Mastodawn

What *really* worries me with the new Chrome Prompt API is not that it shipped regardless of the strong negative sentiment, that it gives websites and extensions free access to your local compute or that it can easily turn into a white-gloved botnet. What worries me is that the Intent document doesn't mention privacy or security even once, nor does it address these concerns in a direct way.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/iR6R7-nQeHI/m/gN4iEGEdAQAJ
#chrome #webStandards #ChromeAI #ChromePromptAPI #PromptAPI

[blink-dev] Intent to Ship: Prompt API

Inautilo 6h ago

#Development #Analyses
Google’s Prompt API · Web standards should not become terms of service https://ilo.im/16cqh1

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#Business #TOS #Google #Chrome #AI #Browser #Privacy #OpenWeb #WebStandards #APIs #WebDev #Frontend

Google’s Prompt API

No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”

Wil.to

World Wide Web Consortium 16h ago

The JSON-LD Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of CBOR-LD 1.0. This spec defines CBOR-LD 1.0, a CBOR-based format to serialize Linked Data. The encoding is designed to leverage the existing JSON-LD ecosystem, which is deployed on hundreds of millions of systems today, to provide a compact serialization format for those seeking efficient encoding schemes for Linked Data.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-cbor-ld-1-0/
#WebStandards #LinkedData

PPC Land 20h ago

FYI: W3C opens Shenzhen office, deepening China's role in web standards: W3C finally opened a Shenzhen Representative Office after 20 years operating in China - what this means for Greater Bay Area and global open web standards. https://ppc.land/w3c-opens-shenzhen-office-deepening-chinas-role-in-web-standards/ #W3C #WebStandards #ChinaTechnology #Shenzhen #GreaterBayArea

W3C opens Shenzhen office, deepening China's role in web standards

W3C finally opened a Shenzhen Representative Office after 20 years operating in China - what this means for Greater Bay Area and global open web standards.

PPC Land

World Wide Web Consortium 1d ago

The Web Performance Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of Long Animation Frames API. 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.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/first-public-working-draft-long-animation-frames-api/
#WebStandards #WebPerformance

World Wide Web Consortium 2d ago

On the W3C blog, @seth wrote about "Age-restrictions on the web and user privacy and safety"

"A few of the unintended consequences that we are collectively grappling with are privacy violations, gatekeeping, fragmentation, data breaches, anonymity violations, and increased phishing risk...

In many cases, the issues appear to be more than age-based, they are safety-based, privacy-based"
Read more including about the new Community Group at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2026/age-restrictions-on-the-web-and-user-privacy-and-safety/
#AgeVerification #WebStandards

Age-restrictions on the web and user privacy and safety

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs shares his thoughts about age-restrictions and user privacy on the web — a topic that was at the heart of the October W3C/IAB workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content, and recent W3C Members conversations.

W3C

W3C Internationalization, i18n 2d ago

Thrilled to announce that issue #550 in Chinese Layout Requirements (clreq) has been fixed! Emphasis dots now stay properly centre-aligned with the text even after letter-spacing is increased.

https://github.com/w3c/clreq/issues/550

#i18n #WebStandards

World Wide Web Consortium 2d ago

An Online Safety Community Group has been created at W3C.

The mission of this group is to provide a discussion forum about the technical and architectural considerations for online safety, including safety for children online. While many see a particular interest in bolstering safety for vulnerable populations such as children, safety is important to all users of the Web.

learn more at:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2026Apr/0015.html
#WebStandards #OnlineSafety #AgeVerification

Online Safety Community Group created from Do Not Reply on 2026-04-30 ([email protected] from April 2026)

PPC Land 2d ago

ICYMI: W3C opens Shenzhen office, deepening China's role in web standards: W3C finally opened a Shenzhen Representative Office after 20 years operating in China - what this means for Greater Bay Area and global open web standards. https://ppc.land/w3c-opens-shenzhen-office-deepening-chinas-role-in-web-standards/ #W3C #WebStandards #Shenzhen #China #GreaterBayArea

W3C opens Shenzhen office, deepening China's role in web standards

W3C finally opened a Shenzhen Representative Office after 20 years operating in China - what this means for Greater Bay Area and global open web standards.

PPC Land

The Fulcrum ⚒️ ⛓️‍💥 🏴‍☠️3d ago

Hidde's Blog shares: Open web vs AI: what can W3C do? https://hidde.blog/web-ai-breakout/ #WebStandards #FuckAI
The push notifications idea should definitely be explored.

Open web vs AI: what can W3C do?

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.

Hidde's blog