Notices by World Wide Web Consortium (w3c@w3c.social)

"Standards, Inc: Inside the new, old organization with Seth Dobbs" @bkardell and @Meyerweb spoke with @seth on the @igalia podcast

They discussed how Seth became CEO and the Vision for W3C:
Seth: "This really roots us into the future in a way that I think is very positive"
Eric Meyer: "...even if it's the first vision statement that W3C has ever had. It's almost saying, 'Well, this is what we've been doing. This has been the vision. We've just written it down now"
https://www.igalia.com/chats/w3c-seth-dobbs

Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world 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/

"How Standard Setters Run the Internet" by @internetsociety

"We are able to interconnect so seamlessly on the Internet in large part thanks to Internet standards. Internet standards allow us to communicate easily, across a wide variety of devices, providers, and systems in a way that makes sense for everyone...

W3C is a global community of member organizations, full-time staff, and public citizens who work together to develop open standards for the World Wide Web"

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/07/how-standard-setters-run-the-internet/

Last week W3C opened, at the same time as registration our TPAC 2025 meeting, the applications to two funds available as part of the W3C Community Engagement Support Program: The TPAC Inclusion Fund and the W3C Invited Experts Support Fund. This is designed to support people from under-represented groups who wouldn’t be able to attend or meaningfully contribute to TPAC without financial support.

Applications are open until 8 August 2025. Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-opens-inclusion-fund-and-invited-expert-fund-for-tpac-2025/

7-9 October 2025, London, UK 🇬🇧

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and W3C are convening a workshop to examine the technical and architectural implications of different approaches to implementing age-based restrictions on access to online content.

Papers that are submitted will be used in developing a workshop program. Position papers from those not able to attend the workshop are also encouraged.

See more at:
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/upcoming-iab-w3c-workshop-on-age-based-restrictions-on-content-access/

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/

"Public release of W3C’s 2025-2028 strategic objectives initiatives" by @seth

We should work towards diversifying our support, finding new stakeholders and strengthening existing work to adapt to and mitigate risks posed by our rapidly changing environment... By adopting initiatives that support strategic objectives, we can truly realize 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/public-release-of-w3cs-2025-2028-strategic-objectives-initiatives/

The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Working Group published Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) as a W3C Proposed Recommendation. This document describes PNG (Portable Network Graphics), an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images.This spec defines two Internet Media Types, image/png and image/apng.

https://www.w3.org/news/2025/portable-network-graphics-png-specification-third-edition-is-a-w3c-proposed-recommendation/

🎂 the W3C Patent Policy was adopted 22 years ago today 🎉

https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2003/patentpolicy/

"Royalty-free" is meant to boost adoption, implementation, and ultimately growth of the web as a platform.

W3C standards may be used by anyone at no cost; if they were not free, developers would ignore them.

📆 6 May 2025 14:00–15:30 UTC
Authentic Web workshop

Today! The Credible Web Community Group will hold part 2 of the Authentic Web workshop with speakers Leonard Rosenthol and Brendan Quinn.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/8235290b-3029-4252-a962-9988b74cc862/

The Devices and Sensors Working Group has published Compute Pressure Level 1 as W3C Candidate Recommendation. The Compute Pressure API provides a way for websites to react to changes in the CPU pressure of the target device, such that websites can trade off resources for an improved user experience.
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-compute-pressure-level-1/

"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/

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

W3C @wai published the Authorized Brazilian Portuguese Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Diretrizes de Acessibilidade para Conteúdo Web (WCAG) 2.2.

The Lead Translation Organization for this Authorized Translation was https://Ceweb.br. WAI particularly encourages the development of Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.2 to facilitate their adoption and implementation internationally. See more at:
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/authorized-translation-of-wcag-2-2-in-brazilian-portuguese/

W3C tech in the news: "A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media"

"The energy around ActivityPub reminds me of the early days of the Web,” Mr. Nelson said in a recent interview, “where anything seemed possible, and innovation was around every corner.”
https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20250307210844/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html

Today is the anniversary of the invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.

W3C has continued to expand on what the web does by our mission to make the web work, for everyone. We bring together global stakeholders to develop open standards that enable a World Wide Web that connects and empowers humanity.
https://www.w3.org/mission/

Welcome back our Chinese friends in the web community after the vibrant celebrations of the Year of the Snake.

May the qualities of the Snake—wisdom, agility, power, grace, and determination—inspire us all to embrace change and innovation as we navigate the opportunities and challenges ahead. We wish everyone a prosperous start in 2025!

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/

On International Privacy Day we invite you to check out "Privacy Principles" for the web by @tag

"Privacy is an essential part of the web. This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform."
https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/

The CSS Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of CSS Display Module Level 4. This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and defines the display property that controls it.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/first-public-working-draft-css-display-module-level-4/