As we mentioned a couple of months ago, these APIs come with a stronger privacy-by-design approach (compared to e.g. DeviceOrientation) and bring a cleaner model for managing sensors (e.g. multiple ones, high performance)
The Generic Sensor API is a framework API to bring sensors to Web browsers w3.org/TR/generic-sensor/ - it tries to improve the disparate efforts and lessons learnt from them for previous sensors (geolocation, orientation and movement)
The Generic Sensor and its 5 associated concrete sensor (accerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope, orientation, ambient light) APIs have reached Candidate Recommendation status #timetoimplement
The APIs enable Web apps to integrate more closely with the surrounding environment.
Our friends @samsunginternet are organizing a cross-browser conference for Web developers next month in San Jose, CA samsungcreate.com/, with speakers from the @w3c community (disclaimer: @w3cdevs may or may not get a chance to be there)
This is an update to the Candidate Recommendation of #CSS Fonts Module level 3 published 5 years ago (!) w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/ which moves a few items to the next level (4 w3.org/TR/css-fonts-4/)
The charter has now been finalized w3.org/2018/03/jsonld-wg-cha… and is open for comments before final approval - the path to #JSONLD 1.1 is opening up!
Did you know that CSS Grid makes it easy to overlap things? We can use this common-in-print graphic design touch on the web now! (In a robust & flexible way). Let me show you how: youtube.com/EashgVqboWo
The @w3payments Working Group released yesterday its roadmap of work for 2018 lists.w3.org/Archives/Public… . This is the group developing new features to facilitate and improve payments in Web browsers.
TTML is notably used in the TV industry for delivering captions, subtitles, and other metadata for television material repurposed for the Web. For that work, TTML1.0 received an Emmy award @iemmys in 2016 w3.org/2016/01/emmyawardttml…
It builds upon CSS Text Decoration Module Level 3 drafts.csswg.org/css-text-de… from which it imports text-decoration-skip - which won't make it in Level 3 since it needs redefinition for extensibility, and brings more control on underlines and text shadows