🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️

🙋🏽‍♀️ Is there is an HTML feature or Web API you're dying to see progress on? Suggest it and it could be included!

Browsers fund these surveys to see what matters to devs — so if others care too, it can really help. E.g. these surveys are the reason we have CSS Nesting.

⌛️ The survey is launching later this month, so time is of the essence!

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2025/design-state-of-html/

"Privacy on the web: creating a more trustworthy web" by W3C CEO @seth

"Creating a more trustworthy web and protecting user privacy is fundamental to creating a web that works, for everyone.

To affirmatively realize the privacy of people using the web and address privacy threats that have already arisen requires us to operate in an interdisciplinary and global space, and to develop dedicated privacy features."
https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/privacy-on-the-web-creating-a-more-trustworthy-web/

Last week the @tag published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. This document elaborates on the privacy principle from the Ethical Web Principles: "Security and privacy are essential."

Privacy is an essential part of the web. The document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform. #privacy

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/

The W3C @tag has published the Privacy Principles as a W3C Statement. Privacy is an essential part of the web.

This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that should guide the development of the web as a trustworthy platform.

People using the web would benefit from a stronger relationship between technology and policy, and this document is written to work with both. #privacy
https://www.w3.org/news/2025/privacy-principles-is-a-w3c-statement/

After the Ethical Web Principles published as a W3C statement last December, the Privacy Principles developed by @tag have just been published as another W3C Statement, i.e. endorsed as a position by the W3C community.
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/
https://w3c.social/@w3cdevs/113640974986451679

Congrats to editors @robin and @jyasskin !

🗳️ The @ab election is now underway. @w3c members have until 30 May 2025 to choose 7 Advisory Board Representatives from 10 candidates.

They are: Brent Zundel (Tradeverifyd), Avneesh Singh (DAISY Consortium), Hiroshi Ota (LY), @torgo (Samsung Electronics), @tantek.com (Mozilla), Song Xu (China Mobile Communications), Jaunita Flessas (Navy Federal Credit Union), @hober (Apple), Mike Jackson (Microsoft) and @hdv (Logius).

Read their statements: https://www.w3.org/2025/04/ab-nominations

"Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed" has been published as a W3C Draft finding by @tag

"Third-party (AKA cross-site) cookies are harmful to the web, and must be removed from the web platform. This finding explains why they must be removed, and examines the challenges in removing them. We highlight some use cases that depend on third-party cookies and offer some examples of designed-for-purpose technologies that can replace them."
https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/