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Current Status of Web and TV

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Web and TV.

Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Group Notes

2011-12-01

Requirements for Home Networking Scenarios

This document lists the design goals and requirements that potential W3C recommendations should support in order to enable access to services and content provided by home network devices on other devices, including the discovery and playback of content available to those devices, both from services such as traditional broadcast media and internet based services but also from the home network.
1999-10-21

TV Broadcast URI Schemes Requirements

This document is an informational document and discusses the requirements posed to URI schemes for identifying resources in Television (TV) Broadcast environments. The document is the outcome of discussions on this subject by the W3C TV-Web Interest Group [TVWebIG, TVWebMail].

Typical use cases are summarized where TV Broadcast URIs are involved. A distinction is made between Global and Local usage. Also, a hierarchy of resource types is identified. Requirements related to the Global usage case are listed.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: Candidate Recommendations. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Candidate Recommendations

2003-05-14

CSS TV Profile 1.0

This specification defines a subset of Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 and CSS3 Module: Color specifications tailored to the needs and constraints of TV devices.