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                        <h2 class="entry-header">Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-10-31 - 2011-11-06</h2>
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                              <p>Last week, there was the annual <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/TPAC/">W3C TPAC</a>. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group</a> met  (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/03-html-wg-minutes">day 1</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/04-html-wg-minutes">day 2</a>) and many other groups for discussing general issues. I introduced the <a href="http://www.w3.org/wiki/Open_Web_Platform">Open Web Platform</a> <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/open_web/">weekly</a> summary and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/03-html-wg-minutes#item10">asked feedback</a> on how to improve it or if I should drop it. I got mostly positive feedback and I will improve it in the next few weeks.</p>

<p>There are a lot of things to say about the <a href="http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2011">fruitful meetings</a> we had during this week. Maybe another time.</p>

<h3>HTML5</h3>

<p>The <code>time</code> element was dropped from the specification, but the community <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Nov/0011">requested to be restored</a>.</p>

<p>There is yet <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Oct/thread.html#msg146">another difficult discussion</a> on extensibility and how to handle it properly. Time to time, this topic will happen. This time, it is related to <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/av_param">specifying arbitrary  attributes for Audio-Video</a>.</p>

<p>The <code>hgroup</code> element is not satisfying. Kornel Lesiński is proposing to replace it with the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Nov/0042"><code>hsub</code></a> element with a simpler content model.</p>

<p>(<strong>Do not copy that code in your pages</strong>.)</p>

<pre><code>&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Title&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;hsub&gt;Subtitle&lt;/hsub&gt;

&lt;h1&gt;Second Title&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
    &lt;hsub&gt;Second Subtitle 1&lt;/hsub&gt;
    &lt;hsub&gt;Second Subtitle 2&lt;/hsub&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;article&gt;
    &lt;hsub&gt;The Magical&lt;/hsub&gt;
    &lt;h1&gt;Title&lt;/h1&gt;
    &lt;hsub&gt;That Has&lt;/hsub&gt;
    &lt;hsub&gt;Multiple Subtitles&lt;/hsub&gt;
&lt;/article&gt;
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<h3>AppCache</h3>

<p>When <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html#offline">developping offline applications</a>, we are using a <code>manifest</code> file containing the file to cache.  There is a proposal to add syntax to the manifest that would to <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14702">allow always request files when online</a>, but not when offline. There is also a proposal to be less <a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14704">dependent on the URL and have an additional identifier</a> to cope with minted URLs which tries to avoid caching (which IMHO is circular).</p>

<h3>Canvas</h3>

<blockquote><p>one feature Web developers are asking for is the ability to draw DOM objects to an HTML canvas. — Robert O'Callahan, Mozilla — <a href="http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/11/drawing-dom-content-to-canvas.html">Drawing DOM Content To Canvas</a></p></blockquote>

<h3>DRM</h3>

<p>There is a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/11/03-html-wg-minutes#item04">discussion brought to the HTML WG by the WebTV task force</a> to know if there is a possibility to add a mechanism to protect content. There is no resolution yet. On this same topic, an interesting article has been published on the history of the different systems proposed in the past.</p>

<blockquote><p>There are more than a few reasons digital rights management (DRM) has been largely unsuccessful. But the easiest way to explain to a consumer why DRM doesn&rsquo;t work is to put it in terms he understands: &ldquo;What happens to the music you paid for if that company changes its mind?&rdquo; It was one thing when it was a theoretical question. Now it&rsquo;s a historical one. — <a href="http://opensource.com/life/11/11/drm-graveyard-brief-history-digital-rights-management-music">The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music</a></p></blockquote>

<h3>HTTP</h3>

<p>A new draft has been published by James Snell for <a href="http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-snell-http-prefer-04.txt">Prefer Header for HTTP</a>. The Prefer request-header is used to indicate that particular server behaviors are preferred by the user-agent, but not required for successful completion of the request.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011OctDec/0152.html">version 17 of HTTPbis drafts</a> has been published too.</p>

<h3>Last Call Working Drafts</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-touch-events-20111027/">Touch Events version 1 Last Call Working Draft</a>. Comment deadline is November 17.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-webstorage-20111025/">Web Storage Last Call Working Draft</a>. Comment deadline is November 15.</li>
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<h2>Tools</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.andismith.com/blog/2011/11/25-dev-tool-secrets/">25 Secrets of the Browser Developer Tools</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2011Nov/0006">patch for HTML5 in Tidy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rdf-translator.appspot.com/">RDF Translator</a> is a multi-format conversion tool for structured markup.</li>
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<p>This week, the theme of <a href="http://annevankesteren.nl/">Anne Van Kesteren</a>&rsquo;s <a href="http://blog.whatwg.org/weekly-time-data">report</a> is mainly about <code>&lt;time&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;data&gt;</code>.</p>

<p>This column is written by <a href="http://www.la-grange.net/karl/">Karl Dubost</a>, <a href="http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/">working</a> in the <a href="http://dev.opera.com/">Developer Relations team</a> at <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera Software</a>.</p>
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                       <p class="postinfo">Filed by <a href="http://my.opera.com/karlcow/blog/">Karl Dubost</a> on November  7, 2011  9:36 PM in <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/technology/html/">HTML</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/open_web/">Open Web</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/w3cqa_news/w3c_life/">W3C Life</a><br />
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Steve Faulkner </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c753608">#</a> 2011-11-07</span>
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<p>thanks for the update Karl!</p>

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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Shelley </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c753668">#</a> 2011-11-07</span>
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<p>Thanks for providing a good summary of the activity. </p>

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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Hadley Beeman </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c756184">#</a> 2011-11-08</span>
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<p>Cheers for this-- and for the new Twitter feed, Karl!</p>

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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>doubi </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c759200">#</a> 2011-11-08</span>
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<p>Groovy - &lt;3 succinct weekly updates like this. Will be back (as long as <a href="http://twitter.com/0penWeb" rel="nofollow">@0penWeb</a> helps by reminding me...)</p>

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