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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) makes the Web work, for everyone. We develop interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, tools). @w3c@w3c.social
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Did you know? # of Web Servers 1991: 1 1992: 10 1993: 50 1994: 623 1995: 10,022 1996: 100,000 1997: 603,367 1998: ~1.6 million 1999: ~3.7 million 2000: ~9.5 million 2001: ~26 million 2002: ~36 million 2003: ~35 million 2004: more than ~46 million 2019: more than 1,717,077,725
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W3C press release: "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation" "This new type of verifiable identifier... will enable both individuals and organizations to take greater control of their online information and relationships"
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<link rel=stylesheet> was completely obvious at the time, with <link> for external resources that apply to the whole document (copyright, parent document, alternative formats, translations, style sheets); <style src="…"> was never discussed. (1/2)
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26 years ago on 1 October 1994, W3C was founded by to lead the Web to its full potential. Thank you to Tim, our Members (some of whom have been with us from the beginning), and all in our community for creating a Web that works, for everyone. Happy birthday W3C!
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"A Well-Known URL for Changing Passwords" This spec defines a well-known URL that sites can use to make their change password forms discoverable by tools. This provides a way for software to help the user find the way to change their password.
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The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Anchor Positioning. This allows a positioned element (such as a tooltip or pop-up footnote) to size and position itself relative to one or more "anchor elements" elsewhere on the page
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📢 Attention fellow web designers! We are going to embark on an incremental redesign of our website and will be accepting proposals. Watch out for our upcoming RFP.
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The Accessibility Guidelines WG (AG WG) has published a First Public Working Draft of W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 which explain how to make web content, apps, and tools more accessible to people with disabilities.
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W3C has elected its First Board of Directors. Congratulations to our initial Board: , Koichi Moriyama, , David Singer, Eric Siow, and Hongru (Judy) Zhu. Many thanks to all the candidates and to the AC reps who voted for them
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(2/2) and the original <script> element in HTML 3.2 didn't have a src attribute. the REC for HTML 3.2 mentions <link> as a way to link to scripts, but it doesn't define any keywords for rel=.
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We are hiring! We are looking for a new full-time Web Developer to develop and maintain Web applications (front-end development for w3.org, server side web development, usability design and testing) at Beihang University in Beijing w3.org/Consortium/Rec
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It's our birthday! "The World Wide Web Consortium at 27: a guiding star for the future of the web" As we celebrate our anniversary, we are grateful for the incredible energy and good will that the web sparks off!
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We’re sorry if at times you can’t get to the W3C Validator, so we wanted to offer some personal validator messages for our community: Your web pages look really nice!
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