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Today, W3C is pleased to announce the publication as a W3C Statement of Vision for W3C. W3C Statements provide a stable reference for documents not intended to be formal standards but that have been formally reviewed and are endorsed by W3C.

29 Jul 2025 10:27am GMT

W3C recently published specifications will build foundations for new ways to represent identity on the web. Verifiable Credentials 2.0 and the first draft of Digital Credentials API enable the secure, seamless exchange of digital credentials on the web, emphasizing flexibility, emerging cryptography, compliance with regulation, and W3C principles related to privacy and security. All of these topics will be on the agenda of the Global Digital Collaboration, co-organized by W3C.

01 Jul 2025 6:29am GMT

In this blog post, W3C President and CEO Seth Dobbs introduces the initiatives for 2025-2028 that will support W3C's strategic objectives.

30 Jun 2025 9:30pm GMT

The W3C Board of Directors has open seats that can be appointed by the Board of Directors itself for two-year terms. W3C is seeking community input to identify Board Director candidates with financial skills, legal acumen, and fundraising experience, as well as with connections to other SDOs, who might improve the collective skills of the existing W3C Board of Directors.

17 Jun 2025 1:47pm GMT

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs explains why and how privacy on the web as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C's mission, mentions current focus on Global Privacy Control (GPC), private advertising, and the recent W3C Statement on privacy principles.

28 May 2025 8:26am GMT

Protecting user privacy is fundamental to creating a web that works for everyone. Last week, W3C published its Statement on Privacy Principles, which provides definitions for privacy concepts plus privacy principles to guide web development. Learn more about this guide and how it can help us all to create a more trustworthy web for users around the world by "levelling up" privacy.

22 May 2025 9:58am GMT

Shawn Henry shares her thoughts about a recent trip as part of the Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Program in Hong Kong on Digital Accessibility

15 May 2025 8:30am GMT

The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) has finalized the EPUB 3.3 specification, clarifying language and aligning it with related specifications. The group is now working on the next major revision, EPUB 3.4. This revision will include new features such as dark mode support and standardized footnote/endnote practices. Additionally, new task forces are exploring digital comics support and EPUB annotations.

23 Apr 2025 3:03pm GMT

The goal of the Exploration Interest Group is to provide a platform to help W3C investigating emerging technology trends, analyzing their impacts on the evolution of Web technologies, and proposing ways for W3C to collaborate shaping the trends for the benefit of the Web users.

22 Apr 2025 10:23am GMT

The WebDX Community Group has completed a first nearly complete catalog of web features targeted at web developers, along with support data across main browsers. The catalog already powers MDN, Can I Use, and is now being integrated in tools and libraries. Feedback welcome!

13 Mar 2025 11:58am GMT

The W3C SWAG (Security Web Application Guidelines) Community Group, launched in June 2024, aims to simplify security features in web app development. SWAG's mission is to enhance web app security by creating best practices for developers and fostering collaboration. A key output includes videos on configuring CSP and Trusted Types, which mitigate XSS. Based on Google's adoption experience, these resources offer tools to help developers securely configure these protections with minimal effort.

06 Mar 2025 7:16pm GMT

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs shares impressions from representing W3C for the first time at the World Economic Forum, and illustrates how our distinctive human-centric focus in the world of Standards Development Organizations positions W3C to be helping to shape the future of the web.

24 Feb 2025 5:29pm GMT

The W3C Web Interoperable Runtimes Community Group ("WinterCG") and Ecma International (the organization which standardizes ECMAScript, also known as JavaScript) have collaborated to create a new Ecma Technical Committee,TC55 - Web-interoperable server runtimes, dubbed "WinterTC", for the development of a common web-aligned API surface for server-side JavaScript runtimes like Node.js, Deno and Cloudflare Workers.

10 Jan 2025 3:27pm GMT

Discover the World Wide Web Consortium's 30th anniversary year animated holiday card and read about some of the highlights of the year 2024 in W3C's CEO Seth Dobbs' blog post.

18 Dec 2024 7:45pm GMT

W3C is seeking community input between December 17 and January 5 for appointment to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), to complement the TAG election by actively seeking candidate appointees in order to support a diverse and well-balanced TAG, including diversity of technical background, knowledge, and skill sets.

17 Dec 2024 12:00am GMT

The Ethical Web Principles are a manifesto of W3C's core values and principles. In this post, W3C Technical Architecture co-chair Dan Appelquist outlines how to go from words to action.

16 Dec 2024 9:42pm GMT