W3C today published the report from the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy held at Princeton University in April. The large and diverse group of participants had an engaging discussion yielding consensus on the importance, time-sensitivity and complexity of the issue and revealing promising areas for standards work. We encourage interested parties to continue discussion on the public mailing list, including on the possibility of W3C forming new groups in this area.

W3C thanks the participants and appreciates the support of the Workshop sponsors: Adobe, Yahoo!, Google, Mozilla and Microsoft.

The Web Performance Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Resource Timing. This specification defines an interface for web applications to access timing information related to HTML elements. User latency is an important quality benchmark for Web Applications. While JavaScript-based mechanisms can provide comprehensive instrumentation for user latency measurements within an application, in many cases, they are unable to provide a complete end-to-end latency picture. While the Navigation Timing specification address part of the problem by providing timing information associated with a navigation, this document introduces the ResourceTiming interface to allow Javascript mechanisms to collect complete timing information related to resources on a document. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3. This draft contains the features of CSS level 3 relating to list styling. The main extensions compared to CSS Level 2 are a pseudo-element representing the list marker, a new hanging value for list-style-position, and a method for authors to define their own list-styles. Learn more about the Style Activity.