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W3C CEO letter for Web 33rd anniversary

28 March 2022 | Archive

Quote from Tim Berners-Lee: the Web is humanity connected by technology The web turned 33 last week. In March 1989, while at CERN, our Director Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote “Information Management: A Proposal”. Tim’s memo, which outlined the World Wide Web, was about to revolutionize communication around the globe for generations and decades to come.

W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe reflected last week on how the web became the ultimate tool of resilience for the world, as was made clear by two years of pandemic, and the critical role that W3C plays in making that happen.

First Public Working Draft: Autoplay Policy Detection

15 March 2022 | Archive

The Media Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Autoplay Policy Detection. This specification provides web developers the ability to detect if automatically starting the playback of a media file is allowed in different situations.

The Working Group welcomes comments via the GitHub repository issues.

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