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Browsers treat big sites differently · When a site is big enough, the rules quietly change https://ilo.im/16cx88

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#Quirks #Safari #Firefox #Chrome #Browsers #WebStandards #BigWeb #SmallWeb #WebDev #Frontend

W3C will host TPAC 2026, our major event of the year, from 26-30 October 2026 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

TPAC gathers our community for thought-provoking discussions and coordinated work.Registration will open mid-July.

Consider becoming a W3C Member! Benefits include: influencing and participating in web standards, collaborating and networking with industry peers, accessing knowledge on emerging technologies, and more!
#JoinW3C #WebStandards #w3cTPAC
https://www.w3.org/events/tpac/2026/tpac-2026/

📆 21 May 2026, 16:00–16:10 CDT
"What Are Web Developers Doing About Security?" by @torgo at Open Source SSF Community Day, Minneapolis, MN, USA 🇺🇸

The W3C SWAG community group ran a survey to see what web security features and technologies web developers are using and how they're using them. This talk will be a brief introduction to SWAG, an overview of the surprising results, and what it means for the work ahead.
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/what-are-web-developers-doing-about-security/
#WebStandards #WebSecurity #OpenSSFCommunity

Happy Anniversary CSS!

On 12 May 1998 CSS level 2 went to Rec. It's amazing how far the web and CSS has come in 28 years.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to CSS over the years!
https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Overview.en.html
#WebStandards #WebDesign #CSS

📆 20 May 2026 2:10pm - 2:50pm CDT
"What's the Deal With Human Rights and Technical Standards?" by @torgo at the Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis, MN, USA 🇺🇸

This talk will seek explore the relationship between technical standards and human rights, and focus on what we're doing in W3C to further the goal of supporting human rights.
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/whats-the-deal-with-human-rights-and-technical-standards/
#WebStandards #HumanRights #OpenSourceSummit

📆 14 May 2026
"W3C WAI 2026 Update Town Hall" by Shawn Lawton Henry at Knowbility

Moving beyond a traditional presentation format, this Town Hall invites attendees to engage directly with the WAI’s current initiatives through open dialogue. It is a unique opportunity to contribute your questions and insights to the collective effort of making the web more accessible.
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/w3c-wai-2026-update-town-hall/
#WebAccessibility #WebStandards

Techbros finding HTML is more powerful than Markdown... just now:
https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935

#html #webstandards #markdown #md #claude #dev #devops #webdev #anthropic

DJ Shadow’s website history from 2001
— Derick Daily

https://djshadow.com/blogs/news/the-past-present-and-future-of-djshadow-com

#blog #flash #webstandards #ecommerce #design #html #musician

The Linked Web Storage Working Group has published the following four First Public Working Drafts: LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite: OpenID Connect, LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite: SAML 2.0, LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite, and LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite.

These enable LWS applications to integrate with OpenID providers, with SAML 2.0 identity providers and clients that are able to sign their own identity tokens.
Learn more at:
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-drafts-for-the-linked-web-storage-lws-1-0-authentication-suite/
#WebStandards #LinkedWebStorage

What *really* worries me with the new Chrome Prompt API is not that it shipped regardless of the strong negative sentiment, that it gives websites and extensions free access to your local compute or that it can easily turn into a white-gloved botnet. What worries me is that the Intent document doesn't mention privacy or security even once, nor does it address these concerns in a direct way.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/iR6R7-nQeHI/m/gN4iEGEdAQAJ
#chrome #webStandards #ChromeAI #ChromePromptAPI #PromptAPI

#Development #Analyses
Google’s Prompt API · Web standards should not become terms of service https://ilo.im/16cqh1

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#Business #TOS #Google #Chrome #AI #Browser #Privacy #OpenWeb #WebStandards #APIs #WebDev #Frontend

The JSON-LD Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of CBOR-LD 1.0. This spec defines CBOR-LD 1.0, a CBOR-based format to serialize Linked Data. The encoding is designed to leverage the existing JSON-LD ecosystem, which is deployed on hundreds of millions of systems today, to provide a compact serialization format for those seeking efficient encoding schemes for Linked Data.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-cbor-ld-1-0/
#WebStandards #LinkedData

The Web Performance Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of Long Animation Frames API. This document defines an API that web page authors can use to detect presence of "long animation frames" that monopolize the UI thread for extended periods of time and block other critical tasks from being executed - e.g. reacting to user input.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-long-animation-frames-api/
#WebStandards #WebPerformance

On the W3C blog, @seth wrote about "Age-restrictions on the web and user privacy and safety"

"A few of the unintended consequences that we are collectively grappling with are privacy violations, gatekeeping, fragmentation, data breaches, anonymity violations, and increased phishing risk...

In many cases, the issues appear to be more than age-based, they are safety-based, privacy-based"
Read more including about the new Community Group at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/age-restrictions-on-the-web-and-user-privacy-and-safety/
#AgeVerification #WebStandards

An Online Safety Community Group has been created at W3C.

The mission of this group is to provide a discussion forum about the technical and architectural considerations for online safety, including safety for children online. While many see a particular interest in bolstering safety for vulnerable populations such as children, safety is important to all users of the Web.

learn more at:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Apr/0015.html
#WebStandards #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification

Hidde's Blog shares: Open web vs AI: what can W3C do? https://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/ #WebStandards #FuckAI
The push notifications idea should definitely be explored.

RSS, ATOM, and JSON feeds may be getting a much-needed update to the spec with the addition of Byline, which provides structured identity (AKA: author details) for syndication feeds.

The proposal was created by @tg, maker of the popular Current RSS reader.

https://coywolf.com/notes/adding-author-context-to-rss/

#RSS #XML #OpenWeb #WebStandards

W3C opened a Representative Office in China following approval by the W3C Board of Directors, to fulfill a primary role in legal compliance and to expand the reach of W3C’s existing Partner Beihang University.
#WebStandards
https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2026/w3c-establishes-representative-office-in-shenzhen-reinforcing-commitment-to-open-web-standards-in-china/

Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213

#HackerNews #Mozilla #Chrome #PromptAPI #TechNews #WebStandards

33 years ago this week, on 30 April 1993, CERN released the code for the Web to the world. This effort, advocated by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has changed the world.

Tim founded W3C in 1994 to advance web standards.

Web standards are blueprints of a consistent and harmonious digitally connected world that power our experience on the web.

This #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting us in making the web work, for everyone.
#WebStandards #ThankYou
https://www.w3.org/support-us/

a brief professional history of me
1996-2026
#accessibility #HTML #ARIA #WCAG #webStandards #W3C

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2025/11/02/a-brief-professional-history-of-me/

For those to whom it may be of interest:

@w3c AGWG meeting minutes

#a11y #WCAG #webStandards

https://www.w3.org/2026/04/21-ag-minutes.html

Fireside chat – the story so far…

Episodes 1-15 Nov. 2025 – April 2026

#accessibility #webStandards #workers

https://html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/04/21/fireside-chat-the-story-so-far/

Long before standards bodies agreed on how to encode diverse scripts and symbols, computers used incompatible character sets.

Understanding how modern systems evolved from ASCII to Unicode—and what UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 mean—helps any developer, writer, or interested reader grasp the complexity hidden inside what looks like ordinary text.

https://tiniacoleyba.com/blog/unicode-utf8-ascii-encodings/ #WebStandards #ASCII #Unicode #basics

Last Call for Review of Proposed Corrections and Additions to ARIA in HTML

This spec defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 attributes on [HTML] elements.

Comments, including implementation experience, are welcome via GitHub through 8 June 2026.
#WebStandards #ARIAinHTML
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/last-call-for-review-of-proposed-corrections-and-additions-to-aria-in-html/

The RDF & SPARQL Working Group invites implementations of two Candidate Recommendation Snapshots.

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information on the Web. The RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Data Model defines an abstract data model which serves to link all RDF-based languages and specifications.

RDF 1.2 Semantics describes a precise semantics for RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Data Model and RDF 1.2 Schema
#WebStandards #RDF
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/w3c-invites-implementations-of-rdf-1-2-concepts-and-abstract-data-model-and-rdf-1-2-semantics/