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                        <h2 class="entry-header">Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-07-13 - 2011-07-28</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. A lot of discussion about HTTP. The IETF has been meeting recently in Canada. <a href="http://annevankesteren.nl/">Anne Van Kesteren</a> covers what I have not in his <a href="http://blog.whatwg.org/weekly-end-of-last-call">report</a>.</p>

<p><a href="http://w3.org/html5/">HTML5</a> is still in Last Call but the <strong>last call is finishing on August 3, 2011</strong></p>

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<li>Rich Tibbett (Opera) proposed a <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/0331">Local-Networked Service [Discovery and] Messaging API</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/0286">Thoughts on restricting non-bugzilla-driven spec changes during Last Call</a></li>
<li>Aryeh Gregor published <a href="http://aryeh.name/spec/editing/editing.html">HTML Editing APIs specification</a> which is ready for <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-July/032630.html">implementers feedback</a></li>
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<li>A draft has been published for a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/charter-draft.html">Tracking Protection Working Group Charter</a> and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/07/privacy-ig-charter">Privacy Interest Group Charter</a>. Comments are welcome.</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/0443">Last Call of Page Visibility API</a>; deadline August 18</li>
<li>Anne van Kesteren <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg448">fixed the DOM Core Traversal</a> specification to adjust with the new requirements. </li>
<li>First Public Working Draft for the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/from-origin/">From-Origin Header specification</a></li>
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<li>Henry S. Thompson reviewed the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2011Jul/0055">XML parsing and external entities in HTML5</a></li>
<li>The content of the HTML/XML Task Force report is not clear enough for some participants. A <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-xml/2011Jul/thread.html#msg4">discussion</a> has been started on what should be the output and what are the difficulties.</li>
<li>Geoffrey Sneddon (Opera) asked a lot of question about <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/thread.html#msg261">Window security policy</a>.</li>
<li>Robert O&#8217;Callahan (Mozilla) gave background on <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/thread.html#msg248">SVG vs canvas performance</a></li>
<li>What is happening when a browser sends an <code>Accept:</code> HTTP header specifying a language that the server can&#8217;t provide?  Mark Nottingham is proposing to send either a <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg113">default format or a 406</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg112">1xx HTTP responses are non-final</a>. How do we clarify HTTP specification about it?</li>
<li>The issue on <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/thread.html#msg77">tab states</a> will be reopened because there is still no implementable proposal so far.</li>
<li>A thread interesting to read on the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jul/thread.html#msg202">correct and incorrect uses of canvas API</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg124">How the browsers redirect on non-GET methods</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg204">Motivate one-year limit for Expires</a></li>
<li>Aryeh Gregor (Google) brought <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg476">more use cases</a> to the long never-ending discussion on <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg0">mutation events</a>.</li>
<li>Clarification on the <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2011JulSep/thread.html#msg208">relationship between 401, Authorization and WWW-Authenticate in HTTP</a>.</li>
<li>If you wonder if the browsers have <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2011JulSep/0039">extension over the basic Event object</a>, Anne van Kesteren (Opera) has created a good list.</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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