Another document published by the @w3c Verifiable Credentials #WorkingGroup: "Verifiable Credential Barcodes v1.0".
This specification defines how to embed #VerifiableCredentials in optical barcodes (like those on drivers' licenses) and secure them using a compact format that fit within 150 bytes and can be printed in standard 2D barcodes #FPWD #timetogiveinput
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-barcodes/
Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3c/vc-barcodes/issues/
The @w3c Verifiable Credentials #WorkingGroup published VCALM 1.0. This spec. defines a standardized set of HTTP #APIs for managing the entire lifecycle of #VerifiableCredentials to improve #interoperability between systems. This covers issuance, presentation, verification, and exchange #timetogiveinput #FPWD
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/vcalm-1.0/
Feedback welcome! https://github.com/w3c/vcalm/issues/
@w3c recharters its Internationalization #WorkingGroup through March 2029
▶️ https://www.w3.org/International/groups/wg/charter-2026.html
The group's new work includes HTML Ruby Markup Extensions (better support for phonetic annotations), Ruby Text-to-Speech (#a11y support for #ruby annotations) and Message Resources (for easier localization) #i18n @webi18n
📢 If you believe the Web should speak your language, join or rejoin the group!
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/join/
📢 @w3c Breakouts Day 2026!
🗓️ Join us tomorrow - 25 March 2026, 13:00–14:00 UTC
The MiniApps #WorkingGroup has been exploring how to evolve its work to support emerging hybrid apps like on-the-fly #AIGenerated apps from #chatbot user interactions and OS widgets.
Join @espinr 's session to gather cross-community insights and kick off new standardization work around hybrid apps.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/6c2112e6-f0b2-4201-990b-4d2f0b6443fb/
📢 @w3c Breakouts Day 2026!
🗓️ Join us tomorrow - 25 March 2026, 13:00 –14:00 UTC
The @w3c Pointer Events #WorkingGroup is exploring native gesture support for the web.
Today, #developers rely on 3rd-party solutions or build gesture detection from scratch. The group is considering a core set of gestures like "swipe", "scale", and "rotate" that authors can detect and react to.
Join @patrick_h_lauke's session to give feedback, ideas, and use cases to help shape the #API
▶️ https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/f3397fd7-4725-408d-be80-f5f11637c3fd/
The @w3c #Publishing Maintenance #WorkingGroup issues EPUB Annotations 1.0 as #FPWD, enabling richer reading and improved interoperability #timetogiveinput
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-anno-10/
This document defines a profile of the Web Annotation Data Model for #EPUB publications, enabling annotations such as highlights, notes, and bookmarks to be expressed using embedded #JSON-LD. The spec. also introduces Annotation Sets for packaging and sharing annotations.
Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3ASpec-Annotations
Meet some of the people working to bring back the Yukon Quest in 2027
Just over a month after the race was cancelled, a working group held a special meeting Tuesday night in downtown Whitehorse in the hopes of electing a new board and bringing back the Yukon Quest in 2027.
#YukonQuest #race #workinggroup #board #Whitehorse
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/meet-people-bringing-back-yukon-quest-2027-9.7096228?cmp=rss
The @w3c Privacy #WorkingGroup has published the first draft of a Group Note to help non-experts review systems that use differential privacy (DP). Differential privacy is a modern #privacy technique that lets collect and analyze data while keeping individuals’ contributions hidden.
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/differential-privacy-guidance/
This guide suggests what to pay attention to when evaluating such systems, not how to build them.
Feedback wlc: https://github.com/w3c/differential-privacy-guidance/
The purpose of this document is to provide a high level understanding of the trade-offs that are required when designing and deploying differentially private systems (e.g., privacy, utility, number of trusted parties). Its goal is to enable a less-expert reviewer in their analysis of differentially private systems, and to suggest issues and dimensions to consider when reviewing a system.
The @w3c CSS #WorkingGroup publishes "Selectors Level 5' as #FPWD. The spec. extends Level 4, adding new #CSS selectors #timetogiveinput
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-5/
It introduces time dimensional pseudo-classes (':current', ':past', ':future') e.g. for use in #WebVTT, grid-structural (column) selectors to style HTML tables, heading pseudo-classes (👍 #developers-signal https://github.com/web-platform-dx/developer-signals/issues/384), etc.
Feedback wlc: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/tree/main/selectors-5
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