Web Platform Working Group
Our Mission
We continue the development of the HTML language, providing specifications that enable improved client-side application development on the Web, including application programming interfaces (APIs) for client-side development and markup vocabularies for describing and controlling client-side application behavior.
The W3C Team Contact for the Web Platform Working Group is
Yves Lafon and
Xiaoqian Wu .
The Co-Chairs of the Working Group are
Adrian Bateman ,
Léonie Watson and
Charles McCathieNevile .
TPAC 2016 Registration Now Open
The Web Platform Working Group will meet throughout TPAC week, and focus on a different area of work each day:
If you'll be at TPAC and expect to attend any of these meetings, please add your name to the attendees list.
We also invite all TPAC participants to register for this event and make your hotel reservation .
Editing Meeting on 29 July 2016
This will be hosted by Google in the Bay Area:
Service Workers Meeting on 28-29 July 2016
This meeting will be hosted by Mozilla in Toronto:
What is HTML?
HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages and
its elements form the building blocks of all websites.
What are APIs?
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software inter
face that exposes access to some internal functionality of a piece of software
for use by programmers, to get access to specific information, to trigger speci
al behavior, or to perform some other action. The APIs that the WebApps WG dev
elops are typically client-side script APIs, for use in browsers and similar us
er agents (as opposed to server-side APIs, for example).