Updated Candidate Recommendation: CSS Counter Styles Level 3
July 27th, 2021
The CSS Working Group invites implementation of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of CSS Counter Styles Level 3. This module introduces the @counter-style rule, which allows authors to define their own custom counter styles for use with CSS list-marker and generated-content counters [CSS-LISTS-3]. It also predefines a set of common counter styles, including the ones…
Last call to apply for the TPAC 2021 Inclusion Fund
July 26th, 2021
To those in the world who are from a group that is under-represented in the web community, who can and want to join us in making Web standards, but would otherwise be unable to without financial help, please apply to become a beneficiary of the TPAC 2021 Inclusion Fund, by August 15. We wish to…
Web Features That May Not Work As You’d Expect
July 23rd, 2021
As the web gets more and more capable, developers are able to make richer online experiences. There are times, however, where some new web capabilities may not work as you would expect in the interest of usability, security, and privacy. I have run into situations like this. Like lazy loading in HTML. It’s easy to…
ECMAScript proposal: JSON modules
July 21st, 2021
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer looks at JSON modules, which is already live in Chrome 91 (but nothing else). It looks just like an ES Modules-style import, only you asset the type at the end. import configData from ‘./config-data.json’ assert {type: ‘json’}; How nice is that? Once this makes its way across browsers, we’ve gone on a…
:focus-visible in WebKit
July 9th, 2021
This is a nice update from Manuel Rego Casasnovas. Igalia has this idea to sort of crowd-source important web platform features that need to get worked on (that’s the sort of work they do). They call it Open Prioritization. The “winner” of that (the one with the most-pledged dollars) is what they’ll do. That turned…
Beginner JavaScript Notes
July 8th, 2021
Wes has a heck of a set of “notes” for learning JavaScript. It’s organized like a curriculum, meaning if you teach JavaScript, you could do a lot worse. It’s actually more like 85 really fleshed-out blog posts organized into sections and easily navigable. If you want to be walked through it via video, then buy…
New video introduces TPAC — our annual conference
July 8th, 2021
W3C released today a short video introducing our annual conference. TPAC is the acclaimed event where web standards are developed for the benefit of humanity. Watch the video to learn how the Web community engages at this important rendez-vous, how together we create momentum, brainstorm and coordinate work, how together the Web Consortium makes the…
W3C Invites Implementations of ARIA in HTML
July 5th, 2021
The Web Applications Working Group has published the ARIA in HTML as a W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 attributes on [HTML] elements. This specification’s primary objective is to define requirements for…
Accessibility accommodations now part of all W3C workshops
July 5th, 2021
W3C announced today that as part of our growing concern for inclusion, all W3C workshops will now include the following standard accessibility accommodations: English captions available on all pre-recorded presentations, before the live sessions Real-time English captions available during the live sessions American Sign language and other services will depend on participant requests W3C organizes…
Zero-Width Space
July 2nd, 2021
The name zero-width space is antithetical, but it’s not without uses. In text, maybe you’d use it around slashes because you want to be sure the words are treated individually but not have any physical space around the slash: That’s an image. WordPress was being weird about it and not escaping it even when in…