W3C Staff, working on next generation of Web technologies (WebRTC, WebXR, Machine Learning), with specific mobile focus; developer at his lost hours. He/Him
The Sovereign Tech Agency is exploring how to better support open source maintainers and contributors who are actively working on technology standards relevant to their open source infrastructure projects.
Open standards are foundational to a healthy open source ecosystem. They enable interoperability, enhance digital sovereignty, foster competition and innovation and ensure that critical digital infrastructure remains accessible and serves the public interest.
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I didn't expect to see so many known faces from the @w3c community at #fosdem. We had lots of great conversations about #webviews, #webstandards and @servo as well. I'm leaving with a long list of TODOs and follow-ups.
Web developers, designers, builders: what do you want W3C to be doing differently? What change (if any) would you like to see? Asking for an Advisory Board.
@niklasmerz I will be, and so will a bunch of webdx-ers
@courtbouillon avec plaisir :) je serai principalement dans la salle Browsers & Web Platform le premier jour, et on peut prendre contact par email s'il faut un rdv plus précis
very excited to be attending my very first #FOSDEM next week end in Brussels. Hit me up if you're there too and want to chat on Web standards & open source!
At #w3cTPAC in Kobe 🇯🇵, several W3C chartered work groups as well as community-run groups had #AI on their group meeting's agenda. For example, #WebNN got fresh proposals (dynamic shapes, tensor binding), and WebMCP got more in-depth discussion as way to let web apps expose JavaScript-based tools to AI agents integrated in browsers.
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Show you care about the long-term growth of the open, interoperable web that caters for accessibility, privacy, security, and internationalization. #Donate today https://www.w3.org/support-us/
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"The top-line takeaway is chilling: sites that are explicitly designed as SPAs, and which have intentionally opted in to metrics measurement around soft-navigations are seeing one (1) soft-navigation for every full page load on average."
Amazing research and analysis as always from @slightlyoff https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/
On the WebDX community group, we're trying something new to capture signals from you all on features you need but aren't supported across browsers yet.
When you visit caniuse.com, webstatus.dev, or the web features explorer, you might see a little thumbsup icon.
Need that feature? Click the icon to signal your interest and leave a comment!
In other news, the UN recently released a new report on “Making technical standards work for humanity - New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies”. Part of the intro to the report notes how the “W3C has published a statement on Ethical Web Principles that [...] puts internationally recognized human rights at the core of the web platform” which is work I drove, and words I wrote. 😊
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/tools-and-resources/tech-and-human-rights-study-making-technical-standards-work-humanity
2 #Web problems which seem like they might share a solution:
1) You link to a page, but there's a chance that it's gone offline or has a too-steep paywall, so you want to also link to an archive site like web.archive.org or archive.ph. It's possible to put those links adjacent in the HTML, but that stops the UA from doing something intelligent if it receives a 404 or the user otherwise expresses that the main link didn't work.
2) https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19679#issuecomment-1301180085: you're supposed to be able to link to a scheme: url to get to the user's choice of application to handle that scheme, but this leads the user to a dead-end if they have _no_ application for the scheme.
An obvious-solution-that's-probably-wrong: Add a fallbackhref="space separated urls" attribute to link tags, and have browsers automatically load them in sequence if earlier ones "fail", for a definition of "fail" that includes at least 4xx and 5xx HTTP errors and missing protocol handlers.
Edit: Initial very-drafty explainer: https://github.com/jyasskin/handling-unreliable-links
@karlcow 😭
The Security Web Application Guidelines #CommunityGroup wants to understand how developers are using specific web platform #security features, and what the barriers are to the adoption. #WebApps
📢 Take their survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-8DvgiB3AqrFU7tqe0GCoQsh6lfdOHHnUldOzMrtmeQ/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true
🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats
How we listen to and involve developers: Wishes, Signals, and the Shape of Standards
@bkardell and @Meyerweb chat with @w3c's @dontcallmeDOM
https://www.igalia.com/chats/dominique
Since 2011, the @w3c Community Group program has enabled anyone to incubate work toward Web standards, resulting in the creation of 100+ specs, with over 20 reaching Recommendation status.
Ian Jacobs and @dontcallmeDOM are exploring improvements to make it easier for specs with traction to move to standardization, better support groups, and make the status of incubated specs clearer.
Learn more in their presentation from last week: https://www.w3.org/2025/09/03-council-minutes.html (incl. minutes, recording and slides)
It’s that time of year again: #interop2026 is now open for proposals from one and all! The window closes on the 24th of this month, so if there’s something you want to get in front of browser vendors to consider making more interoperable, now’s the time. More here: https://www.igalia.com/2025/09/04/Call-for-Proposals-Interop-2026.html
The W3C @tag is going to Hong Kong in 2 weeks for a face-to-face meeting, and as part of that, a local developer group is hosting us for a developer meetup: https://www.meetup.com/codeaholics/events/310842831/
Wednesday, September 17, 7:00–9:00PM on the 7th Floor of the GoodNotes Office at 8 Observatory Road, Hong Kong
If you'll be in Hong Kong then, I hope to see you and answer your questions! Please boost this and let more people know about it.
This is excellent. 👌🏼
“Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of $8.8 trillion.
Most of it is one person.
And […] not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked.”
Yuuup. Baffling how so many companies depend on open source software without funding it, ever.
Thanks to engineers and advocates for meeting on a Sunday afternoon (before a very full week of other meetings) to talk about human rights in the technical standard-setting process.
https://techpolicy.social/@CenDemTech/114914121122768643
