14 January 2020 The  Web Real-Time Communications Working Group  invites implementation of its updated Candidate Recommendation of  Identifiers for WebRTC’s Statistics API . This document defines a set of WebIDL objects that allow access to the statistical information about a RTCPeerConnection. These objects are returned from the getStats API that is specified in [ WEBRTC ].

14 January 2020 W3C announced today a  Workshop on Web & Machine Learning , 24-25 March 2020, in Berlin, Germany. The event is hosted by Microsoft. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together providers of Machine Learning tools and frameworks with Web platform practitioners to enrich the Open Web Platform with better foundations for machine learning. The secondary goals of the workshop are as follows: Understand how machine learning fits into the Web technology stack, Understand how browser-based machine learning fits into the machine learning ecosystem, Explore the impact of machine learning technologies on Web browsers and Web applications, Evaluate the opportunities for standardization around machine learning APIs and formats. Expected topics of discussion include: Dedicated machine learning APIs for browsers as explored by the  Machine Learning for the Web Community Group Integration of browser-provided data sources in machine learning w...

13 January 2020 The W3C Advisory Committee has  elected  the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): Rossen Atanassov (Microsoft Corporation), David Baron (Mozilla Foundation) and Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (Intel Corporation). They join co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee and continuing participants, Daniel Appelquist (Samsung Electronics; co-Chair), Hadley Beeman (W3C Invited Expert), Alice Boxhall (Google), Peter Linss (W3C Invited Expert; co-Chair), Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts), and Theresa O’Connor (Apple, Inc.). Yves Lafon continues as staff contact. Many thanks to Lukasz Olejnik (W3C Invited Expert) whose term ends at the end of this month. The TAG is a special group within the W3C, chartered under the  W3C Process Document , with stewardship of the Web architecture. The mission of the TAG is to build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary, to resolve issues involving genera...

17 December 2019 The  Web Applications Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  Web Share API . This specification defines an API for sharing text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the user’s choice. The available share targets are not specified here; they are provided by the user agent. They could, for example, be apps, websites or contacts.