The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working with leading international executive search firm   Perrett Laver   to find qualified candidates from around the world to be our CEO. W3C began 2023 by forming a new public-interest incorporated not-for-profit organization. We are now seeking our next leader at this exciting time in our evolution. The new organization preserves the core process and mission of the Web Consortium to shepherd the Web, by developing open web standards as a single global organization with contributions from W3C Members, staff, and the international community. The new W3C entity preserves our member-driven approach and existing worldwide outreach and cooperation. W3C is a unique organization at a crucial transition point in its existence. Reporting to the newly formed Board of Directors, the CEO will be responsible for the success of W3C in line with our mission. The CEO must be an experienced and collaborative leader who appreciates the strong as...

  The   Distributed Tracing Working Group   invites implementations of the   Trace Context Level 2   Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. This specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format to propagate context information that enables distributed tracing scenarios. The specification standardizes how context information is sent and modified between services. Context information uniquely identifies individual requests in a distributed system and also defines a means to add and propagate provider-specific context information.

  The   Verifiable Credentials Working Group   has published the following two First Public Working Drafts: EdDSA Cryptosuite v2022 : This specification describes a Data Integrity cryptographic suite for use when creating or verifying a digital signature using the twisted Edwards Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) and Curve25519 (ed25519). ECDSA Cryptosuite v2019 : This specification describes a Data Integrity Cryptosuite for use when generating a digital signature using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) based on the Standards for Efficient Cryptography over prime fields using a verifiably random Elliptic Curve (secpr1).

  The   Web Machine Learning Working Group   invites implementations of the   Web Neural Network API   Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. The Web Neural Network API is a low-level browser API that enables hardware acceleration of machine learning models, opening the way to high-performance privacy-preserving usage of computer vision, natural language processing and generation or speech processing improvements emerging from the recent advances in the field. Comments are welcome via the  GitHub issues  by  1 October 2023 .

  The   CSS Working Group   invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of   CSS Display Module Level 3 . This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and defines the   display   property that controls it. Comments are welcome via the  GitHub issues  by  30 May 2023 .

  The  CSS Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  CSS Animations Level 2 . This CSS module describes a way for authors to animate the values of CSS properties over time, using keyframes. The behavior of these keyframe animations can be controlled by specifying their duration, number of repeats, and repeating behavior.

  W3C invites public  feedback  on a  beta release  of the W3C website  redesign . The new site features a cleaner and more modern look, a simplified information architecture, improved accessibility, and more integration throughout the site. Once the beta of the English site has concluded, we will offer sites in Japanese and Chinese. The scope of the redesign is limited to most of our public pages, but we will gradually work to include the rest of the site. You can read a bit more on the beta and its context in the  W3C blog post , and about the redesign work and process in  Studio 24’s blog post . We look forward to your feedback. 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 embrac...