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w3c, 1 day ago to random

Enjoyable talk on designing on the Web by @mia indeed!

5 minutes before the end, she shows several ways to fix the "CSS is awesome" broken box 👌
https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/112462162740363797

w3c, 2 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke on his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.

He spoke about the potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars 🌎 🌖 ✨

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8

w3c, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Founding Director and inventor of the Web

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative @wai develops technical specifications, guidelines and supporting resources that describe accessibility solutions.

Would you like to do something now to improve accessibility? Check out: https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/easy-checks/ #GAAD

w3c, 3 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Heather Flanagan spoke on "Identity on the Web"."Identity on the Web" is crucial for online interaction, privacy and security.

Heather is the co-chair of the newly created W3C Federated Identity WG. She discussed challenges in establishing a common understanding of identity and explored this topic's technological, social, and ethical dimensions in relation to the W3C’s mission.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/GI3UTZJ0Ue4

w3c, 4 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 @p20n, spoke on Data sovereignty.

Data sovereignty is the ongoing effort of individuals and organizations to oversee the data they produce, store, disseminate, and exchange.

Pierre-Antoine, W3C Data Strategist, evaluated several organizations and projects concerning data sovereignty and autonomy, exploring potential future collaboration opportunities. #DataSovereignty

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

w3c, 5 days ago to random

The HTML WG has published a Working Draft of HTML Ruby Markup Extensions.

Ruby, a form of interlinear annotation, are short runs of text alongside the base text. They are typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification revises and extends the markup model established by HTML to express ruby.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/working-draft-html-ruby-markup-extensions/

w3c, 5 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Leonard Rosenthol, of Adobe, introduced the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

The C2PA work leverages W3C standards and aims to develop technical specs for widespread content provenance and authenticity, allowing users to trace media origins. #VerifiableCredentials, #WebAnnotations,

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

w3c, 6 days ago to random

At our Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 AC meeting Dr. Naoshi Hirata spoke about how the Internet and Web are vital in emergencies, enabling seamless collaboration and information sharing.

Dr. Hirata, of the University of Tokyo, presented: "distributed disaster management data" using a case study for the Noto peninsula earthquake that struck Japan on January 1, 2024.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/v3vV8i2-3Ts

w3c, 10 days ago to random

The Internationalization Working Group has published Thai Layout Requirements and Lao Layout Requirements as Draft Notes. These two documents respectively describe or point to requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Thai and Lao scripts.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/draft-notes-thai-and-lao-layout-requirements/

w3c, 11 days ago to random

The W3C Advisory Committee, having nominated six individuals, will be voting until 29 May 2024 to fill five seats in the W3C Advisory Board (AB) election.

The Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-opens-advisory-board-ab-election/

w3c, 12 days ago to random

W3C tech in use on the web "Printing music with CSS Grid"
"CSS Grid allows us to align other symbols inside the notation grid too. Chords and lyrics, dynamics and so on can be lined up with, and span, timed events: "
https://cruncher.ch/blog/printing-music-with-css-grid/

w3c, 13 days ago to random

W3C has approved the Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter
"The mission of the Decentralized Identifier WG is two-fold. First, it will maintain the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) specification and related WG Notes. Second, it will seek consensus around the best way to achieve effective interoperability through common requirements, algorithms, architectural options, and various considerations for the DID resolution and DID URL dereferencing processes"
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-did-wg/2024Apr/0000.html

w3c, 17 days ago to random

Earlier this month W3C held "Breakouts Day 2024" with Detailed technical discussions (including FedCM and RDF Star); High-level strategic discussions (including Building Consensus, Privacy Principles, Ethical implications of Generative AI); Ideas for working more effectively (including trackers and registries); Raising awareness about new or proposed groups and Improving the Web for developers (including web security docs for MDN). Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/breakouts-day-2024-recap/

w3c, 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

In "The Internet and Climate Change" Dan York @danyork of ISOC wrote: "...in the face of climate change, the Internet’s infrastructure needs our help to be able to continue to operate"

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a new Sustainable Web Community Group developing best practices for building more sustainable websites... Get involved... the W3C’s Sustainable Web Community Group is open"

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/04/the-internet-and-climate-change/

w3c, 19 days ago to random

On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.

Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!

You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
https://www.w3.org/History.html

w3c, 19 days ago to random

The Timed Text Working Group published IMSC Hypothetical Render Model as a W3C Recommendation. This specification specifies a Hypothetical Render Model (HRM) that constrains the presentation complexity of documents that conform to the Text Profiles specified in any edition of Internet Media Subtitles and Captions ([IMSC]).
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/imsc-hypothetical-render-model-is-a-w3c-recommendation/

w3c, 20 days ago to random

The Verifiable Credentials WG invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE. This spec defines how to secure credentials conforming to the Verifiable Credential data model with JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE), Selective Disclosure for JWTs, and CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE). This enables the Verifiable Credentials to be implemented with standards for signing and encryption
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-invites-implementations-of-securing-verifiable-credentials-using-jose-and-cose/

w3cdevs, 24 days ago to privacy

In the evolving digital landscape, "Identity on the Web" is crucial for online interaction, #privacy and #security.

At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Heather Flanagan, co-chair of the newly created W3C Federated Identity #WorkingGroup discussed challenges in establishing a common understanding of #identity and explored this topic's technological, social, and #ethical dimensions in relation to the W3C’s mission.

▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/fedid/
🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/GI3UTZJ0Ue4

w3c, 24 days ago to random

Our Advisory Board has published a Draft Note for W3C's Vision

"Technology is not neutral; new technologies enable new actions and new possibilities, and we must take responsibility to address the actual impact of our work...

W3C’s Vision for the World Wide Web

The Web is for all humanity.

The Web is designed for the good of its users.

The Web must be safe for its users.

There is one interoperable world-wide Web."
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/

w3c, 25 days ago to random

The new Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group Draft Charter, with the mission to maintain SVG, is under Advisory Committee review through 25 May.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) describes graphics in a way that is scalable to different device resolutions in a manner that is accessible, stylable, and scriptable.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2024Apr/0004.html

w3c, 26 days ago to random

W3C tech in the news "4 Big Developments in WebAssembly "In many ways, Wasm has shown its maturation. Almost all mainstream languages now support WebAssembly....

But just as Java found use cases beyond its original intent, we also see Wasm opportunities opening up in fascinating areas like IoT as well as emerging areas like Wanix. This serves as a good reminder that maturity does not entail stagnation"
https://thenewstack.io/4-big-developments-in-webassembly/

w3c, 27 days ago to random

The W3C Advisory Board has published a Group Note of the Vision for W3C.

The document articulates W3C’s mission, what W3C is, what it does and why that matters, and the values and principles by which it operates and makes decisions. This version is the first public Note published by Advisory Board consensus, developed with the community, as a first step towards creating a W3C-endorsed W3C-wide Vision for the organization, to be ultimately published as a W3C Statement.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-vision-for-w3c/