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Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl@w3c.social)
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Just published a new DesignIssues note on the general vision of what a world will be like with everyone in control of their own data - the Solid Protocol benefits for when you have more than one app that has its data under your control. https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Vision.html
on Tue, 8PM
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Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl@w3c.social)
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In 2017 I wrote a note on Charlie - an agentic AI that works for *me*. Now there's a new Design Issues note - Charlie actually works in the @Inrupt labs, with simulated personal data and real Claude public data. AI that works in your best interest, and empowers you with your data 🚀...
13h ago
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Web Accessibility Initiative (@wai@w3c.social)
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Tools for collaborative development of documents, code, and more need to be accessible to people with disabilities. Here to help with that is: Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements https://www.w3.org/TR/ctaur/ Today we published it as a W3C Group Note. We've taken to referring to...
15h ago
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image The @webi18n has published a first Draft Note of String Searching. This document describes string searching operations on the Web in order to allow greater interoperability. String searching refers to natural language string matching such as the "find" command in a Web...
on Jan 13
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LĂ©onie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
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In other news, @TetraLogical@indie-web.social is 6 today! 🥳 And it's an absolute delight to be working with such a marvellous group of people: https://tetralogical.com/about/team/
on Jan 10
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image As the year 2024 comes to an end, the Web Consortium presents our 30th anniversary year holiday card to once more express our gratitude: “With you, our W3C community, we have achieved a lot in the past 30 years and we look forward to many more opportunities to work together...
on Dec 19
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W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image 📢 Election results for the @tag! @w3c members elected @hadleybeeman, @marcosc@mastodon.social, @csarven and Xiaocheng Hu. Congrats! 👏 👏 They join @tag's emeritus chair @timbl and continuing participants @torgo@mastodon.social, Matthew Atkinson, Dapeng (Max) Liu,...
on Dec 18
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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W3C is seeking community input between December 17 and January 5 for appointment to the @tag (W3C Technical Architecture Group), to complement the TAG election by actively seeking candidate appointees in order to support a diverse and well-balanced TAG, including diversity of technical...
on Dec 17
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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These Principles include: * There is one web * The web does not cause harm to society * The web supports healthy community and debate * The web is for all people * The web is secure and respects people's privacy * The web enables freedom of expression * The web makes it possible to verify...
on Dec 12
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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The W3C @tag has published a Statement of Ethical Web Principles to guide the community to build a better web. @torgo@mastodon.social and @wz43rtx noted: The web is a fundamental part of our lives, shaping how we work, connect, and learn. We understand that with this profound impact comes...
on Dec 12
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LĂ©onie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
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MPs in the UK have voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c99rzxlv99et Everyone has the choice. It's a terrible thing if someone has reached that point, especially if it could have been prevented (and it often can), but denying someone that choice...
on Nov 29
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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The Privacy Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Global Privacy Control (GPC). This document defines a signal, transmitted over HTTP and through the DOM, that conveys a person's request to websites and services to not sell or share their personal information with third...
on Nov 29
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CristoDCGomez | 👨‍💻💻🎮 (@cristomc@w3c.social)
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Si estás mudándote a #Mastodon o el #Fediverso te recomiendo encarecidamente que NO te quedes en mastodon punto social, sino que busques otra instancia. Mastodon punto social está ubicado en Alemania, e impone las leyes de ese paĂs, incluyendo las injustas y draconianas leyes anti-Palestina,...
on Nov 19
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W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image 🆕 @w3c launches the Private Advertising Technology (PAT) #WorkingGroup ▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pat/ Motivated by the @tag's Ethical Web Principles, this group aims to define web features and #APIs that support advertising without compromising user #privacy. The group...
on Nov 18
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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📆 28 November 2024 Simone 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/
on Nov 15
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Sarven Capadisli (@csarven@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image đź”” Check out this 15-second screencast showcasing dokieli's decentralised annotations and activities: https://dokie.li/media/video/dokieli-notifications.webm It shows how you can view interactions like comments, annotations, and bookmarks in a side panel. Play around with it...
on Nov 11
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LĂ©onie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
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I've used #Firefox as my primary browser for as long as I can remember. I stuck with it when its performance was comparatively dreadful, and when its performance with my screen reader was worse, because I agreed with Mozilla's ethos. Now #Mozilla has laid off another 30% of its people, and is...
on Nov 9
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LĂ©onie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
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Curious how other screen reader users are using Bluesky, if at all? The webapp and the iOS app both leave a lot of #accessibility to be desired it seems.
on Nov 9
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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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...
on Nov 8
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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W3C has launched the Sustainable Web Interest Group. The mission of the Group is to improve digital sustainability so that the Web works better for all people and the planet. The group develops and documents guidelines, patterns, processes, and best practices (along with supporting materials)...
on Nov 4
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LĂ©onie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
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Whether you have one or are interested in people who have them, read this: Everything you wanted to know about vaginas, but were too afraid to Google: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/02/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-vaginas-but-were-too-afraid-to-google
on Nov 2
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LĂ©onie Watson (@tink@w3c.social)
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Whoop! It's officially Winter time in the UK... Sunset at 4:54PM today. Bring on the log fires, candlelit evenings, home-made stews and soups, weekends making Christmas cake and duck confit, roast chestnuts, baggy jumpers and extra fluffy socks! #HappyThoughts
on Oct 27
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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At W3C@30, Jun Murai spoke about "One internet and the web" "So what started from the original idea, like a dream, 60 years ago, now turned out to be a reality. And, this is a space we are working for. Standardization is really important, because it's going to be shared, and it's going to be a...
on Oct 23
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Hadley Beeman (@hadleybeeman@w3c.social)
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Lots of discussion about digital health records in the NHS today. Modernisation, and privacy. But here’s the thing — we DON’T need a massive new database. Here’s how we do it. 1/
on Oct 22
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W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image #w3c30 #w3cTPAC Last month, we celebrated three decades of @w3c and the incredible global impact of its web standards. @seth, W3C's President an CEO, makes the promise that W3C's mission continues to be about connecting humanity: "Today is better than yesterday, tomorrow will...
on Oct 21
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Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl@w3c.social)
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📢 solidproject.org will have a new organisational home @ODIHQ@mastodon.social - pairing policy expertise with pro-human technology to build a global data infrastructure that encourages collaboration, stimulates creativity and fosters compassion - my original hope for the...
on Oct 20
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image #introduction Hello! đź‘‹ Meet the W3C Team https://www.w3.org/2024/09/w3cteam.html We are a international public-interest non-profit where since 1994 the Members, staff and public develop open standards and guidelines for an interoperable web to connect and empower...
on Oct 7
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After 15 years of work with Rosemary Leith to make the web more accessible, affordable and a trusted space for all we wind down the Web Foundation to focus on building pro-human systems that respect and empower individuals. Huge thank you to all involved. https://webfoundation.org/
on Sep 30
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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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@cosocial.ca @tomcoates@me.dm @mallory@techpolicy.social are planning...
on Sep 25
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Sponsoring W3C supports our events but also means supporting the technology that enhances people's lives. We are grateful to our 2024 sponsors. TPAC 2024 sponsors: Gold sponsor: AWS Silver sponsor: Google Bronze sponsor: Igalia W3C@30 sponsors: Earth sponsor: AWS Eclipse sponsors: Igalia and...
on Sep 19
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Ivan Herman (@ivan_herman@w3c.social)
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Very much worth reading. "The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists" https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
on Sep 18
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W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social)
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Newly created @w3c #WorkingGroup: "Linked Web Storage"! The group's mission is to create #WebApps with loosely coupled data storage, #authentication, and access control by standardizing a #protocol between apps and identity/storage servers. ▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/ The group will...
on Sep 14
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Virginia Balseiro (@yesvirginia@w3c.social)
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@andre@fedi.jaenis.ch @sarajw@front-end.social It took me ages to understand Diego was drunk and trying to sing Rapper's Delight.
on Sep 14
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Attached: 1 image #20albums that have had an impact on who you are. One album a day (maybe) for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just album covers.
on Sep 2
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image 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....
on Aug 30
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Hadley Beeman (@hadleybeeman@w3c.social)
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After reading Google’s announcement that they no longer plan to deprecate third-party cookies, we the @tag wanted to make our position clear. Third-party cookies have got to go. We have updated our TAG finding “Third-party cookies must be removed” to spell out our...
on Jul 30
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Hadley Beeman (@hadleybeeman@w3c.social)
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This is NOT good for personal data rights on the web. #privacy “Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing.” https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-update
on Jul 29
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Technical Architecture Group (@tag@w3c.social)
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In 2023, we published a finding encouraging the deprecation of third party cookies, and the development of new technologies that can replace their functionality. Today, we’re issuing an updated version of that finding to further clarify our position: third-party cookies are harmful to the web...
on Jul 25
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Research Questions Task Force (RQTF) welcomes feedback on the updated Draft W3C Group Note Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements. The document covers accessibility user needs, requirements, and scenarios for collaborative content creation...
on Jul 23
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Following the W3C TAG election, the W3C Team has chosen and the Advisory Board and TAG have ratified the appointment of the following to the TAG for the 2024-2026 term: Tristan Nitot Jeffrey Yasskin This procedure is the result of new rules set forth by the Process Document regarding TAG...
on Jul 16
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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@njsg@social.sdf.org Thanks, we're looking into this
on Jul 12
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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Incremental Font Transfer has been published by the Web Fonts Working Group as a Working Draft. Incremental Font Transfer defines a method to incrementally transfer fonts from server to client. Incremental transfer allows clients to load only the portions of the font they actually need which...
on Jul 10
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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After reading our CEO @seth 's blog post on Internationalization are you interested to contribute? Seth notes, that "While we’ve made great strides in supporting the languages of the world, there is more work to do and more opportunities for experts or interested parties to keep up with us at...
on Jul 3
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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W3C tech in the news: "Threads Is Diving Deeper Into the Fediverse. Here's What to Know" at CNET" "The Fediverse is the term given to federated social media -- platforms belonging to a larger group or organization. Federated social media platforms are united under a set of open-source,...
on Jul 3
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W3C Internationalization, i18n (@webi18n@w3c.social)
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Attached: 3 images More layout requirement First Public Working Drafts published. - Perso-arabic Kashmiri Layout Requirements https://www.w3.org/TR/arab-ks-lreq/ - Urdu Layout Requirements https://www.w3.org/TR/arab-ur-lreq/ - Uighur Layout...
on Jul 1
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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W3C tech in the news: "Google Is Now Indexing EPUB Files" "Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index. EPUB is an XML-based eBook publishing format based on a standard...
on Jun 8
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W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social)
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Attached: 1 image #AI and #MachineLearning models are shifting a number of core assumptions on which the various Web stakeholders have been relying on for years. In this presentation at the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, @dontcallmeDOM reviews the systemic impact and possible mitigation...
on May 23
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World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
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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...
on May 16