28 March 2019 The Verifiable Claims Working Group invites implementations of Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0 Candidate Recommendation. Credentials are a part of our daily lives; driver’s licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, and government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries. This specification provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

18 March 2019 W3C announced today a Workshop on Web Games , 27-28 June 2019, in Redmond, WA, USA. The event is hosted by Microsoft. This workshop aims to bring together browser vendors, game engines developers, games developers, game distributors, and device manufacturers to enrich the Open Web Platform with additional technologies for games, including action, casual, first-person shooter (FPS), multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG), sports, and Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality (VR/AR) games. Attendance is free for all invited participants and is open to the public, whether or not W3C members. Expected topics of discussion include: 3D graphics rendering: high-priority features for AAA games, specifications, timeline Multithreading operations: background rendering ( OffscreenCanvas ), status of SharedArrayBuffer WebAssembly: additional features to make the Web a better build target for game engines, debu...

12 March 2019 Today we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Web and in a few months, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the W3C developing open standards and guidelines that foster innovative applications, profitable commerce, and the free flow of information and ideas. In March 1989, while at CERN, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote “ Information Management: A Proposal ” outlining the World Wide Web. 30 years ago today, Tim’s memo was about to revolutionize communication around the globe. Committed to core values of an open Web that promotes innovation, neutrality, and interoperability, W3C and its community are setting the vision and standards for the Web, ensuring the building blocks of the web are open, accessible, secure, international and have been developed via the collaboration of global technical experts. Today we celebrate a Web that is: Universal, International and truly “World Wide”. Available on any device, for any type of information, in a...