During the @w3c meeting in April 2025, @plehegar, co-chair of the Process #CommunityGroup reported that the W3C Process document has been updated to align with bylaws and streamline workflows.
Changes include removing the #ProposedRecommendation step, defining a new charter refinement process with simplified appeal rules, relaxing voting and consent thresholds, and allowing more groups to create registries.
🎬 Watch "Process Community Group Update": https://youtu.be/RX8CzWa1U0o
Last April, @domenic reported that 7 AI LLM-based APIs are being developed in the @w3c web machine learning #CommunityGroup.
▶️ https://webmachinelearning.github.io/incubations/
These APIs raise new #privacy and #security concerns and must keep pace with rapid #AI advances. As part of the #Chrome team, he suggests prioritizing high-level APIs, improving testing methods, and engaging ML experts in web standards to broaden AI accessibility for #developers.
🎬 Watch 'LLM-based APIs in browsers': https://youtu.be/N_4TUhsApHI
As co-chair of the @w3c WebExtensions #CommunityGroup, Simeon Vincent explains how web extensions—now embraced by major #browsers—enable a unified, web-based approach to browser extension development.
The group promotes cross-browser collaboration, responds to #developers needs, and works toward consistent implementation. Plans are underway to expand into both a feedback-driven community group and a specification-focused working group.
🎬 Watch "Web extensions at W3C": https://youtu.be/ltB9zqu82wI
In this talk, @patrickbrosset, of the @w3c WebDX #CommunityGroup, covers two key efforts that both aim to make the #WebPlatform clearer and more accessible for #developers:
- web-features is a unified and shared catalog of features for consistent documentation and collaboration.
- Baseline simplifies this data by labeling features as “widely,” “newly,” or “limited” in availability, to help developers quickly assess feature support.
🎬 Watch "web-features and Baseline": https://youtu.be/QzfwNFIXOkM
The WebDX #CommunityGroup at @w3cdevs have reached a milestone in their efforts to catalogue #Web browser baseline features, and that's great! ❤️
But I worry that some #developers will look at graphs like this one and think "more features == better". And I'm not sure whether or not that's actually true. From some #DX perspectives (and many #UX perspectives), widespread implementation of a new feature can be a net harm, not good.
🔗 Deeper dive (choose your preferred medium!):
- https://danq.me/webdx-does-more-mean-better
- gemini://danq.me/posts/webdx-does-more-mean-better
- https://textplain.blog/does-more-mean-better
[Security at W3C]
Last video from the @w3c SWAG #CommunityGroup meeting where Aaron Sim lists 3 meta questions:
- What’s the best UI to nudge #developers toward adopting security mitigations?
- How can we improve ecosystem-wide security for external code (e.g., node modules)?
- And how can we better promote #security practices among web developers?
🎬 https://youtu.be/CHsS48IcZ20
The full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNhYw8KaLq2Wr27HLfSTD4d6JpC3G0PVr
Plotting browser support data in a catalog shows the evolution of the web platform in terms of number and availability of features.
The @w3c WebDX #CommunityGroup has completed a first nearly complete catalog of web features targeted at web #developers, along with support data across main #browsers. The catalog already powers @mdn, Can I use, and is now being integrated in tools and libraries.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/first-catalog-of-web-features-completed-by-the-webdx-community-group/
Feedback welcome! https://github.com/web-platform-dx/web-features
Based on the @w3c workshop "Secure the Web Forward” and thanks to work taking place in the W3C Security Web Application Guidelines (SWAG) #CommunityGroup, we are happy to release 6 videos that address the complexities of Content Security Policy and Trusted Types, by introducing open-source tooling that reduce uncertainty and complexity of configuring web #security mitigations against XSS.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/how-to-protect-your-web-applications-from-xss/
cc @simone @torgo
🎬 Security at W3C playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNhYw8KaLq2Wr27HLfSTD4d6JpC3G0PVr
📢 The @w3c Credible Web #CommunityGroup is hosting a mini-workshop series to review proposals aimed at combating #misinformation on the web:
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/authentic-web-workshop/
The first session on March 12 2025, will discuss a framework [https://kwz.me/hF8] for assessing tools and advancing proposals to interoperable standards.
Attendance is free and open to all!!
🆕 @w3c launches the Private Advertising Technology (PAT) #WorkingGroup
▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pat/
Motivated by the @tag's Ethical Web Principles, this group aims to define web features and #APIs that support advertising without compromising user #privacy. The group will produce specifications for user agents, building on work incubated in the #CommunityGroup.
🎬 Watch @Chronotope giving an excellent overview of the PAT work, back in 2022 at #w3cdevs2022, Vancouver 🇨🇦: https://www.w3.org/2022/09/meetup/speaker-aram.html
🆕 @w3c has launched the Sustainable Web #InterestGroup to create guidelines and best practices for addressing #sustainability challenges in digital technology affecting both people and the planet.
Drawing from the SustyWeb #CommunityGroup’s work, the group will release the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0, designed for end-users, tool developers, educators, and policymakers.
➡️ https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/
Read @tzviya's post: https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-web-interest-group-is-formed/
#w3cTPAC
Several @w3c groups have created videos showcasing work updates and demos.
Check out what's happening in the WebDX, WoT and #Solid #CommunityGroups, as well as in the #Accessibility Guidelines and #CSS #WorkingGroups!
Taking over the Privacy #InterestGroup's role in reviewing and advising other groups on enhancing user privacy in Web standards, the group will also develop the Global Privacy Control (GPC) spec., which defines a signal sent via HTTP and the DOM to request that #websites do not sell or share personal information with third parties.
▶️ https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/
GPC has been incubated in the Privacy #CommunityGroup, and anchors its signal in several existing legal frameworks: https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/#legal-effects
#w3cTPAC
Over the past 2 years of renewed activity within the @w3c @wot #CommunityGroup, numerous organizations, open-source projects, and researchers have demonstrated how they are incorporating #WoT into their technology stacks across a variety of industries, incl. building and factory automation, energy, smart homes, and scientific instrumentation.
🎬 “Where is WoT?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZsLXaJqRw
cc @ege @crisdev
#w3cTPAC
🎬 #developers, watch this presentation of the @w3c #WebDX #CommunityGroup: https://youtu.be/-LYBTdo189w
@patrickbrosset showcases efforts to catalog web platform features for integration into documentation sites and tools.This supports the #Baseline concept, helping developers understand current web capabilities.
Patrick also outlines the group's progress, its impact on @MDN, Can I Use, and more, ending with a call to join and contribute!!
https://github.com/web-platform-dx
#w3cTPAC
@csarven, of the @w3c #Solid #CommunityGroup, gives a demo of dokieli, a fully decentralized, browser-based authoring and annotation platform with built-in support for social interactions.
Dokieli makes use of various technical specifications such as Solid Protocol and Web Access Control that have been developed in the Solid Community Group.
▶️ https://dokie.li/
🎬 Watch the demo! https://youtu.be/_CpOxEkmYwk
cc @yesvirginia
#w3cTPAC
The Per Resource Events Protocol (PREP) provides an alternative mechanism for notifications in #Solid
With PREP, apps get the current resource and notifications in one #HTTP request. Notifications can be content-negotiated, allowing different formats like metadata or representation deltas based on client preferences.
🎬 In this video, Rahul Gupta, of the @w3c Solid #CommunityGroup, explains the fundamental concepts of PREP.
▶️ https://youtu.be/_IhysuBKz6Y
cc @yesvirginia
Newly created @w3c #WorkingGroup: "Linked Web Storage"!
The group's mission is to create #WebApps with loosely coupled data storage, #authentication, and access control by standardizing a #protocol between apps and identity/storage servers.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/lws/
The group will deliver the Linked Web Storage Protocol specification, based among other input on the the #Solid Protocol developed by the Solid #CommunityGroup
The @w3c SVG #WorkingGroup has been chartered until 30 June 2026 with the mission to maintain the #SVG specification.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/2024/04/svg-wg.html
The SVG group will also focus on testing the core SVG spec. to ensure quality and completeness, making necessary changes for better integration with #CSS and #HTML.
No new features or proposals will be introduced; these will be handled by forums like the SVG #CommunityGroup or the Web Incubator #CommunityGroup.
https://www.w3.org/community/groups/
📢 @openwebdocs published its "Impact and Transparency Report 2023":
▶️ https://openwebdocs.org/content/reports/2023/
Notably, OWD both contributed and reviewed the greatest number of pull requests to the @MDN content and browser compat data repos. It also completed the PWA doc rewrite and compat data updates. It joined @w3c WebDX #CommunityGroup (cc @tidoust and @patrickbrosset) to define baseline, and started Web security doc. research, etc., etc.
@dontcallmeDOM (W3C) is a member of OWD's governing committee.
