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From Vision Task Force

Interop project and WebDX

• Replace the acid tests: Place a spotlight on parts of the Web platform
• Collaboration between Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft and Mozilla
• Leverage web-platform-tests
• Interop 2023:
• Interop 2023 dashboard
• WebDX CG: Improving the Web Developer Experience

Colors

Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range for the Web

• Going beyond sRGB: HDR..
• Color primitives for the Web: CSS, Canvas, PNG, etc.
• CSS color() function

CSS

• 53 specifications implemented in 3 web engines
• Grid, Flex box have been making good progress
• Evolution of CSS: CSS Snapshots

Fonts

• Improving font loading for large character sets
• Incremental Font Transfer: Range Request, Patch Subset
• Patch Subset method for Incremental Font Transfer, Explained

AI/Machine Learning

• Neural Network API (WebNN): hardware-agnostic abstraction layer for NN inference
• Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning: Bias, Fairness, Privacy, Environmental Impact & Sustainability, etc.
• Crawling web data to make datasets?
• AI KR (Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation) CG: conceptualization and specification of domain knowledge in AI

GPU for the Web

• Match the design of modern GPUs
• Still in development/refinements but getting close
• Relationship with WebNN?

Video: Transport and Codecs

• WebTransport: API to leverage HTTP2 and HTTP3
• WebCodecs: interfaces to codecs for encoding and decoding of audio, video, and images.
• Video Frame Processing on the Web: WebAssembly, WebGPU, WebGL, WebCodecs, WebNN, and WebTransport

Private Advertising

• Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs): address advertising use cases while meeting privacy guarantees.
• attribution and reporting using private computation
• multi-party computation (MPC) vs trusted execution environments (TEEs)
• Ongoing: WG charter

WASM

Web Assembly proposals

• v.next: tail call, extended constant expression
• proposals: GC & strings, tool conventions, Type system properties, Relaxed SIMD
• Focus is on server-side but projects like Flutter are focused on client-side
• Exposing Web APIs to WASM remains to be done

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

WCAG 2.2

New success criteria: focus not obscured, authentication

WCAG 3.0

different conformance model (atomic vs holistic), broader scope

Web Sustainability Guidelines

• The web must be an environmentally sustainable platform - W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles
• SustyWeb CG: Evidence backed guidelines similar to WCAG for Web Sustainability
• Sustainability CG: discuss all aspects of sustainability (s12y) with respect to web technologies

Identity, Credentials, Authentication

• Digital identity: Decentralized Identifers and Verifiable Credentials
• Web Identity: ISO/IEC 18013-5 mobile documents (mDoc), W3C VC /VP, OpenID Connect ID Tokens, and SAML assertions
• Identity for WebRTC
• Web Authentication and Secure Payment Confirmation
• Intersection with Web of Things?

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