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Author(s) and publish date Published: 2 July 2026 The Data Shapes Working Group has published today a First Public Working Draft of SHACL 1.2 Profiling. SHACL, the Shapes Constraint Language, is a language for describing the structure of RDF graphs. SHACL may be used for a variety of purposes such as validating, inferencing, modeling domains, generating ontologies to inform other agents, building user interfaces, generating code, and integrating data.

Tim Berners-Lee Date: December 19, 1996 Status: personal view. Editing status: Italic text is rough. Reques complete edit and possibly massaging, but content is basically there. Words such as "axiom" and "theorem" are used with gay abandon and the reverse of rigour here. This file was split off from Axioms.html on 2001/1/15 as matric URI parsing is not a feature of the web. This is just something which could have been.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 30 June 2026 The Pointer Events Working Group is pleased to publish Pointer Events Level 3 as a W3C Recommendation. The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 30 June 2026 The Security Interest Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled W3C Standards Vulnerability Disclosure & Handling Process and Policy. This document defines how to report suspected security vulnerabilities in W3C standards and specifications (technical reports), so that issues can be triaged, confirmed, and resolved through the appropriate W3C processes.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 30 June 2026 The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft today for the Verifiable Credential Forgery Defense v1.0 specification. This publication is complementary to the publication of quantum-resistant cryptosuites and is motivated by the same threat.

As over 70% of the world is now online, we believe the diversity of the whole world needs to be reflected, as more people continue to access the web for which we develop standards for, here together at the Web Consortium. We would like to be a model of supporting diversity. As an international organization, we can see the immense value we gain from having greater gender diversity, and expertise from across multiple countries and cultures.

Author(s) and publish date By: Coralie Mercier, Director of W3C Marketing & Communications Published: 23 June 2026 23 June is International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) and celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers around the world while also noting that they are still hugely under-represented. As of 2026, it is estimated that 26.7% of the tech workforce globally are women. Last week we released our annual diversity report.

Hey everyone. My name is Patrick, I'm a program manager at Microsoft and I'll be speaking to you today about the EyeDropper API. Sampling colors creative application, is something that's very useful. For example, when you use something like PowerPoint and you want to change the color of the outline of an object, you're able to use an EyeDropper tool to go and grab the color from a different object so that you don't have to remember what color it was, or maybe remember the code by heart.

Skip ⬇ Video By now, you've probably heard of Baseline. There are banners on MDN, on the top of Can I Use pages as well. Web.dev also uses Baseline to blog about new features that are now available across the web platform. One web agency, Clearleft, has also adopted Baseline to redefine its browser support strategy. And finally, RUM Archive has launched a tool that helps you discover the percentage of users that you'd be able to target with each version of Baseline.

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