This week at W3C: Strengthening Web Security, EU ruling on hyperlinks, @web25 Web 25th birthday, etc.

This is the 7-14 February 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends" that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media.

W3C and HTML5 buzz in Twitter

[What was tweeted frequently, or caught my attention. Most recent first (popularity is flagged with a figure —number of times the same URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.)]

• (237) W3C Web Storage, on Smashing Magazine: Creating A Client-Side Shopping Cart
• (61) W3C Blog: Strengthen Web Security on “The Day We Fight Back”, by Wendy Seltzer
• (165) HTML5: Phaser, Desktop and Mobile HTML5 Game Framework
• (42) Last Call: Vibration API
• (29) HTML5: W3C HTML has dropped input type@datetime-local; "little independent value & source of potential developer confusion" [link to github]
• (36) @OpenQRS Tweet: As the Web's 25th anniv approaches- do you remember when you first started using it? http://ow.ly/toxCF @Web25 @w3c ↬@webfoundation
• (174) #web25: @w3c, @web25, @webfoundation, @webwewant promoting the 25th anniversary of the Web

Internet & Open Web

• ZDNet: Good news! Europe's highest court decides not to ruin the Internet, 13 February 2014
• CNET: EU court: Go ahead and hyperlink. It's OK, really, 13 February 2014
• The Guardian: Remembering Aaron Swartz: the open web icon, 12 February 2014
• The Washington Post: No, ‘The Day We Fight Back’ is not like the SOPA/PIPA fight. It’s a bigger challenge, 11 February 2014