The Web Payments Working Group meet in Lyon, France as part of W3C’s big annual meeting, TPAC 2018. This is my summary of the meeting; the agenda, 22 October minutes, and 23 October minutes are also available. Closer to Advancing … Continue reading
The Web Payments Working Group next meets face-to-face on 22-23 October in Lyon, as part of W3C’s annual TPAC week. Our agenda includes discussion of: Status of Payment Request API implementations and closing the extra features for version 1 that … Continue reading
Over the past few years the Web Payments Working Group has discussed ways to streamline the Payment Request API user experience when it comes to payment handlers. Two ideas are now available for experimentation in Chrome: Just-in-time registration Skip-the-sheet For … Continue reading
In April the Chairs of the Web Payments Working Group enumerated several priorities for the medium term. In this post I summarize our progress since then. Get Payment Request API to Proposed Recommendation Browser makers continue to implement and deploy … Continue reading
Thirty people participated in the Web Payments Working Group face-to-face meeting last week in Singapore (agenda, 19 April minutes, 20 April minutes). Thanks to co-Chair Adrian Hope-Bailie, Ripple hosted the meeting at a marina on the island of Sentosa. The … Continue reading
For several years, the Web Payments Working Group has discussed a range of ideas for layering security improvements on the user experience of Payment Request API. These have included: Encrypt response data to help reduce PCI DSS assessment burden. Digitally … Continue reading
I’m happy about the progress the Web Payments Working Group made in 2017, including: Payment Request API adoption by all major browsers and in a growing number of SDKs including Shopify, Stripe, and Braintree. A nearly complete test suite for … Continue reading
It’s the people that make TPAC worthwhile. More than 600 from the W3C community attended the annual “week of group meetings” this year: TPAC 2017 in Burlingame, California. With that many people over 5 days, you can pack a lot … Continue reading
W3C’s annual “big meeting” of groups takes place in the Bay Area this year. The Web Payments Working Group agenda is coming into view, and I think of it in four parts: Payment Request API. How is implementation going? As … Continue reading
In early September I learned with excitement that the status of Payment Request API implementation in Webkit went from “Under Consideration” to “In Development.” That means that the API is being implemented in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Webkit, as well … Continue reading