Remember back when websites having badges that they conform to #HTML standards was cool? Back in the good old days of #W3C and #OpenStandards?
These days, I'm ashamed of using HTML: the standard that used to mean interoperability, and now is entirely controlled by #GAFAM and used to pursue their own malicious interests instead. Today, the right kind of banner is to show a middle finger to #WHATWG.
Évidemment ce n’est pas RIP #XSLT puisque les navigateurs étaient déjà 20 ans en retard sur les versions du langage. Mais cela parle de la plateforme du Web et des pratiques délétères des éditeurs de navigateurs qui avec #WHATWG se sont emparés des standards du web avec l’abandon complice du #W3C ces dernières années. #www
https://floss.social/@igalia/115066707921700628
Standards, Inc: Inside the new, old organization with Seth Dobbs.
Another essential Igalia Chats explaining the history and role of @w3c https://www.igalia.com/chats/w3c-seth-dobbs
> Of the 68% of the world that are on the web actively, 70% of them are on 2G or 3G.
Also a recognition of the invaluable work done by W3C team.
> It's amazing that so many people from so many different parts of the world are working on this stuff.
Next global W3C meeting in Kobe. I'll be there.
https://www.w3.org/2025/11/TPAC/
#BostonWeekend 18/x
Sat #WEB Its #HTML Day! Cambridge Crossing, 3-5pm, free hosted by fediverse’s own @cxli and @kayserifserif - come write HTML with us, no experience required
https://icosahedron.website/@cxli/114914202375756748
https://boston-html-day.neocities.org #Bostodon
#FrontEnd #WebPages #textEditor #hacking #Boston #CambridgeMA #Firefox #chrome #W3C #HTMLDay #Markup #Markdown #javascript #Typescript #python #code #browser #software #language
Just published: “Designing with Abstractions: CSS and the Case of Masonry Layouts”
This (academic) article explores CSS as both a technical system and a design object. It examines how this is shaped through negotiation between conceptual models, implementation constraints, and interface considerations, focusing on the Masonry layout debates.
Appreciation to those participating in CSS WG debates and making this work visible.
Le web est une infrastructure et sa longévité dépendra de sa résilience. @tidoust proposera les solutions pour le faire durer dans le temps : des référentiels, des boucles et du lien humain.
Just a thought, from a knuckle-dragging biology scientist. TL;DR: I believe there is scope to make the hosting of a peertube instance even more lightweight in the future.
I read some time ago of people using #webAssembly to transcode video in a user's web-browser. https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/ffmpeg-webassembly.html
Since then, I believe #WebGPU has done/is doing some clever things to improve the browser's access to the device's GPU.
I have not seen any #peertube capability that offloads video transcoding to the user in this way.
I imagine, though, that this would align well with peertube's agenda of lowering the bar to entry into web-video hosting, so I cannot help but think that this will come in time.
My own interest is seeing a #Piefed (activitypub) instance whose web-pages could #autotranslate posts into the user's own language using the user's own processing power... One day, maybe!
Thank you again for all your hard work; it is an inspiration.
#ActivityPub #W3C #NonDisclosureAgreement #EmptyPromises
Yes, I wonder if there is at least anything which Jay Graber did not promise to anyone!
Elected to the AB!
I'm very pleased to report that I have been elected to the W3C Advisory Board, and I'll be starting my official term in July!As a result, I’ll also be stepping down from the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) — a group I’ve had the honor of co-chairing for the past 12 years. It’s been an incredible journey helping to steward the architecture of the web and working with brilliant people across the industry. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved together, and I know the TAG will […]
You’re literally the standards body of surveillance capitalism. Shut the fuck up about privacy. The corporate members that fund your existence violate privacy as the core driver of their business models.
Fucking hypocrites doing fucking PR.
#W3C #privacy #privacyWashing #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #BigWeb #PR https://w3c.social/@w3c/114551380634183119
Das W3-Konsortium #W3C hat ein Richtlinienpapier zum Thema #Privatsphäre und #Datenschutz (#Privacy) veröffentlicht. Es beginnt gleich mit einer knackigen Liste an Richtlinien, die beim Entwerfen und Entwickeln von Apps, APIs, User Interfaces, Admin Interfaces, Plattformen usw. unabhängig von geltendem Recht immer beachtet werden sollten. Mit der Liste kann man auch gut bestehende Anwendungen prüfen - und dann gegebenenfalls nachbessern. Sicher auch eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre für das #BMDS.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/
"We launched in Sep/2024 with a bold mission: to foster an #open, #decentralized, and #usercentric #socialweb. In just the few short months that remained in 2024, we made meaningful progress. Our participation at #W3C #TPAC and collaborations with major stakeholders like #Mastodon, #Ghost, and #Automattic have helped spark momentum for a healthier, more resilient online ecosystem.
Today we are proud to publish our 2024 #AnnualReport– the first of many."
#SWF
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/06/reflecting-on-our-first-year-the-social-web-foundations-2024-annual-report/
On the #W3C #SocialCG a related issue. For a good bottom-up standardization process that guarantees an open and inclusive #ActivityPub related ecosystem, there should be good alignment with the #FEP Process.
@davatron5000 Let's just ship https://github.com/trusktr/html-includes?
Where my implementors at? I know DOM Core just got some new members over at @mozilla
I am tickled to see this bit of web trivia listed in @TheSeattleTimes “Today in History”. I represented Boeing to the #WorldWideWebConsortium (#W3C) for years. That international Web standards org was made possible because @timbl and @CERN generously gave the initial web code to the world for free — apparently on April 30, 1993. Many of my friends here are from that connection. I am deeply grateful for that experience. And of course that we have the Web!
During our @w3c #Games #Community #Group meetup happening on March 25th we’ve formulated the idea of a brand new Community Group being created specifically around the concept of Loading and Control API.
I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:
Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/
Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/
If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)
Thank you for your support.
#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)
¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/
² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)
Forr those of you who still believe in something as an "open web" : Cloudfare, for one, is in a position to determine what you can use and can't to browse the web - and they are blocking everything non-bigtech. (Mozilla included in "bigtech" for this purpose):
Something I wrote in the W3C Authentic Web Mini Workshop’s Zoom chat:
Another implicit assumption (flaw) that is often a part of "purely technical solutions" is the neglect or ignorance (innocent naïveté) of existing technical solutions.
A technical proposal should not be praised for what it claims to solve.
A technical proposal must be evaluated by what marginal difference or advantage does it provide over existing technologies.
Any technical proposal that ignores prior technologies is itself doomed to be ignored by the next technical proposal.
In addition to the slide presentations (links to come) in the mini workshop and Zoom verbal discussion which was minuted (link to come), there was a lot of very interesting discussion in the Zoom chat, which was not minuted. Sometimes such quick back & forth can help inspire summarizing of points which one had not previously written down.
I was encouraged by a fellow workshop participant to blog this one so here it is!
#W3C #credweb #credibleWeb #authenticWeb #technology #technical #proposal #technicalProposal #history
