The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of two Candidate Recommendations: Web Workers, which defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism. HTML5 Web Messaging, which defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents. 
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 The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. This draft contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS level 2, which builds on CSS level 1. The main extensions compared to level 2 are borders consisting of images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded corners and boxes with shadows. 

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 The Audio Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web Audio API. This specification describes a high-level JavaScript API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual processing will primarily take place in the underlying implementation (typically optimized Assembly / C / C++ code), but direct JavaScript processing and synthesis is also supported. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. i 

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 W3C announces today the opening of a new Russia Offices, as part of increasing inclusion and participation in W3C. The Office is hosted by the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (HSE), founded in 1992.  

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 W3C India office and IAMAI(Internet & Mobile Association of India) is organizing a Focused Conference on “Mobile Web Initiative in India” at New Delhi on 15 March 2012. The Conference would deliberate about the potential challenges in implementation of mobile applications in Indian languages . The special focus of conference will be on multilingual requirements in Mobile Web area and capturing the requirements for Indian languages as per W3C Mobile Web Standards including the support of Indian languages on mobile devices 

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