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Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions Published as a Discontinued Draft

  The   Web Real-Time Communications Working Group   published today   Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions   as a   Discontinued Draft , due to lack of implementation momentum. The specification expected to extend the   Media Capture and Streams specification   to allow a depth stream to be requested from the web platform using APIs familiar to web authors. Publication as a Discontinued Draft implies that this document is no longer intended to advance or to be maintained. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than abandoned work. Introduction: Mastering Digital Growth in 2025—From SEO to Social Media and AI In 2025, digital success isn’t just about having an online presence—it’s about strategically connecting the dots between SEO, web design, content creation, and social media. For small businesses and marketers alike, staying ahead means embracing the latest tools and trends that shape how we rank, engage, and grow online. Whether ...

W3C Web Fonts Working Group honored in 2021 Emmy® Awards

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  The National Academy of Arts and Sciences has released its  2021 list of Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards  today and we were delighted to discover that the  Web Fonts Working Group , along with MPEG, will be honored for standardizing font technology for custom downloadable fonts and typography for web and TV devices. This award represents the culmination of a quarter-century of work at W3C. Web Fonts enable people to use fonts on demand over the web without requiring installation in the operating system. W3C has experience in downloadable fonts through HTML, CSS2, and SVG. Downloadable fonts were not common on the web due to the lack of an interoperable font format. The Web Fonts effort addresses that through the creation of an industry-supported, open font format for the web called “WOFF” (Web Open Font Format) whose version 2, which became a  standard in 2018 , is deployed in all major web browsers and powers a vast majority of sites. This is the...

CSS Snapshot 2021 Note Published

  The   CSS Working Group   has published a Group Note of   CSS Snapshot 2021 . This document collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as of 2021. The primary audience is CSS implementers, not CSS authors, as this definition includes modules by specification stability, not Web browser adoption rate. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc

Three First Public Working Drafts published by the CSS Working Group

  The   CSS Working Group   has published the following three First Public Working Drafts: CSS Containment Module Level 3 : This CSS module describes the  ‘contain’  property, which indicates that the element’s subtree is independent of the rest of the page. This enables heavy optimizations by user agents when used well. CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 5 : This module contains the features of CSS for conditional processing of parts of style sheets, based on capabilities of the processor or the environment the style sheet is being applied in. It includes and extends the functionality of CSS Conditional 4 [ css-conditional-4 ], adding the generalized conditional rule  ‘@when’  and the chained conditional rule  ‘@else’ , as well as introducing font processing queries to the  supports query  syntax used in  ‘@supports’  rules. CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 6 : This CSS module describes how to collate style rules and assign...

W3C Invites Implementations of User Timing and Performance Timeline

  The   Web Performance Working Group   invites implementations of two Candidate Recommendation Snapshots: User Timing  defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps. Performance Timeline  extends the High Resolution Time specification [ HR-TIME-3 ] by providing methods to store and retrieve high resolution performance metric data. Introduction: Mastering Digital Growth in 2025—From SEO to Social Media and AI In 2025, digital success isn’t just about having an online presence—it’s about strategically connecting the dots between SEO, web design, content creation, and social media. For small businesses and marketers alike, staying ahead means embracing the latest tools and trends that shape how we rank, engage, and grow online. Whether you're aiming to  win local search  with cutting-edge  SEO for Small Business in 2025: How to Win Local Search and Drive G...

First Public Working Draft: MiniApp Packaging

  The  MiniApps Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  MiniApp Packaging . This specification defines semantics and conformance requirements for a  MiniApp package , and the structure of the single file container that holds the resources of a MiniApp, including a manifest file, static page templates, stylesheets, JavaScript documents, media files and other resources. Instances of the  MiniApp package  are used for MiniApp distribution and execution on runtime environments ( MiniApp user agent ).

First Public Working Draft: Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1

  he   Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group   has published a First Public Working Draft of   Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 . The Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings (DPub-AAM) defines how   user agents   map the Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module [ dpub-aria-1.1 ] markup to platform   accessibility  APIs . It is intended for user agent developers responsible for accessibility in their user agent so that they can support the accessibility content produced for digital publishing. The implementation of this specification in user agents enables authors to produce more accessible e-books, by conveying structural book constructs used by the digital publishing industry to assistive technologies. It does this by extending the  Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1  and the  Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1  specifications for user agents. It provides Accessibi...