WOFF 1.0: A Milestone on W3C’s Journey of Fonts on the Web, by @svgeesus (@w3c):
w3.org/blog/2026/woff-1-0-a-mi…
#woff #fonts #standards #web #w3c
The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.W3C
Why does the W3C - or any standards body worth its salt - still allow important standardisation work to be done on GritHub, and other platforms owned by vendors?
Surely a well-funded organisation, whose mission is to be vendor-neutral, ought to be standing up its own code forge and other project management tools people doing standards work need? Depending on the rapidly enshittifying platforms owned by W3C vendor-members seems unwise. Especially BorgSoft, given their history.
Je partage de nouveau cette page indispensable du #W3C, que je relis chaque fois avec délectation quand j'échange avec quelqu'un qui a les préjugés courants sur la composition des noms de personnes à l'international :
w3.org/International/questions…
Au passage, merci Richard Ishida pour cet excellent contenu, @notabene et @arkhi pour cette belle traduction, et @goulvench pour la relecture. Un bel effort collectif. 🙏
Comment les noms de personnes diffèrent-ils à travers le monde, et quelles sont les implications de ces différences dans le design de formulaires, bases de données, ontologies, etc. pour le Web ?www.w3.org
Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I’ve certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been working on building out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Activity…Soatok (Dhole Moments)
Preparing a new Loops release, possibly related to my upcoming FediCon talk!
I can't stop smiling. 😁
#Loops #FediCon #ActivityPub #W3C
Just back from my very first @w3c @tag Face-to-Face in London, and it was so cool!
🌐 It was a packed week covering many topics, including the health of the #web, the impact of #AI, the global download of AI models as an architectural concept, age verification, and more.
🤝 The freshly formed #TAG worked really well together, and I’m excited to help shape the future of the web.
🎉 Thanks to Google for hosting us, and Samsung for hosting the developer meetup.
Meeting minutes from the last Social Web Working Group call, which covered topics like discovery, groups, trust and safety, and more.
github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/m…
Reminder that the fediverse is a "group project" and really does take a village.
Care to join in and help?
#fediverse #ActivityPub #W3C #SocialWeb
Social Web Working Group. Contribute to w3c/socialwg development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@evan some time ago you queried about what would be a good comms channel for #ActivityPub API.
I have some ideas / recommendations on the #Github repo that the #W3C TF uses.
- Structure the repo to hold the work of the full task force, not just for the creation of a single specification document.
- Use GH Discussions for all the general elaboration, feedback collection, etc. The repo forms a self-contained body of work. Move most current Issues in the tracker to become Discussions.
- Issues are created by task force members, and always represent actionable items. They are tracked on a Project kanban board where the swimlanes represent a simple protocol development #Process with a number of stages.
Then:
- Primary comms channel is Discussions.
- Issues + kanban represent work tracks.
- Secondary comms channel can be #fedi.
I'd reserve #SocialCG mailing list to #governance and organizational matters concerning the CG itself, and point mails on other subject to appropriate channel.
Did @Mastodon GmbH formally join @w3c or the particular W3C working group? Even if the WG notes [1] sound like the former, the official members list [2] suggest the later. But maybe the list has not been updated yet?
In any case, that is good news.
1. github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/m…
2. w3.org/membership/list/
Social Web Working Group. Contribute to w3c/socialwg development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
In #Google #Chrome, it is possible to apply self-alignment attributes such as align-self, justify-self, and place-self to the grid container within a block element. According to the official specification, this should not be possible. #Firefox is more precise in this case, so it is only possible to align an element (grid subelement) within a grid container itself.
w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/#alignmen…
#css #frontend #web #development #browser #cssgrid #grid #w3c #webstandards web #technology
Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined forces with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
If you’re not in the design/tech world, trust me when I say this is a big step for the fediverse. The W3C establishes the standards used for the internet.
This is a solid path forward for small tech.
github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/m…
#Mastodon #News #Technology #Fediverse #W3C #SmallTech #FOSS
Social Web Working Group. Contribute to w3c/socialwg development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Y’all. I just launched v1.5 of my macOS color contrast checker, Ratio. A couple of bugs squashed and it’s ready for your accessibility ventures in design and development.
#Ratio #W3C #Accessibility #A11y #ColorContrast #macOS #App #Software #Design #FrontEnd #Development
Accessibility color contrast checker app for macOS with support for WCAG and APCA.Mark Wyner
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago!
w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-i…
#fediverse #activitypub #standards #OpenWeb #W3C #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.W3C
