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/
In "The Internet and Climate Change" Dan York 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"
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
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...
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.
Access to a Web for All has been a fundamental concern and goal of the World Wide Web Consortium since the beginning, and is a natural requirement for Web-based applications, given that they can be accessed by people around the world.
If you internationalize, you design or develop your content, application, specification, and so on, in a way that ensures it will work well for, or can be easily adapted for, users from any culture, region, or language. Learn more at: https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/about
W3C has approved the Federated Identity Working Group Charter.
The mission of the Federated Identity Working Group is to develop specifications to allow a website to request a federated identity credential or assertion with the purpose of authenticating a user and/or requesting a set of claims in a compatible way to OIDC or SAML. https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedid-wg/2024Mar/0000.html
W3C tech in the news: "Making Sense of Meta’s Move to Join the Fediverse"
"Threads leverages ActivityPub — a decentralized, open social networking protocol built by the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) – to connect to the fediverse. Meta’s initiative to bring the platform into the fediverse may have a downstream impact on the creator economy, allowing creators greater autonomy over their content and monetization strategies" https://www.pymnts.com/meta/2024/making-sense-of-metas-move-to-join-the-fediverse/
We have updated our Code of Conduct. The Code defines expected and unacceptable behaviors and promotes high standards of professional practice. The goals of this Code are to: Ensure that everyone who participates is treated equitably and with respect. Define a standard of acceptable behavior for the organization. Contribute to the identity of the organization. Identify unacceptable behaviors. Provide guidance to participants on addressing issues. https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-adopts-updated-code-of-conduct-code/
Last week @seth wrote "From a humble beginning 35 years ago, the Web is now central to the daily lives of billions"
"Tim Berners-Lee created a single organization to coordinate web standards, aiming to foster a consistent and interoperable architecture accommodating the rapid pace of progress in web standards. A single global Consortium that stewards the Web forward to serve the greater good."
Our Code defines expected and unacceptable behaviors and promotes high standards of professional practice. The goals of this Code are to: Ensure that everyone who participates is treated equitably and with respect. Define a standard of acceptable behavior for the organization. Contribute to the identity of the organization. Identify unacceptable behaviors. Provide guidance to participants on addressing issues. https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-adopts-updated-code-of-conduct-code/
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 to ensure the long-term growth of the Web. He established this international Consortium and a community of peers to coordinate web standards he felt were needed as companies invested increasing resources into the web.
35 years ago, on 12 March 1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote “Information Management: A Proposal” outlining the World Wide Web. Tim's vision outlined a future we are still creating: "We should work toward a universal linked information system... to allow a place to be found for any information...and a way of finding it afterwards... ...we will be looking for a systems which are future-proof: • portable, or supported on many platforms, • Extendible to new data formats." http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
On the W3C blog, CEO Seth Dobbs @seth wrote: "Needs of a member-driven but public-interest global organization" "We have many opportunities ahead of us to further strengthen our membership and deepen/broaden participation in a way to ensure that there is one web for all, developed and shepherded at the Web Consortium: this is our future success." Read more at: https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/needs-of-a-member-driven-but-public-interest-global-organization/
The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered with stewardship of the Web architecture.
This finding sets out why associating a particular set of technologies with a version number for the web goes against the principle that there is one web.
We are hiring! The World Wide Web Consortium is seeking a full-time staff member to lead our Privacy standardization efforts.
This person will have a unique opportunity to be a key part of the technical team responsible for the design of the next generation World Wide Web and to lead a variety of industry and user groups toward the development of technologies that enhance the privacy of the Web.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, to develop interoperable standards to lead the Web to its full potential.We are an international multi-stakeholder community where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to build a Web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.Please be more curious than critical. Your interactions go to real people who care and do their best 🙏