting user agent.
  • First Public Working Draft of URL. This specification defines the term URL, various algorithms for dealing with URLs, and an API for constructing, parsing, and resolving URLs.
  • Group Note of XBL 2.0. XBL (the Xenogamous Binding Language) describes the ability to associate elements in a document with script, event handlers, CSS, and more complex content models, which can be stored in another document. This can be used to re-order and wrap content so that, for instance, simple HTML or XHTML markup can have complex CSS styles applied without requiring that the markup be polluted with multiple semantically neutral div elements.

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