Reading List

This page contains a list of (mostly W3C) documents in no particular order that may be of interest for the current status of discussions at the WG. Salt 'n pepper at taste, and update it over time…

There is also an (experimental for now) nicer “roadmap” for W3C documents related to publishing, providing automatic information on the current status. There are also others such (evolving) “roadmaps” that might become interesting:

• Media Technologies. This covers such features as media control, distribution, orchestration,…
• Web Applications on Mobile. Not all features may be relevant, but issues on lifecycle or data storage should be of interest.
• Security technologies. Obvious…

W3C documents

See also a sexier verion

• Resource Hints (Working Draft): https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/
• Distributed and syndicated content (TAG finding): https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/distributed-content/
  • there is an Intro blog post
• HTML Extensions (proposed WG Note): https://w3c.github.io/html-extensions
• Publishing and Linking on the Web (WG Note): https://www.w3.org/TR/publishing-linking/
• Web App manifest (editors' draft): https://w3c.github.io/manifest/
• WICG Web Packaging Format (explainer): https://github.com/WICG/webpackage
  • W3CTAG's Packaging on the Web (TAG version; officially marked as obsolete): https://w3ctag.github.io/packaging-on-the-web/
  • Two more references to the "Why not Zip?" question:
    • Some notes in the TAG document
    • Issue no. 45 in the webpackage repo
• Widget URI scheme (W3C Working Group Note 13 March 2012): https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-widgets-uri-20120313/
• Selectors and States, W3C Working Group Note: https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/NOTE-selectors-states-20170223/
• Timed Text Markup Language 2: https://w3c.github.io/ttml2/spec/ttml2.html
• Web Video Text Tracks format (WebVTT): https://w3c.github.io/webvtt/
• Web Animation: https://w3c.github.io/web-animations/ ; see also a short tutorial on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Animations_API/Using_the_Web_Animations_API

IETF

• Identifier Link Relation IETF draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandesompel-identifier-00
• Web Linking: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8288
• URI Design and Ownership: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7320

Other Sources of Note

• Signposting Conventions for identification: http://signposting.org/conventions/
• Jake's thoughts on transitions: https://github.com/jakearchibald/navigation-transitions