w3cdevs Twitter archive for March 2021

1-5 Mar.: the @wot groups organize a virtual #plugfest where will be experimented new features of the "Thing Description", and more. See agenda: https://github.com/w3c/wot-testing/blob/main/events/2021.03.Online/README.md #WoT #IoT

🗓️ March@VirtualW3C: #WoT group meetings and plugfest, #a11y workshop, etc. More at https://www.w3.org/participate/eventscal.html

11 Mar.: @dontcallmeDOM speaks about the role of #w3c #standardization and #OpenSource: https://openforumeurope.org/event/ofe-lounge-series-standardisation-and-open-source/ @OpenForumEurope

11 Mar.: @sabouzah presents at an #accessibility workshop @aaltouniversity: "Emerging Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges for People with Disabilities on the Web" https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/opportunities-and-challenges-for-people-with-disabilities-on-the-web #a11y

15-25 Mar.: online @wot meetings - full agenda at: https://www.w3.org/WoT/IG/wiki/F2F_meeting,_March_2021#Agenda

The charter for the Web #MachineLearning Working Group is now officially under review by the @W3C Advisory Committee https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2021Feb/0007.html https://twitter.com/w3cdevs/status/1325817084161429504

If the charter is approved, this new Working Group would focus on standardizing the Web Neural Network (#WebNN) API, a set of low level computing primitives to run #MachineLearning models efficiently in browsers - https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/blob/master/explainer.md

See also @NingxinHu's talk at the workshop last Summer introducing #WebNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vnQYOQSIMq

29 Mar. - 1 April: the #w3c Web #Payments #WorkingGroup holds a series of meetings: https://github.com/w3c/webpayments/wiki/Agenda-FTF2021

24 Mar.: @sabouzah presents global #a11y standards for products and services @ITU's event "Accessible Europe" https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regional-Presence/Europe/Pages/Events/2020/AE21/

Joining the existing packaged #WebIDL extracted from web specs, please meet the just-released packaged definitions of #CSS properties and values https://www.npmjs.com/package/@webref/css https://twitter.com/w3cdevs/status/1359848075444027398

The Web Payment Security Interest Group helps coordinate #payment & #authentication related activities across @w3c @FIDOAlliance & @emvco https://www.w3.org/securepay/charter-202103.html https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1369498759374245892

They developed the white paper on how the various technologies in this space from these 3 organizations relate one with another https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1326529870206296064

Watch @ibjacobs status updates on the W3C #payments work https://youtu.be/G2x12lmZ8aM

And if you'd rather read than watch a video, the full transcript of the presentation with slides is also available https://www.w3.org/2020/Talks/ij_payments_202012/

Recent status update (#December2020!) of #w3c's Web #Payments Activity in this nice 🎬:
https://youtu.be/G2x12lmZ8aM

🆕 A calendaring tool is now available for the #W3Community. As work continues to move online, it is all the more important to help @w3c's international groups work well across #TimeZones:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/03/group-calendaring-service-enters-beta-test https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1371783118009610241

From now on, W3C public groups, chairs and team contacts can easily create, schedule and share their events/meetings via a #calendar tab. This was discussed at last #w3cTPAC: https://youtu.be/LEYQ5UbEQj0

The calendaring #WebApp is expected to evolve with upcoming features listed at https://github.com/w3c/calendar/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Afeature-request

This new service is in #BetaTest for now. Please use it and report feedback and/or issues in the #GitHub repo: https://github.com/w3c/calendar 🙏

The DIDs specifications have reached #CandidateRecommendation #timetoimplement https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1372478182545317888

DIDs are a key part of the self-sovereign identity #SSI vision as we described when the W3C Working Group started https://twitter.com/w3cdevs/status/1061972983831556097

Watch Ivan Herman explain DIDs in a talk he gave in December https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8lMCmjPKq4

There is a wide list of identified topics, and many of them intersect with @w3c's agenda: #accessibility, #privacy, #WebMachineLearning, #i18n, #OpenData, etc. Read more: https://www.standict.eu/standicteu-2023-3rd-open-call#

Are you based in #Europe and actively involved in @w3c #WebStandards development? Do apply for funding this work before #18May2021! @DigitalEU #standardization https://twitter.com/Stand_ICT/status/1372503982736875523

Great news! 🙏👏
#webdevs, if you haven't done so, check what pain points and possible solutions were identified in the 2020 MDN browser compatibility report: https://mdn-web-dna.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/MDN-Browser-Compatibility-Report-2020.pdf https://twitter.com/robertnyman/status/1374030991996682240

See also how this fits in the general picture of #WebPayments work in W3C https://twitter.com/w3cdevs/status/1370024334245294093

Secure Payment Confirmation is a proposal to prevent fraud in on-line payments while keeping as smooth a user experience as possible using authenticators (e.g. on-device fingerprint confirmation) via #WebAuthN - and the experiment run by @stripe is showing impressive results! https://twitter.com/w3c/status/1375452083307024387