#w3c
We had 46 people in the session on the future of #ActivityPub and related, hosted by #Fediforum and the #W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG). I'm told that was the largest SWICG meeting in history.
And so many implementors were there and spoke up what they need! There's real momemtum.
/cc @fediforum
Today ZOOM call W3C’s Social Web Incubator Community Group
The Future of ActivityPub Standardization and Related Subjects
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 10-11am pacific daylight savings time.
call for review for ARIA 1.2 https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9864 #w3c #a11y #accessibility #ariaNotEntertained
#Dreaming of a truly delay/disruption tolerant, #decentralized, citizen owned--&-run, ad-free, spam-free, private-&-secure (by default), solar system spanning, open-&-free #internet, without limiting middle boxes
Where "social network" means #UseNet and #IRC,
The #WorldWideWeb" is mostly remembered as (1) a clear lack of imagination and (2) a cautionary tall against feature creep because in the long run bloat is deadly
The story goes that #W3C allowed #WWW to become an increasingly complex mess that in the end just could not be sustainable supported, first the community run open source browsers fell, than one by one the corporate run, until there was only one left which quickly became stagnate without competition
We learned not to make those mistakes again, newer protocols know to stay nimble, to keep it simple, to be modular, to make modules optional and to degrade gracefully when not available
My wish list for future #Fediverse standardization work in the #W3C on #ActivityPub and related activities. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230425-w3c-activitypub-wishlist/
We'll have some discussions on this at #FediForum this week. You can still register and participate https://fediforum.org/ !
This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web! #Accessibility #W3C
To make some definite progress, I've advance-called a session at next week's #FediForum on the future of #ActivityPub standardization and related subjects. It will take place:
10am pacific time next Wednesday, March 29, online, and be joint with the #W3C's Social Web Interest Community Group -- the informal successor of the standards group.
Someone I worked with for a few years for #w3c work wrote a very nice testimonial to me and a few colleagues <3
"I learnt a huge amount working with you all, it was a once in a lifetime experience. I can honestly say that working with you and the rest of the team gave me the knowledge and experience which will be of great help to me in my new role!"
Someone I worked with for a few years for #w3c work wrote a very nice testimonial to me and a few colleagues <3
"I learnt a huge amount working with you all, it was a once in a lifetime experience. I can honestly say that working with you and the rest of the team gave me the knowledge and experience which will be of great help to me in my new role!"
#Development #Introductions
Open UI and the Popover API · It’s time to handle our basic popovers without the explicit need of JavaScript https://ilo.im/11tic2
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#W3C #OpenUI #PopoverAPI #Popover #Popup #Tooltip #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #CSS #Accessibility #A11y
There's rarely a page I mark up that doesn't have me wishing that the long-since proposed <lt>/<lc>/<lh> tag were adopted. The …
<p>In the Power of Love, FGTH sang about:</p>
<ul>
<li>flowers</li>
<li>pearls</li>
<li>pretty girls</li>
</ul>
… pattern is ubiquitous yet has always felt awkward compared to:
<ul>
<lt>Frankie says:</lt>
<li>live those dreams</li>
<li>scheme those schemes</li>
<li>hit me with those laser beams</li>
<li>relax</li>
</ul>
Just came across this article: Decentralized Social Media Rises as Twitter Melts Down
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media
#JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #W3C #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #TwitterRIP
Do you use indieauth?
Check out my blog post on implementing indieauth and enabling h-entry on my website using Datenstrom Yellow Flat File CMS.
https://lifeofpablo.com/blog/i-added-indielogin-to-my-site-and-making-it-h-entry-compatible
#indie #indieauth #indieweb #community #w3c #opensource #datenstrom #cms #implementation #hentry
It's such a huge failure of the #webStandards bodies that slippy maps are STILL not a standardized part of the #webPlatform.
If #Google actually wanted to advance the #openWeb they'd standardize #googleMaps, but I'm certain they don't want to give up that #monopoly.
@hrefna I think #FEP's on #Codeberg could get us most of the way there.
In addition I also just posted to #SocialHub an idea to fork the abandoned #ActivityPub and #ActivityStreams #W3C repo's from Github for the time being, and maintain them as vNext drafts in the codeberg #fediverse organization account.
https://codeberg.org/fediverse
Ton of issues/PR's are unaddressed, currently.
I strongly support the idea of using schema.org and #JSON-LD as #metadata for #PID described in the article. But I would prefer the #DID standard of the the #W3C than sitemap.org. Why collecting #PID with metadata from multiple sources and not creating a decentralised database with #PID ?
via @ZBW_MediaTalk
I hope to unlock the "weirdest bug found" achievement
I just raised as an issue against the @w3c website beta:
"keyboard+click combo in Firefox to "open in a new tab" links from "cards" opens the link both in origin AND new tabs"
This blog post is 8 years old today.
I wrote about my first impressions 6 or 8 weeks on the job as #w3c head of communications.
I truly miss the bliss I felt when I suddenly acquired a sharper understanding of everything, a clearer and keener sense of things.
I suppose it has become a part of me, of my cognitive tools and just the sensation of the new ability wore off.
My new job: first impressions
https://koalie.blog/2015/03/15/my-new-job-first-impressions/
@pietercolpaert awesome! Did you think of wrapping the protocol bit into a #W3C submission (happy to discuss this together, we're #W3C member and would support it!!!)? I think it would be wotthwhile to argue for standardising just that part... the plethora of siloed doodlish-tools is really becomming a pain!
Although I have always been aware of #Accessibility, it was always something that I forgot about, or actually forgot to care about.
But through #Mastodon, and how active people here with accessibility, and actually interacting with people with disabilities, I have now only realized the importance of it and how we have restricted people from using internet services, especially #socialmedia.
Can't believe #frameworks and #opensource projects aren't focusing on it more. Even with all of the #standards and #tools that the #W3C has created!
#ActivityPub was a proposal and recommendation. First of its kind by the #W3C.
As with any protocols and any software you develop. Planning, design, and thinking only gets you that far. Problems and weaknesses only arise in implementation. We see it in #blockchain every day. Cool and brilliant ideas, but once we start building, we see the downfals.
Started a discussion on the Social Web Community Interest Group of the #W3C -- the home of the #ActivityPub standards -- whether anybody sees the need to reconcile the standards with actual practice in the 5 years since they were published. Historically, this group has been quite dysfunctional from what I could tell... Wondering whether I just painted a giant target on my back.
https://activitypub.rocks/
I am curious how the next generation of specifications will turn out when one applies to their writing the same method of feeding chatGPT pages of Hacker News comments in order to get a sense of existing feedback!
That’s what @ourmaninjapan did before diving right into his own review of the beta version of the #w3c website 😁👌👍🏆
Le #W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) lance une version bêta publique de son site Web.
https://beta.w3.org/
La refonte est actuellement en version bêta mais ouverte pour un aperçu public et des commentaires, avec une date de lancement en février 2023.
It has good backing and research behind it. If I remember correctly #W3C is also behind it.
@anubis2814 @fla Yes, I remember the fraught history of the #W3C #social WG ... but! That was then. And now it is now. We learned since about what is and isn't practical in implementations and interop. There is market-dominant implementation with #mastodon that is not exactly "standard". Some of the people have moved on. And we have far more users that could care less about the details, it just needs to work. I think it's time to revisit.
I've done a coding example for a talk before and it's A LOT OF WORK. Currently don't have the capacity to do it and was wondering if you know examples I could use for deconstructing and showcasing?
I really like this one from the #w3c, but I think it might be too sophisticated already. I will also have people in my workshop that will have no understanding of #html and #css at all, so I want to keep it as simple as possible. https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/menubar/examples/menubar-navigation/
Or should I put in the work and do it myself?
#Design #Development #Previews
W3C Beta Website · The World Wide Web Consortium is modernizing its website https://ilo.im/11dhve
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#WebDesign #DesignSystem #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Website #W3C
Proud to see the @w3c beta website launch today with the new design by my team at Studio 24. It's really nice to see all the hard work from W3C and us come together. Take a look at https://beta.w3.org/ or read our blog post at https://www.studio24.net/blog/w3c-beta-site-launch/ #W3C #web #WebDesign
TADA!
W3C launches beta of its new website
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/02/w3c-launches-beta-of-its-new-website/
@breitensteinart @atomicpoet @fediversenews #mozilla is one of the good ones. They, similar to the #w3c support internet projects even when non-profit. They believe in the greater good.
In many ways, the years between 2013 and 2018 were the worst of the #openWeb, with the reduction in browser engine variety (Presto, Trident, even EdgeHTML were all discarded in that timespan), #Firefox giving up on legacy extensions and web feeds, and the #W3C #EME betrayal.
Can we make the years between 2023 and 2028 those of its revival? With the #Fediverse taking shape, a return to prominence of the #indieWeb, and the birth of new protocols like #Gemini, the times seem ripe.
You know what makes this whole thing even more horrifying? That all major browser vendors _and_ the #W3C have actually worked their assess off to provide something like what I'm talking about for open protocols and standard image formats —but they've done it in submission to the power wielded by the mafia-like content distribution oligopoly, on an extremely controversial “standard” (read about the #EFF opinion in their resignation letter <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership>)
Nothing prepared me for the elderly woman (75yo) who wrote to #w3c to complain about having to remove ugly porno pop ups all the time while watching episodes of an American musical drama TV show.
How was *your* day?
Created a new test-repo branch for testing #CSS var(). CSS var() is still a W3C candidate recommendation, almost a standard, but not yet. (Pardon the test page, it was rushed.)
https://github.com/techmagus/test-repo/tree/var-test
#webdevelopment #webdev #Mozilla #Firefox #Microsoft #Edge #Naver #Whale #Chromium #W3C
Les louloutes, on tente de mettre en place les #notifications push sur le site en s'appuyant sur le standard #W3C.
Ça permettra à tout le monde de s'abonner à mon contenu sans jamais avoir à communiquer de données à #YouTube, ou #Instagram, par exemple. C'est directement entre votre navigateur et le site et anonymisé ;-)
La doc officielle pour les curieux : https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/
#Privacy #Security #Confidentiality
PS : y'a de la customisation à faire.
If you think #WebXR from #w3c makes sense next to #OpenXR from #KhronosGroup in the context of #XR #AR #VR then
is a must-have bookmark. I find the browser overview alone, which by the way can be maintained via github, worth its weight in gold.
Perhaps someone from the #Pico4-Devs can add the #PicoBrowser Capabilities.
.
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R5|Day:31 #100DaysOfCode #MR #Javascript #HTML #CSS #JS #Web3d #3DWeb #Immersive #IndieGameDev #IndieDev
Safari Web Push Notifications en approche dans Safari.
Dans la mesure où on va reprendre le site web en main dans les prochains mois (nouvelle version etc), ce sera pertinent de jeter un œil à ce standard pour voir comment je peux l'intégrer.
Just spotted the talk I did at Web Summer Camp on our experience working on the W3C redesign is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17JMQfOoFs&list=PLsL1X_98-_XD9RQsdzHFGL1X6NuOthHE5&index=9 @w3c #W3C #OpenWeb #redesign
Für Sie getestet: Protokolle via IRC [sic!] zu schreiben, ist auch beim ca. zwanzigsten Mal immer noch etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig. #w3c
In the context of responding to @helge #FEP proposal I bumped into a paper by Samuel M. Smith about the role of #LinkedData wrt the #W3C #VerifiableCredentials spec and thought about your earlier musings when exploring #ActivityPub and how #JSONSchema might have been used.
Sam's TL;DR is:
> The VC standard appears to be an adoption vector for Linked Data, not the other way around.
Might find it an interesting read:
https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepapers/VC_Enhancement_Strategy.md
And he claims the same applies to W3C #DID.
The European Digital Identity (#EUDI) Wallet Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) v1.0 has been released.
⟨ " The purpose of the document is to provide a set of the specifications needed to develop an interoperable European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet Solution based on common standards and practices. " ⟩
#DigitalIdentity #ISO #mDL #W3C #VerifiableCredentials #DecentralizedIdentity #DigitalWallet #eIDAS #EBSI
To understand how the ARF fits within the broader digital identity ecosystem in the European Union read >>
Chrome-first web development must end.
Intriguing that this was announced around the same time Berjon was writing about reforming W3C governance...
"The World Wide Web Consortium is set to pursue 501(c)(3) non-profit status. The launch as a new legal entity in January 2023 preserves the core mission of the Consortium to shepherd the web by developing open standards with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community."
"The [W3C's] membership-based governance model that prevails today (and its accountability shortcomings) actively prevents other sources of financing. Why help fund an organisation that looks like it will serve its members first and Big Tech first amongst those? No matter how much the individual representatives of those companies might sincerely seek to be independent from their employers, if that independence is not guaranteed by the process... it’s a pinky promise."
#RobinBerjon, 2022
"I remember a time... when the W3C was indeed a member organisation — but you can’t work for the Web if you don’t work with the Web. Over the years, the W3C community layered fix atop fix to progressively address the vexations and limitations of being a member organisation. Three decades in, the W3C looks a lot more like a public interest organisation financed by a generous group of donors who call themselves 'members'."
#RobinBerjon, 2022
Real Time Communications #Devroom Talk:
#W3C RTC Working Group Update by Romain Vailleux
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/w3c_update/
Start at 13:10. Building: K, Location: K.3.401
#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards
Das W3C wird gemeinnützig
Das World Wide Web Consortium hat seine Umwandlung in eine gemeinnützige Non-Profit-Organisation abgeschlossen.
I really like the stories our friends at #MIT wrote about #W3C today 💚
> After 28 years of being hosted collectively at MIT and three other international host organizations, the crusaders for web standards have become their own entity.
> Around the time of W3C's inception, the buzz around the "internet," "browsers," and the "web" was so loud it was nearly deafening.
> Berners-Lee’s "greatest act of all" is something he "didn't do:" require fees for patents.
I really like the stories our friends at #MIT wrote about #W3C today 💚
> After 28 years of being hosted collectively at MIT and three other international host organizations, the crusaders for web standards have become their own entity.
> Around the time of W3C's inception, the buzz around the "internet," "browsers," and the "web" was so loud it was nearly deafening.
> Berners-Lee’s "greatest act of all" is something he "didn't do:" require fees for patents.
#W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization
#W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization today.
20 Years ago CUAP and CHIPs were published.
https://www.w3.org/TR/cuap/
https://www.w3.org/TR/chips/
#w3c #useragent #http
There's an interesting (pesky) bug in #chromium based browsers, whereby stylesheet files that do not have a .css extension... are not displayed.
And guess what? it affects a number of pages on the #w3c website (e.g., the homepage)
*sigh*
Our systems team is working on a fix. I wonder if other sites are similarly affected.
#milestone #MyLife #work #w3c #anniversary
Today 24 years ago was my first day at @w3c. I was in my 24th year. It was in its 5th.
Later this year I'll have spent more time there than anyplace else combined.
I'm taking a moment to be grateful for all that I've learned along the way, the friends I made, and the opportunity to be a part of making the #web a better place.
#milestone #MyLife #work #w3c #anniversary
Today 24 years ago was my first day at @w3c. I was in my 24th year. It was in its 5th.
Later this year I'll have spent more time there than anyplace else combined.
I'm taking a moment to be grateful for all that I've learned along the way, the friends I made, and the opportunity to be a part of making the #web a better place.
The current #W3C #SocialCG mailing list has been reactivated and the CG has an informal liaison to SocialHub where a huge archive of past dev discussions can be found.
#SocialHub is also where #FEP's are discussed, #Fediverse Enhancement Proposals. And this process has become active recently. See https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep and https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks
For language changes inside a paragraph, MDN suggests we can use the `i` element:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/i>
That's what I thought was one of the new use cases for `i`.
A @w3c page about “Declaring language in HTML” (so @webi18n ?) says we should use a `span`, `div` or `bdi`:
<https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations.en#usingspan>
So no `i` after all?
Doesn't the video start off on the wrong foot by saying "Mastodon is a Technology" when anyone with a browser can quickly find Mastodon gGmbH?
It goes on to explain, showing the common #fediverse logo-diagram and then explains #ActivityPub, while calling it Mastodon. I confess I stopped watching at that point.
"Mastodon" is not "like email", it is like Hotmail, or Outlook, or Gmail, a wrapper app for the #W3C #ActivityPub standard protocol, and ActivityPub IS very much like email 😏
@notabene Hoo wow !! 😲
Et un peu plus de détail ici : https://www.w3.org/2022/06/pressrelease-w3c-le.html.en
The World Wide Web Consortium (#w3c) is now a real legal entity. https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/01/2023-a-new-era-for-w3c/
Scribing #W3C meetings is a bit of a sprint. 😅
We are just *one* publication away from the nice round total number of 10,700 specifications published by #W3C since we launched the Consortium in October 1994 \o/
Since then we've published 460 web standards.
(Note: one single standards amounts to several publications because of the various stages the work reaches as it progresses.)