Very well-delivered talk by @w3c colleague and @tag co-chair @torgo last week, which takes the listener on the journey of designing technology according to principles.
Today I updated the visual 1994-2024 timeline of @w3c organizational highlights and most notable technical work.
For additional context I added the number of websites and Internet users every few years, as well as a layer noting a selection of other sites, products or services.
All you've ever wanted to know about what me and my team do in Communications at the World Wide Web Consortium @w3c in one single evergreen slide deck!
The March 2024 update has the full-time equivalent rise from 2.80 to 2.90 ๐ and updated bios slide.
On the same day, today, the European Parliament passed the #AIAct and the @w3c team published an analysis of the systemic impact on the Web of AI systems, and how Web standardization might mitigate that impact! What a great timing ๐
My colleague @dontcallmeDOM wrote with input from the @w3c team our understanding on the systemic impact on the Web of AI systems, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact.
If you are curious or concerned about how #AI might change the Web as we know it, please take the time to read our take on the ethical and societal impact for people. And then please, comment ๐
Thanks to @tomayac for precisely explaining what Apple is going to break in the European Union for those who use home screen web apps, once the Digital Markets Act comes into effect on March 8, 2024.
@yatil Iโm positive Iโm even slower formulating words than I am structuring them in writing! At least in writing itโs all in front of me, unlike spoken words which for me disappear and dissolve into other words.
An account marked as "bot" on an instance made the same report 355 times between 2:18pm CET and 2:31pm CET.
The 355 reports included the same toot (a regular, non-spam, valid tool), for reason "other".
At the peak of the reporting wave, this bot account made 85 reports per minute.
It took me 50 minutes in the /admin/reports web interface to resolve each of them.
I've suspended that instance to prevent further DDoS death by bot fake reports.
I'm gathering information (and thoughts) on #i18n for a piece I'm going to write, and I wonder if or how Internationalization aspects factor in the #WebCompat activities and processes in place at browser vendors.
#CSS level 1 by @bert & H&kon became a @w3c Recommendation 27 years ago๐
#OnThisDay in 1996, a foundational aspect of the web became a standard!
> CSS1 allows authors and readers to attach style to HTML documents [that] is human readable and writable.
> One of the fundamental features of CSS is that style sheets cascade; authors can attach a preferred style sheet, while the reader may have a personal style sheet to adjust for human or technological handicaps. #css#w3c https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217
As first-time attendee of the @w3c#w3cTPAC mid-September 2023, @patrickbrosset wrote a very interesting --and refreshing-- first impressions and explanation of how the "sausage is made" when it comes to web features and web standardization.
Ah, if @w3c were a wealthy consortium, we staff members could be doing meaningful work AND be better compensated for our specialized skills ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ