W3C Opens Advisory Board (AB) Special Election
2 December 2022 | Archive
The W3C Advisory Committee has nominated eleven individuals, and is invited today to vote until 14 January 2023 in the special election for the W3C Advisory Board to fill four vacated seats as of January 2023.
Created in March 1998, the Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the W3C Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. The Advisory Board hears a Submission Appeal when a Member Submission is rejected for reasons unrelated to Web architecture. For several years, the AB has conducted its work in a public wiki.
The elected Members of the Advisory Board participate as individual contributors and not representatives of their organizations. Advisory Board participants use their best judgment to find the best solutions for the Web, not just for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user.
W3C opens Technical Architecture Group (TAG) election
15 November 2022 | Archive
The W3C Advisory Committee, having nominated seven individuals, is invited today to vote until 13 December 2022 for three seats in the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) election.
The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered under the W3C Process Document, with stewardship of the Web architecture. Some aspects of its mission include:
- to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and
to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
- to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the
TAG;
- to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and
outside W3C.
CSS Snapshot 2022 Draft Note Published
23 November 2022 | Archive
The CSS Working Group has published a first public Draft Note of CSS Snapshot 2022. This document collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as of 2022. The primary audience is CSS implementers, not CSS authors, as this definition includes modules by specification stability, not Web browser adoption rate.
CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.
Upcoming: W3C Workshop on Permissions
12 October 2022 | Archive
W3C announced today a Workshop on Permissions, 5–6 December 2022, in Munich, Germany. The event is hosted by Google.
The W3C Workshop on Permissions brings together security and privacy experts, UI/UX designers and researchers, browser vendors, OS developers, API authors, web publishers and users. We aim to address the privacy, security and usability challenges involved in controlling access to an increasingly powerful set of capabilities on the Web and other platforms.
The scope includes:
- user concerns and preferences, including those of vulnerable individuals and communities;
- better alignment of permission lifetime/duration with user tasks;
- risks and benefits of human-centric grouping/categorization of permissions and applications;
- challenges with novel capabilities;
- capability abuse threat models and mitigations;
- scoping of permissions to origins vs. applications, relation to same origin policy;
- UIs and controls;
- integrated permission control surfaces tailored to the capability itself;
- permission transparency, accountability, and control; and
- balancing well-specified permissions UX in standards with the ability for implementers to meet the future user and product requirements.
We aim to share experiences and user studies, leading to common understanding of how to ensure user comprehension and control of powerful capabilities while managing cognitive load.
Attendance is free for all invited participants and is open to the public, whether or not W3C members.
For more information on the workshop, please see the workshop details and submission instructions.
