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First Public Working Draft: Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching
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This document builds upon Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals to provide authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby increase interoperability.
First Public Working Draft: Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata
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This document describes the best practices for identifying the language and direction for strings used on the Web.
First Public Working Draft: CSS Linked Parameters Module Level 1
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This spec introduces a way to pass CSS values into linked resources, such as SVG images, so that they can be used as CSS custom environment variables in the destination resource.
Group Note Draft: Linked Web Storage Vocabulary
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This document describes the Linked Web Storage Vocabulary, i.e., the RDF Schema vocabulary used by the Linked Web Storage Protocol.
Group Note Draft: What’s New in RDF 1.2
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This document provides the reader with a summary of changes to RDF introduced in RDF version 1.2.
First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Profiling
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SHACL Profiling defines elements of the SHACL Shapes Constraint Language created to allow for profiles of SHACL and profiling with SHACL.
Pointer Events Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation
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The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
Group Note Draft: W3C Standards Vulnerability Disclosure & Handling Process and Policy
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This document defines how to report suspected security vulnerabilities in W3C standards and specifications (technical reports), so that issues can be triaged, confirmed, and resolved through the appropriate W3C processes.
First Public Working Draft: Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0
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This specification describes a mechanism for issuers of verifiable credentials to publish indexed lists of compact cryptographic witnesses.
W3C opens Inclusion Fund and Invited Expert Fund for TPAC 2026
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W3C opens applications for travel support for TPAC 2026 to help reduce barriers for participation and increase diversity at TPAC, acknowledging the positive contributions of participants and Invited Experts who have shown commitment through their positive contributions to the work of W3C groups.