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Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3
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This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.
First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 User Interfaces
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This specification describes Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) User Interfaces.
Group Note Draft: Threat Model for the Web
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This document describes the Threat Model for the Web and include the Web Security Model and may include the goals that have not yet been achieved across the whole web platform, but which will still be applied in reviews of new and changed specifications.
IMSC Text Profile 1.3 is now a W3C Recommendation
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This specification defines a text-only profile of ttml2 intended for subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide.
First Public Working Draft: Recognized Entities v1.0
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This specification describes a data model with which one or more recognized entities, such as one or more persons and/or organizations, can be described as known to perform specific actions, such as issuing or verifying a verifiable credential.
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
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The W3C Advisory Committee has elected four individuals to the W3C Advisory Board (AB) .
W3C Establishes Representative Office in Shenzhen, China
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W3C issued a Press Release at the occasion of the launch of our W3C Representative Office in Shenzhen, China in April 2026.
First Public Working Draft: Long Animation Frames API
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This document defines an API that web page authors can use to detect presence of "long animation frames" that monopolize the UI thread for extended periods of time and block other critical tasks from being executed - e.g. reacting to user input.
First Public Working Draft: CBOR-LD 1.0
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CBOR is a compact binary data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines CBOR-LD 1.0, a CBOR-based format to serialize Linked Data.
Upcoming: W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL
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A workshop to examine broad and specific aspects since ODRL became a W3C Recommendation in 2018 and gained robust recognition and adoption.