In "Web Security: shaping the secure Web" W3C CEO @npub1m662...w4ec explains why and how Web Security as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C’s mission, mentions digital identities and credentials as a high-stake current focus, and invites all to participate. #WebSecurity
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Michael Sperberg-McQueen. Michael, a pioneer in Extensible Markup Language (XML), was part of the W3C Team for a time. He was intellectually generous, personally kind and generally wonderful. Remembrances of him are being gathered at:
W3C Invites Implementations of Payment Request API. The Web Payments Working Group has republished Payment Request API as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user. Comments are welcome via GitHub by 1 October 2024.