24 April 2019 W3C has published a new version of its  Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context. The April 2019 snapshot introduces a few additional technologies under incubation in the Web Platform Incubator Community Group and refreshes the status of other specifications. See the  Change history  for details. New exploratory work since the December 2018 snapshot: Cookie Store API, described in  Data Storage KV Storage, described in  Data Storage JS Self-Profiling API, described in  Performance and Tuning Trusted Types, described in  Security and Privacy A few specifications have also progressed along the standardization track, starting with Web Authentication published as a W3C Recommendation (see  Security and Privacy ), including Resize Observer (see  Device ...

23 April 2019 W3C released today its  W3C Strategic Highlights – Spring 2019 , a comprehensive survey of the essential work W3C conducts to achieve a Web for All, and select recent work in many areas where the Web can solve arising problems for real people. To the pipeline of innovations to enable the Web to scale to meet the new challenges and opportunities, we are making recent additions: W3C  chartered a Web Payment Security Interest Group  to foster greater coordination and ultimately enhance the security and interoperability of Web payments. Web & Networks: what is needed for the Web to take advantage of 5G, QUIC, and Edge Computing changing the topology of network-based services? We have started to flesh out a group charter in the wake of the W3C Web5G workshop in May 2018. As the Web evolves continuously, some groups are looking for ways for specifications to do so as well. So-called “evergreen recommendations” or “living standards” aim to track c...

8 April 2019 Last night in Las Vegas, as the NAB Show was kicked off by the 70th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards ceremony, W3C representatives accepted our second Emmy® Award. The prestigious industry award recognizes our work to standardize a Full TV Experience on the Web . Among the myriad web technologies that the Web Consortium develops, HTML5 has brought videos to the Web, ending the era of plug-ins for media playback. The standards at the core of all web media applications today have turned the Web into an unprecedented media platform, which mixes professional and user-generated content, available anywhere, anytime, on any device, and to anyone. This marks the second Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award that W3C has received. In 2016 W3C was awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for its work on the Timed Text Mark-up Language standard. W3C is grateful for our community and all those who work to build standards and technol...

4 April 2019 The  Pointer Events Working Group  has published  Pointer Events Level 2  as a W3C Recommendation. The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, touchscreen, etc. For compatibility with existing mouse based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for other pointer device types. This new W3C Recommendation supersedes  Pointer Events Level 1 .

4 April 2019 The  Timed Text Working Group  has published an updated Candidate Recommendation of  WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format . This specification defines WebVTT, the Web Video Text Tracks format. Its main use is for marking up external text track resources in connection with the HTML <track> element. WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content, and also text video descriptions  [MAUR] , chapters for content navigation, and more generally any form of metadata that is time-aligned with audio or video content. This specification is based on the  Draft Community Group Report  of the  Web Media Text Tracks Community Group .