☞ today November 30 is the 18th Blue Beanie Day, an annual international celebration and support of web standards.
Thanks to all who help develop standards, promote the open web, and thanks to @zeldman for starting it in 2007!
Today we invite you to (re)discover what #W3C does (01:07 video)
https://www.w3.org/about/press-media/#logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bXp8Eet0HM (video with audio description)
6/6 📄 Full documentation available (open standards):
→ D5.3 Sectoral Rulebook: detailed architecture
→ D5.1 Business Blueprint: ROI validation
→ D5.2 DSTRL: 36 case study results
🔗 https://www.dc4eu.eu/reports/
🇪🇺 Co-funded by the European Union's Digital Europe Programme (Grant Agreement 101102611)
#DC4EU #EUfunded #DigitalCredentials #eIDAS2 #EuropeanEducationArea #ProfessionalQualifications #OpenSource #W3C
3/6 ✅ SOLUTION: Hybrid two-layer architecture
LAYER 1 - Classical PKI:
• X.509v3 certificates for legal entity identification
• Compatibility with existing PKI infrastructure
• Familiar trust mechanisms for IT teams
LAYER 2 - VDRs/EBSI (dPKI):
• Governance authorisation in verifiable registries
• DISINTERMEDIATED verification (no "phone home")
• Automatic cross-border interoperability via EBSI Trusted Issuers Registry
Clipboard API and serialization of styles/html is a funny thing for Web content. 🤯
https://github.com/w3c/clipboard-apis/issues/246#issuecomment-3587985265
This is a sibling bug of #233 When copying a piece of html from a Webpage, browsers have different strategies with regards to the CSS serialization values. Firefox has the most simplistic style of ...
"A glimmer of hope." ✨ Next stop: #TPAC 2025—#W3C’s annual conference, this year in Kōbe, with significant updates on #WebML & #WebApps. Devs on Reddit read our minutes and called our work on #WebInstall "a glimmer of hope." This is exactly why I do this! https://www.reddit.com/r/PWA/comments/1oub6ml/web_install_api_a_glimmer_of_hope/
*Deadline extended to register as a speaker*
#W3C Virtual #Workshop on Smart Voice Agent from 25–27 Feb 2026.
The event aims to identify stakeholders and discuss challenges, gaps, and opportunities in #VoiceAgent #standardization, including:
Use cases for smart voice agents (devices, browsers, #webofthings )
#Accessibility, #usability, and #multimodal #interaction
#Trust, #privacy
Participation is free and open to all. Submit your talk proposal by Dec 11, 2025.
See: https://w3c.github.io/smartagents-work
Chrome va dégager #XSLT de son navigateur 😬 : https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/deprecating-xslt
Pourquoi c'est mauvais pour le web ouvert :
- Supprime un standard W3C vieux de 20 ans, cassant sites web, appareils embarqués, flux RSS et documentation qui en dépendent.
- Ajoute de la complexité côté serveur : XSLT permettait des serveurs légers envoyant du XML brut, maintenant ça va être un framework JS.
- Affecte les flux RSS
- Moins de pouvoir côté utilisateur sur les flux XML.
C'est moche !
larinyo
World Wide Web Consortium
spidey 
Karl Dubost
Christian Liebel
Dirk Schnelle-Walka
Arnaud Mangasaryan (Ramenos)
G_M_Mbth