Payment Request API and Payment Method Identifiers are W3C Recommendations
8 September 2022 | Archive
The Web Payments Working Group have published Recommendations of Payment Request API and Payment Method Identifiers.
Payment Request standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e., web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. Browsers facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user. Payment Method Identifiers defines payment method identifiers and how they are validated, and, where applicable, minted and formally registered with the W3C.
Please see the disposition of comments following review by the W3C Membership.
W3C calls for nominations in the election for the Board of Directors of W3C, Inc.
25 July 2022 | Archive
W3C today called for nominations by W3C Members for people to stand for election in the Board of Directors of W3C, Incorporated. The election is scheduled to begin in a month.
W3C Members will compose a majority of the voting seats of the Board of Directors, to bring a diverse multi-stakeholder perspective from the W3C Membership. The Board of Directors Job Description has more details.
Nominations are listed publicly, as they are made.
First Public Working Draft: Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 4.0
8 September 2022 | Archive
The Math Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 4.0. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this for text.
This specification is intended primarily for those who will be developing or implementing renderers or editors, or software that will communicate using MathML.
About 38 of the MathML tags describe abstract notational structures, while another about 170 provide a way of unambiguously specifying the intended meaning of an expression.
While MathML is human-readable, authors typically will use equation editors, conversion programs, and other specialized software tools to generate MathML.
MathML4 is the 4th version of the language, which started with MathML 1 in 1998.
Geolocation API is a W3C Recommendation
1 September 2022 | Archive
The Devices and Sensors Working Group has published Geolocation API as a W3C Recommendation.The Geolocation API provides access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device.
The Devices and Sensors Working Group is updating this specification in the hope of making it a “living standard”. As such, the Working Group has dropped the “Editions” and aims to continue publishing updated W3C Recommendations of this specification as new features are added or bugs get fixed.
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
19 July 2022 | Archive
The Decentralized Identifier Working Group has published Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 as a W3C Recommendation.
This document defines Decentralized identifiers (DIDs), a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID identifies any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) that the controller of the DID decides that it identifies. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. DIDs are URIs that associate a DID subject with a DID document allowing trustable interactions associated with that subject. Each DID document can express cryptographic material, verification methods, or services, which provide a set of mechanisms enabling a DID controller to prove control of the DID. Please read our Press Release to learn more about this tool to empower everyone on the web with privacy-respecting online identity and consent-based data sharing.
