#CommunityGroup
The proposed @w3c Social Web #WorkingGroup charter focuses on maintaining and updating key social Web standards, such as #ActivityPub, Activity Streams, WebSub, Activity Vocabulary, MicroPub, Linked Data Notifications and Webmention, taking up from the maintenance and incubation work conducted in the Social Web Incubator #CommunityGroup.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/2025/11/proposed-socialwg-charter.html
Feedback and input welcome: https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20%5Bwg%2Fsocial%5D
The Security Web Application Guidelines #CommunityGroup wants to understand how developers are using specific web platform #security features, and what the barriers are to the adoption. #WebApps
📢 Take their survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-8DvgiB3AqrFU7tqe0GCoQsh6lfdOHHnUldOzMrtmeQ/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true
📢 #w3cTPAC group update!
Since last year, @wot has grown rapidly—launching new tutorials, hosting meetups, and expanding its Discord community by over 50%. Highlights include WoT Week showcased cross-domain demos and collaborations. Rooted in open source, the Web of Things #CommunityGroup continues to evolve through global contributions and welcomes newcomers on GitHub and Discord. #IoT
🎬 Watch the #WoT group update: https://youtu.be/0uo37Q6DdWg
Last week in Barcelona 🇪🇸, @simone, @w3c's #security lead, ran a "Threat Modeling with LEGO© SERIOUS PLAY©" hands-on workshop to explore digital identity risks.
Participants built physical models of harms (e.g. profiling, discrimination, misuse of data) and then derived threats from them. The process helped visualize risks and connect social, ethical, and technical issues beyond traditional threat modeling.
Get involved in the #CommunityGroup: https://www.w3.org/community/tmcg/
Sent in from a grassroots group:
Queer art club is on this Sunday, come do some arts and crafts or just hang out with other queer folks! Email queerartclub.ky@gmail.com for location.
📻 Listen to @tidoust's #SoftwareEngineeringRadio podcast! As @w3c staff member, he begins by stressing the consensus-driven nature of W3C @#WebStandards. And in his role of co-chair of the Web Developer Experience (#WebDX) #CommunityGroup, François emphasizes how communication with #developers is critical, focusing on raising awareness about browser compatibility and the maturity of new features, via the baseline badges in @mdn, #caniuse and other feature catalogs.
▶️ https://se-radio.net/2025/09/se-radio-686-francois-daoust-on-w3c/
📣 TODAY at 9am ET! Join the WebDX #CommunityGroup for an #AMA on Reddit
It's still time to post your questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1ncq269/we_are_the_w3c_webdx_community_group_working_to/
... to @tidoust, @patrickbrosset, @kadirtopal, @foolip, @rachelandrew, Rick Viscomi, Jeremy Wagner, James Stuckey Weber and Daniel Beck.
#AskMeAnything
The newly created Web Identity & Credentials Adoption #CommunityGroup aims to boost adoption and ease development with emerging web identity and credential technologies, fostering a more secure, private, and user-friendly web.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/community/wica/
The group will drive progress by developing #BestPractices, targeted educational materials, and a collaborative space for #developers and industry partners.
Anyone may join the group! https://www.w3.org/community/wica/join
📢 Curious about Baseline, developer surveys, or the web platform's evolution? And how individual #developers can get involved and make their voice heard?
The @w3c WebDX #CommunityGroup is hosting an #AMA on Reddit, on September 18 starting at 9:00am ET!
Post your questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1ncq269/we_are_the_w3c_webdx_community_group_working_to/
#AskMeAnything #baseline #interoperability #compatibility #WebPlatform
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
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