The   Media Working Group   has published a First Public Working Draft of   Autoplay Policy Detection . This specification provides web developers the ability to detect if automatically starting the playback of a media file is allowed in different situations. The Working Group welcomes comments via the  GitHub repository issues .

  W3C is pleased to announce a  report  from the  W3C/SMPTE Workshop on Professional Media Production on the Web , held online in October/November 2021. This report contains a brief summary, collects highlights from the live sessions, links to the presentation videos, and details next steps. The workshop connected the web platform and the professional media production communities and explored evolutions of the web platform to address professional media production requirements.  24 workshop talks  were published in October 2021,  about 40 issues  were discussed online, and  3 live sessions  were held mid-November 2021 that convened more than 75 experts to exchange on specific media production needs for the web platform. The main outcomes are that: The web platform  already provides  building blocks to enable core media production scenarios. These building blocks are not powerful enough to create full-fledged experiences on clien...

  The  Web Fonts Working Group  has proposed corrections to the W3C Recommendation of  WOFF File Format 2.0 . Based on experience with WOFF 1.0, which is widely deployed, this specification was developed to provide improved compression and thus lower use of network bandwidth, while still allowing fast decompression even on mobile devices. This is achieved by combining a content-aware preprocessing step and improved entropy coding, compared to the Flate compression used in WOFF 1.0.

  The   MiniApps Working Group   has just published a Draft Note of   MiniApp Addressing . This specification defines how MiniApps are located, which is called MiniApp Addressing, including the specifications for specific MiniApp URI syntax components based on the URI specification, and the process to dereference the MiniApp URI. Implementing this specification enables the user agent to locate the resources of MiniApp. The Working Group is publishing this specification as a Draft Note to encourage early review. Comments are welcome via the  GitHub repository .