This is the 19-26 May 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media.
W3C and HTML5 related Twitter trends
[What was tweeted frequently, or caught my attention. Most recent first (popularity is flagged with a figure —number of times the same URIs or tweet was quoted/RTed.)]
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82) Specifiction: Experimenting with new ways of discussing standards with a Discourse instance [initiative of Robin Berjon] - (
66) Spec: Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation - (
616) TechCrunch: AppGyver Launches Composer, A Drag-And-Drop Tool For Building HTML5 Apps - (
20) Glyn Moody: Upcoming Workshop on Web Cryptography Next Steps - (
31) Web Cryptography API: Extractable keys [buzgilla] - (
31) Yale: Creator of the World Wide Web @timberners_lee receives Honorary Doctor of Engineering & Technology. #Yale2014 @w3c
Open Web & net neutrality
- Webby Awards 2014: Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s remarks on the history and the future of the Web, including “Up to us.”, a plea for Net Neutrality (21 May 2014)
W3C in the Press (or blogs)
1 article since the 19-May Digest. You may read all articles in our Press Clippings page.
- NYTimes.com | Bits (21 May), California Urges Websites to Disclose Online Tracking
Internet neutrality remains as importance as ever—maybe the Internet needs some kind of declaration of independance?
In regards to US urging site owners to disclose tracking.. It’s easy enough for website visitors to disable tracking with plugins, most tracking collected is anonymous.