@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 @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

The @w3c Web Machine Learning #WorkingGroup invites implementations of an updated #CandidateRecommendation Snapshot of the WebNN #API. Most notable additions include a third wave of operators for enhanced transformers support, the MLTensor API for buffer sharing, and a new abstract device selection mechanism #timetoimplement #MachineLearning

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

Explainer: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/blob/main/explainer.md

Feedback wlc: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/