Browsers, standards, development, AI, cybersecurity, CMS, search and infrastructure: a press review built from official feeds published by leading Web organizations.
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This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.
W3C launches a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing terms.
The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources.
This document describes the impact ratings provided alongside Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).
This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 attributes on [HTML] elements.
This document describes the process of obtaining a DID document and accompanying metadata for a specific DID.
In this document, the Advisory Board lists examples of how human rights and technical standards setting map to each other, points to existing W3C work in this area, and provides concrete proposals to further the alignment between the W3C’s technical…
The EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer provides information on how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2 against reflowable EPUB publications.
This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced web content — including HTML, CSS, SVG, and…
This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.
This document builds upon Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals to provide authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby…
This document describes the best practices for identifying the language and direction for strings used on the Web.
This spec introduces a way to pass CSS values into linked resources, such as SVG images, so that they can be used as CSS custom environment variables in the destination resource.
This document describes the Linked Web Storage Vocabulary, i.e., the RDF Schema vocabulary used by the Linked Web Storage Protocol.
This document provides the reader with a summary of changes to RDF introduced in RDF version 1.2.
SHACL Profiling defines elements of the SHACL Shapes Constraint Language created to allow for profiles of SHACL and profiling with SHACL.
The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
This specification describes a mechanism for issuers of verifiable credentials to publish indexed lists of compact cryptographic witnesses.
W3C opens applications for travel support for TPAC 2026 to help reduce barriers for participation and increase diversity at TPAC, acknowledging the positive contributions of participants and Invited Experts who have shown commitment through their…
This specification describes several Data Integrity Cryptosuites for use when generating a digital signature using Post-Quantum digital signature algorithms.
W3C released today the 2026 diversity report, as part of our commitment and continued focus on diversity and inclusion since 2018.
Read about various happenings with Baseline during April 2026.
The open web is a critical platform for applications that handle highly sensitive data, from private communications to financial transactions and medical records. Traditionally, servers are trusted to deliver the appropriate code and resources for…
Read about various happenings with Baseline during March 2026.
Read about various happenings with Baseline during February 2026.
Read about various happenings with Baseline during January 2026
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the 2025 WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages…
The Navigation API is now Baseline Newly available, providing a better way to handle navigation in single-page applications.
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Each edition prioritizes material actually published in its language. Titles and excerpts remain in the source language, and the full story is always read on the publisher’s website.
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