Last week we released our 2025 report on gender and geographic diversity at W3C prepared by Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Communications. Her report focuses on gender and geography for several W3C governance bodies: Advisory Board (AB); Technical Architecture Group (TAG); Board of Directors (BoD) and W3C Management (W3M). See more at:

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Diversity report - 2025

As part of our commitment and continued focus on diversity and inclusion, since 2018 we annually report on gender and geographic diversity at W3C.

The Federated Identity Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Digital Credentials. This API enables websites to request credentials, and for users to consent to return credentials that they carry around in digital wallets. Early implementations of the Digital Credentials API are now available from Google and Apple. People can view demos and conduct experiments, and the experimentation will inform the evolution of this specification. Read more at:

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First Public Working Draft: Digital Credentials

This API enables websites to request credentials, and for users to consent to return credentials that they carry around in digital wallets.

W3C tech: "PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation" "According to ProgramMax, the U.S. Library of Congress, Library and Archives Canada, and the National Archives of Australia recommend PNG for archiving digital images, likely because of its lossless compression. With this amount of trust placed on the file format, it must keep up with the times and ensure that it will continue to help preserve our visual history."

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PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation

The W3C updated PNG to make it work with HDR content, and it expects to receive a couple more updates in the near future.

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) is now a W3C Recommendation This document describes PNG, an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of static and animated raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can also replace many common uses of TIFF. The Third Edition adds Animated PNG and High Dynamic Range (HDR) PNG.

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Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition) is now a W3C Recommendation

The Third Edition adds Animated PNG and High Dynamic Range (HDR) PNG.

The Math Working Group has published MathML Core as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This spec defines a core subset of MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation. MathML is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.

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W3C invites implementations of MathML Core

This specification defines a core subset of Mathematical Markup Language, or MathML, that is suitable for browser implementation.

"Privacy on the web: creating a more trustworthy web" by W3C CEO @npub1m662...w4ec "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."

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Privacy on the web: creating a more trustworthy web

In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs explains why and how privacy on the web as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C’s mission, mentions...

The W3C @npub1zekl...2tug 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

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Privacy Principles is a W3C Statement

This document provides definitions for privacy and related concepts that are applicable worldwide as well as a set of privacy principles that shoul...

"Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed" has been published as a W3C Draft finding by @npub1zekl...2tug "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."

Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed

On 30 April 1993, CERN's Directors declared that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) that Tim Berners-Lee @npub1rknc...cdxd had first proposed in 1989, were to be put in the Public Domain. We are grateful to CERN and to Tim for this world changing decision which has enabled the W3C community to create open, accessible, international web standards which make the web work, for everyone.

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Licensing the Web

The RDF-star Working Group has published a first Draft Note of RDF 1.2 Primer. This primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF. It introduces the basic concepts of RDF and shows concrete examples of the use of RDF. Learn more at:

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Draft Note: RDF 1.2 Primer

This primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge required to effectively use RDF.