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In short, keep writing “http:” and trust that the infrastructure will quietly switch over to TLS (https) whenever both client and server can handle it. Meanwhile, let’s try to get SemWeb software to be doing TLS+UIR+HSTS and be as secure as modern browsers. Sandro Hawke As we hope you’ve noticed, W3C is increasing the security […]
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HTML5 was released in 2014 as the result of a concerted effort by the W3C HTML Working Group. The intention was then to begin publishing regular incremental updates to the HTML standard, but a few things meant that didn’t happen as planned. Now the Web Platform Working Group (WP WG) is working towards an HTML5.1 […]
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The HTML Media Extensions Working Group was extended today until the end of September 2016. As part of making video a first class citizen of the Web, an effort started by HTML5 itself in 2007, W3C has been working on many extension specifications for the Open Web Platform: capturing images from the local device camera, […]
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W3C had its annual meeting last week in Boston and it was one of the most interactive meetings we have had in recent memory. During the meeting we released the W3C highlights for Spring 2016, a comprehensive report of W3C’s vision and focus; and had informative discussions from industry presenters and keynote speakers. We also […]
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This is an open invitation to all people in the free-software community for genuine person-to-person dialog with people in the W3C staff about DRM on the Web (and any other topics of importance to the Web we all have an interest in discussing). We have a People of the W3C page that lists the names […]
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Since the end of last year the Web Platform Working Group has responsibility for W3C’s HTML spec, as well as many other core specifications. What have we been doing with HTML, and what is the plan? The short story is that we are working toward an HTML 5.1 Recommendation later this year. The primary goals […]
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Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to present our vision of the future of the Internet of Things at the Industry of Things World USA conference in San Diego. Here in a nutshell is what I told them: Conference chairman Jeremy Geelan had started the conference with a retrospective. It took 27 years from […]
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Last week I had the pleasure to present our vision of the future of Web Payments and e-commerce at the NACHA Payments Innovation Alliance meeting in San Francisco. This alliance focuses on modernizing payments in view of technology trends, standards, and security. It was a good opportunity to share our vision of web payments with […]
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The CSV on the Web Working group has published three Working Group Notes. These notes complement the set of Recommendations that have been published in December 2015: the generic Model and the Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data on the Web, as well as the conversion of tabular data to JSON and RDF. The three notes […]
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The W3Cx MOOC training is a W3C initiative that started in June 2015. In just over six months, nearly 200K people enrolled in our HTML5 courses and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Building on these successful results, W3C is proud to strengthen its online course offering on edX with an HTML5 course at the […]
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