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                        <h2 class="entry-header">Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-06-29 - 2011-07-05</h2>
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                              <p>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/open_web/">weekly</a> summary of the <a href="http://www.w3.org/wiki/Open_Web_Platform">Open Web Platform</a> is out. There was a few giant threads, be prepared to mutate any opinions about these events. Read also <a href="http://annevankesteren.nl/">Anne van Kesteren</a>'s <a href="http://blog.whatwg.org/weekly-component-mutation">report</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://w3.org/html5/">HTML5</a> is still in Last Call. </p>

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<li><p>Maciej Stachowiak (Apple) <a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/5BBC3EAB-DA46-4011-8B20-15369C7AF7E2@apple.com">unsatisfied</a> with the discussion on <a href="http://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/">Shadow DOM</a> API has started a new thread about <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJun/thread.html#msg1364">Component Models and Encapsulation</a></p></li>
<li><p>Anne van Kesteren (Opera) proposed to publish <a href="http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/from-origin/raw-file/tip/Overview.html">From-Origin</a> as a first public WD but there were a few comments from <a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/213E0EC97FE58F469BB618245B3118BB550C1B28A9@DEN-MEXMS-001.corp.ebay.com">Brad Hill</a> (eBay) about security, and from <a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/l937175f1u869oq3mbhi8m4ev5kii0tjks@hive.bjoern.hoehrmann.de">Björn Höhrmann</a></p></li>
<li><p>Aaron Colwell (Google) is proposing to <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-June/thread.html#32277">extend HTML5 video for adaptive streaming</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Anne van Kesteren (Opera) has proposed to <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-June/032255.html">reconcile document.URL and document.documentURI</a></p></li>
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<li><p><a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/4E0C53FF.7010305@nokia.com">Call</a> to publish <a href="http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/">WebIDL</a> as a Last Call Working Draft.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/4E0CA5B5.604@nokia.com">Call</a> to publish <a href="http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/">Widget Packaging and XML Configuration</a> as a Proposed Recommendation. You can read the <a href="http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/imp-report/">implementation report</a> for 4 products.</p></li>
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<li><p>The <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/thread.html#msg3">discussion</a> on immediate (Canvas) and retained (SVG) mode graphics is still going on. Kimberly Blessing (Comcast) <a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/D3216380E43BA14AA8322B3B9966CF11059EB8CA@PACDCEXMB01.cable.comcast.com">reminds</a> us that there is a big interest for Canvas from set-top boxes implementers. Some interesting questions about accessibility led Doug Schepers to write <a href="http://schepers.cc/retain-a11y-immediately">Retain Accessibility Immediately</a>. A more focused discussion on solving concrete cases would help. Right now, it is often a meta discussion about accessibility and graphics mode. This ties to discussions such as the <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/06/15/overview-of-pdf-js-guts/">Javascript PDF viewer</a> currently in development at Mozilla. Matt May (Adobe) gave a <a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/96000FCB2ADA2F4F84F49CC99202F19925EE26F9B6@NAMBX01.corp.adobe.com">list of Javascript projects using canvas</a> creating accessibility issues. </p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg0">Mutation events replacement</a> is the other big discussion of the week. First of all, lets&#8217;s go back to the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html">DOM Level 2 Event Model</a> specification published in 2000. The specification <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-mutationevents">says</a>: <q cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/events.html#Events-eventgroupings-mutationevents">Mutation Events The mutation event module is designed to allow notification of any changes to the structure of a document, including attr and text modifications.</q> Olli Pettay (Mozilla) <a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/4E09BB41.2040308@helsinki.fi">mentioned</a> that there was a <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641821">patch for Gecko</a> implementing a variant of a <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009AprJun/0745">proposal by Jonas Sicking in 2009</a>. Sergey Ilinsky (Ample SDK implementer) in June 2009 <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009AprJun/0747">asked</a> for <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2009AprJun/thread.html#msg747">Mutation events use cases</a>. There is <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2009AprJun/thread.html#msg95">another giant thread</a> about Mutation Events on the DOM mailing list that took place in June 2009 and we can find <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/actions/320">traces</a> in March 2009.</p></li>
<li><p>Some servers are unable to deal with empty filename parameter in XHR, Anne Van Kesteren (Opera) added a <a href="http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/#dom-formdata-append">blob for File objects</a> in this case.</p></li>
<li><p>James Kozianski (Google) <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-April/031309.html">proposed</a> in the past to add to the <cite><a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#custom-handlers">registerProtocolHandler specification</a></cite> the two functions: <code>isRegistered()</code> and <code>unregisterProtocolHandler()</code>. Ojab Vafai (Google) is <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-July/thread.html#32290">wondering</a> if the proposal makes sense. Timeless <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-July/032299.html">disagrees</a> with the benefit of this feature for users. Some people proposed to use the <a href="http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/perms/FeaturePermissions.html">notifications model</a> but there is a balance to maintain in terms of features when it comes to <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2011/06/permissions_for.html">user agreement interacting with Web applications</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-June/thread.html#31883">Discussion on AppCache</a>. The discussion seems to mix understanding about what is HTTP and AppCache with a bit of user interactions. </p></li>
<li><p>Should we have a specific HTTP Status code for <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011AprJun/thread.html#msg531">HTTP headers which are too big</a>? It raised the question of what is happening in the wild? What the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011AprJun/0531.html">servers</a> and clients do with <a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/299">big HTTP headers</a>?</p></li>
<li><p>Mark Nottingham <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg37">proposed</a> to clarify the 1xx response semantics in HTTP.</p></li>
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<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 &amp; Tools</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 July  6, 2011  8:16 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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