Announcing W3C Publishing Working Group’s updated scope and goals

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On 18th January, W3C Publishing Working Group published their updated scope and goals

The PWG will be focusing on two things: how to define an ordered sequence of web resources, and how to express metadata about that collection of resources.

The W3C defines web publishing as: “A web publication is a single logical entity that may be built from numerous web resources, with a defined order to the content– chapter two always comes after chapter one.”

The official documentation states that the team will now work in a very modular fashion “to meet the needs of a particular segment of the industry.” Taking into consideration that user agent should remember where a user stopped reading, allow users to customize the display of the publication; the team will move the descriptions of these affordances, user agent behaviors, and use cases to their Use Cases and Requirements document.

Lastly, they will be updating the timeline of their milestones and deliverables to reflect this focus- change . Users can check main WP spec and the WP Explainer in the next few days for more information on the same. Users can look forward to an upcoming specification that will define an audiobook format -usable on both the web and in packaged contexts.

Other goals:

The HTMLelement now has a semantic meaning. It represents a paragraph-level thematic break to depict a transition to another topic within a section of a reference book.
Accessibility information for each of the 26 components in The Australian Government Design System
A second, inner border color can be obtained for an element with background-clip.

You can head over to W3C’s official documentation for more insights on this news.