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<h2>What are APIs?</h2>
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<p>An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software interface that exposes access to some internal functionality of a piece of software for use by programmers, to get access to specific information, to trigger special behavior, or to perform some other action. The APIs that the WebApps WG develops are typically client-side script APIs, for use in browsers and similar user agents (as opposed to server-side APIs, for example).</p>
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<p>The word <em>widget</em> is used to mean many things, from a form control to a particular piece of interactive software in a larger application. A W3C Widget is specifically a packaged web application of any degree of complexity, from a simple form to a shared calendar to a game to a full-blown productivity application. W3C Widgets are made using the same technologies as regular applications, such as HTML, CSS, SVG, and Javascript, with all the resources packaged up in a zip file, to be run on your desktop or mobile device (or on a server), with all the same functionality that you expect from a webapp, including server access. When a user gives permission, Widgets also have access to local system resources, as well, just like a local application.</p>
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<p>The W3C Web Applications (WebApps) Working Group is <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/webapps/charter/" title="WebApps Working Group Charter">chartered</a> to develop specifications for webapps, including standard APIs for client-side development, and a packaging format for installable webapps. This work will include both documenting existing APIs such as <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> and developing new APIs in order to enable richer <em>web applications</em>.</p>
<p>This group works in public, with details in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/WorkMode">WG's<em> Work Mode</em> document</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/">WG's Wiki</a>.</p>
<p>A detailed list of this group's <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/PubStatus">publications and their status</a> (available in one of the W3C's <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webaps/wiki/WorkMode#CVS_and_Mercurial">CVS or Mercurial</a> systems.)</p>
<p>The W3C Team Contact for the WebApps Working Group is
<a href="http://www.w3.org/People/all#schepers">Doug Schepers</a>.
The Co-Chairs of the Working Group are
<a href="mailto:art.barstow@nokia.com">Art Barstow</a> and
<a href="mailto:chaals@opera.com">Charles McCathieNevile</a>.</p>
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<h3><a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/TPAC2011">TPAC 2011</a></h3>
<p>The WebApps WG will have a face-to-face meeting at the annual W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting, held this year in Santa Clara, CA.</p>
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