The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced the results of its 2025 election for the W3C Advisory Board (AB) — a key body shaping the strategic and procedural direction of the web's most foundational standards. Starting 1 July 2025 , the following individuals will begin their tenure as newly elected AB members: Daniel Appelquist Theresa O'Connor Hiroshi Ota Avneesh Singh Hidde de Vries Song Xu Brent Zundel These new members join continuing AB participants: Wei Ding Max Gendler Tatsuya Igarashi Elena Lape The election follows the conclusion of terms for Tantek Çelik , Elika J Etemad , Wendy Reid , and Chris Wilson , who will officially step down at the end of June 2025. In addition, Florian Rivoal had stepped down earlier in January 2025. The W3C community extends its gratitude to all departing members for their invaluable service and contributions. What Is the W3C Advisory Board? Established in March 1998 , the W3C Advisory Boa...

4 February 2019 The  Internationalization Working Group  has published a new Working Group Note:  Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching  which provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby increase interoperability. String identity matching is the process by which a specification or implementation defines whether two string values are the same or different from one another. It describes the ways in which texts that are semantically equivalent can be encoded differently and the impact this has on matching operations important to formal languages. Topics include normalization and case folding.

8 August 2017  |  Archive The  Web Platform Working Group  invites implementations of  HTML 5.2  Candidate Recommendation. This specification defines the 5th major version, second minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention continues to be given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.