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(DIR) Post #AjnqeQcV7agopImDw0 by w3c@w3c.social
2024-07-10T19:28:09Z
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📣 We are opening today the W3C TPAC Inclusion Fund applications, until 31 July. This is designed for people from an under-represented group who wouldn’t be able to attend or meaningfully contribute to TPAC without financial support.We are grateful to this year’s sponsors W3C and an anonymous donor.https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-offers-an-inclusion-fund-for-tpac-2024/#w3ctpac #w3c #inclusion #diversity #webstandards
(DIR) Post #Ajr58B41VLss6Gbr2O by w3c@w3c.social
2024-07-12T12:00:04Z
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The Internationalization WG has published Devanagari Layout Requirements and Bengali Layout Requirements as a Group Draft Notes.Devanagari Layout Requirements describes or points to requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Devanagari script. Bengali Layout Requirements outlines requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Bengali script. https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/DNOTE-deva-lreq-20240709/ https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/DNOTE-beng-lreq-20240709/
(DIR) Post #AkvfrpGcIS9zEOAVxA by w3c@w3c.social
2024-08-13T16:00:24Z
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"Societal, ethical, and technical impacts of digital identities" by https://w3c.social/@simone introduces an analysis of Digital Identities and their various architectural models. The paper focuses on the impact of identities on the Web and users, particularly on privacy, security, and human rights, the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact and how collaboration among various stakeholders can mitigate these threats.https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/societal-ethical-and-technical-impacts-of-digital-identities/
(DIR) Post #AlUYd4yZi3pUSfLerY by w3c@w3c.social
2024-08-30T12:00:08Z
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The Federated Identity Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Federated Credential Management API, a Web Platform API that allows users to login to websites with their federated accounts in a privacy preserving manner. https://www.w3.org/news/2024/first-public-working-draft-federated-credential-management-api/
(DIR) Post #AmLXcCvWrQbSFqouaO by w3c@w3c.social
2024-09-24T16:31:16Z
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We are happy to share that today the Social Web Foundation launched with a mission to help the fediverse to grow healthy, multi-polar, and financially viable.We are looking forward to continuing to support the work that @evan @tomcoates @mallory are planning in the new non-profit foundation for expanding and improving ActivityPub and the fediverse. We are delighted that to the Foundation will be becoming a W3C Member. https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/
(DIR) Post #AnpxBMfnQT9VROPOjY by w3c@w3c.social
2024-11-07T16:00:17Z
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The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations incorporate digital products and services into broader sustainability reporting initiatives. These guidelines will enable people to better understand the Internet’s impact on sustainability reporting. Learn more at:https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-web-interest-group-is-formed/
(DIR) Post #Ao4VnoUwXSrBOgHD1s by w3c@w3c.social
2024-11-15T16:00:01Z
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📆 28 November 2024Simone Onofri will speak on "Threat Modeling for Age Verification Systems with W3C Verifiable Credentials" at Threat Modeling Connect (TMC) Barcelona 🇪🇸 https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2024/threat-modeling-for-age-verification-systems-with-w3c-verifiable-credentials/
(DIR) Post #Aqmpr2eM6ZD1UDUqHo by w3c@w3c.social
2025-02-04T19:55:00Z
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The Verifiable Credentials Working Group invites implementations of the following Candidate Recommendation Snapshot: Controlled Identifiers (CIDs) v1.0.A controlled identifier document contains cryptographic material and lists service endpoints for the purposes of verifying cryptographic proofs from, and interacting with, the controller of an identifier. https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-controlled-identifiers-cids-v1-0/
(DIR) Post #AtdzQQkHCHkuhMCbJo by w3c@w3c.social
2025-04-30T15:20:20Z
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On 30 April 1993, CERN's Directors declared that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) that Tim Berners-Lee @timbl had first proposed in 1989, were to be put in the Public Domain.We are grateful to CERN and to Tim for this world changing decision which has enabled the W3C community to create open, accessible, international web standards which make the web work, for everyone. https://home.web.cern.ch/science/computing/birth-web/licensing-web
(DIR) Post #AtgF236UVa36twv7Sa by w3c@w3c.social
2025-05-01T12:01:44Z
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"Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed" has been published as a W3C Draft finding by @tag "Third-party (AKA cross-site) cookies are harmful to the web, and must be removed from the web platform. This finding explains why they must be removed, and examines the challenges in removing them. We highlight some use cases that depend on third-party cookies and offer some examples of designed-for-purpose technologies that can replace them."https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/
(DIR) Post #AvfIPR2RGSJR0Ykzo0 by w3c@w3c.social
2025-06-30T18:10:16Z
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The Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This spec defines a core subset of MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-mathml-core/
(DIR) Post #AwpFWgfrAp2WkWM81I by w3c@w3c.social
2025-08-04T12:01:41Z
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Last week W3C published our Vision for a web for humanity. Our CEO @seth shared his thoughts on W3C's core Vision and its goals"Vision for W3C allows us to take deliberate steps to address the many harmful unintended and undesirable consequences that arose from the web’s amazing success, and to continue to provide the consistent architecture that enables a World Wide Web that works, for everyone."Read more at:https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-to-reach-durable-and-sustainable-success/
(DIR) Post #AwtcxCtz35LboFPypE by w3c@w3c.social
2025-08-06T12:00:46Z
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Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world, in 1991, by @timbl when he said "Try it"Billions have taken up his call to use the web. W3C, as a steward of this initial gift since 1994, is realizing our vision of making the web work, for everyone – a web designed for the good of its users, that is safe and secure.https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-to-reach-durable-and-sustainable-success/
(DIR) Post #AzT2viK3hIiBGbfjMm by w3c@w3c.social
2025-10-22T12:31:16Z
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W3C tech in the news:"Rethinking Identity Security: The Rise of Wallet-Based Credentials" at the WSJ"Self-Sovereign Identity ExplainedSSI rests on three principles that are already standardized in recommendations issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that focus on decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials."https://deloitte.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/rethinking-identity-security-the-rise-of-wallet-based-credentials-4af8471e
(DIR) Post #AzT7iG1K72MfUmJNmS by w3c@w3c.social
2025-10-22T12:31:18Z
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In case you missed it, check out W3C's own Dominique Hazaël-Massieux @dontcallmeDOM on one of our favorite podcasts, Igalia Chats @igalia with @bkardell and @Meyerweb to discuss ways that we try to involve developers and developer input into standards "Wishes, Signals, and the Shape of Standards" https://www.igalia.com/chats/dominique
(DIR) Post #AzVH75YdRBRwBmjCRE by w3c@w3c.social
2025-10-23T12:30:50Z
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The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Environment Variables Module Level 1. This specification defines the concept of environment variables and the env() function, which work similarly to custom properties and the var() function, but are defined globally for a document. https://www.w3.org/news/2025/first-public-working-draft-css-environment-variables-module-level-1/
(DIR) Post #B2HCRPlk2GudUOg1Jo by w3c@w3c.social
2026-01-14T13:01:03Z
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W3C tech in the news: "Mastodon Is the Open Source Twitter Rival You’ve Been Waiting For""Rather than one central organization controlling everything, Mastodon is a network of independently run servers that speak the same language via something called ActivityPub, which is a part of the World Wide Web Consortium’s web standard."https://www.findarticles.com/mastodon-is-the-open-source-twitter-rival-youve-been-waiting-for/
(DIR) Post #B2oNhtgBXyg5eZuhqC by w3c@w3c.social
2026-01-30T13:00:55Z
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Encourage your organization to join W3C to drive the development of web standards and work with technology leaders in a transparent, open, vendor-neutral forum. W3C members collaboratively create royalty-free standards that make the web work for everyone. #aboutW3C See more at: https://www.w3.org/membership/ Check out our video "Benefits and Roles of W3C Members"https://youtu.be/y8tEWtxd8uw?si=1hPPUJUTIIfvel_3
(DIR) Post #B2oqqYizis5bwNi61Q by w3c@w3c.social
2026-01-30T17:45:13Z
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@Jain We'd love to have you, Jain! https://www.w3.org/membership/For Emoji standardization however, you'll have to rely on the #unicode consortium :blobcat3c:https://home.unicode.org/emoji/about-emoji/
(DIR) Post #B2we2ehfZknLooCvzM by w3c@w3c.social
2026-02-02T13:01:16Z
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W3C Tech in the news: "EPUB won’t support HTML anytime soon, and here’s why""The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG), part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that sets open web standards, surveyed the industry in 2025 to determine if the EPUB ebook standard should allow HTML in the next EPUB version. Based on the results, the PMWG decided not support HTML in EPUB."https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/epub-wont-support-html-anytime-soon-and-heres-why/