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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

The Ethical Web Principles, which build on W3C's core values and principles in the web and its architecture, are a call to action for the web industry and for W3C itself, aiming to deliver positive social outcomes. As we expand the web platform, we must consider the consequences of our work. As members of the web community, we each play a part in shaping its future.

12 Dec 2024 7:23am GMT

the workshop will discuss Semantic interoperability - key to open ecosystems on the Web

14 Nov 2024 8:00am GMT

Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.

04 Nov 2024 2:26pm GMT

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs describes W3C's 30th anniversary event, and shares his impressions after attending for the first time a W3C TPAC which attracts in a week several hundreds from the W3C community in order to coordinate solutions to web problems.

23 Oct 2024 9:38pm GMT