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W3C once again joined The Web Conference, previously known as the WWW Conference, for The Web Conference 2018 which took place last week in Lyon and featured a W3C track, exhibition booth, and tutorials. W3C Tutorials took place on Monday and Tuesday of the week with a focus on Data Visualization, Audio on the Web, […]
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On 12 March we celebrate an event which has both historically changed the world and is key to creating and empowering its future. In March 1989, while at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee wrote his memo “Information Management: A Proposal” which outlined the World Wide Web. Today we celebrate a Web that is: Universal, International and truly […]
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I am happy to announce that we are partnering with Catchpoint who are helping us set up our first “Ask Me Anything” session, in partnership with O’Reilly. The first W3C AMA session takes place on Zoom.us this Thursday, December 14, at 1800Z, and the topic is WebAssembly. WebAssembly is poised to help change the landscape […]
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We are hearing a great deal of anger, concerns and disagreement –in the Press, in e-mail we’ve received, and in response on Social Media. We have been reading and hearing assertions that we made a mistake when we published Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) as a W3C Recommendation. A lot has been written about EME in […]
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On Saturday 24 June 2017, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Director of the W3C will be awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Prize. This video from the ACM outlines Sir Tim’s work on the Web and his thoughts on the award. A few quotes from this short documentary particularly resonated with […]
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W3C statement in the wake of recent changes that may hurt our worldwide collaboration: Global cooperation is critical to the development of the World Wide Web. Contributors to and implementors of Web standards come together from around the world to specify and build an interoperable platform for information exchange, the Open Web Platform. Our Team […]
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It is our pleasure to announce that Dave Raggett, W3C lead for the Web of Things; and Georg Rehm, Manager of the German / Austrian Office of W3C, will hold a workshop at Industry of Things Worls in Berlin, Germany on Monday September 19, 2016. Workshop description: The value of the Internet of Things will […]
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W3C is creating numerous opportunities and events this year during the TPAC 2016 week in Lisbon, Portugal, 19-23 September 2016: Monday Developer Meetup (Web Payment demo, a11y, Webauthn, Flexbox, IndieWeb, etc.) Tuesday breakfast with CEO Jeff Jaffe for W3C group Chairs Technical Plenary Day breakout sessions (Read and submit breakout topics in wiki) Publishing Community […]
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Linux Weekly News published a recent story called “Encrypted Media Extensions and exit conditions”, Cory Doctorow followed by publishing “W3C DRM working group chairman vetoes work on protecting security researchers and competition”. While the former is a more accurate account of the status, we feel obligated to offer corrections and clarifications to the latter, and […]
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Today is Tim Berners-Lee‘s birthday and we’d like to wish him a very happy birthday and many happy returns of the day. Happy birthday, Tim! We are so grateful that you invented the Web 27 years ago! and that you are shepherding us, at the W3C (the Team, our members and all our 40+ Working Groups in our work including: […]
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