HTML5.1; Web Payments; cleaning up w3.org/Guide; Web Platform WG; TAG in Japan; Tim Berners-Lee, data and Oxford; ePub; WCAG

This is the 24 October - 7 November 2016 edition of the "weekly digest  of news and trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list [1]. 

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/



1) W3C, Web and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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[What was tweeted frequently, caught my attention, etc. -  with most *popular* first]

31 October 2016
@LeonieWatson
#HTML5.1 is an official @W3C Recommendation! https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/REC-html51-20161101/ … Thanks to everyone who made it happen https://github.com/w3c/html/graphs/contributorshttps://twitter.com/LeonieWatson/statuses/793371769264537600
(63 Retweets, 43 Likes)

25 October 2016
@ThePaypers
Implications of @w3c on #ecommerce #payments significant, a reality in 2017? #Money2020 @dgwbirch
https://twitter.com/ThePaypers/statuses/791064233018527748
(10 Retweets, 11 Likes)

26 October 2016
@plhw3org
How to clean-up https://www.w3.org/Guide  and enable the community to put their wisdom in it? If you have ideas, let me know. @w3c
https://twitter.com/plhw3org/statuses/791269584246599680
(10 Retweets, 8 Likes)

31 October 2016
@LeonieWatson
Woohoo! The @W3C Web Platform WG charter has been renewed until March 2018 https://www.w3.org/2016/11/webplatform-charter.htmlhttps://twitter.com/LeonieWatson/statuses/793111671401246720
(7 Retweets,  6 Likes)

1 November 2016
@torgo
Kicking off our @w3ctag developer meetup hosted by Nikkei and organized with the great help of @w3c Japan.
https://twitter.com/torgo/statuses/793754894184230912
(6 Retweets, 10 Likes)


2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality
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*     Tim Berners-Lee warns of danger of chaos in unprotected public data
1 November 2016
The Guardian
by Alice Ross
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/tim-berners-lee-warns-danger-of-chaos-unprotected-public-open-data


*     World wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee to join Oxford University
27 October 2016
Computer Weekly
by Alex Scroxton
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450401836/World-wide-web-inventor-Tim-Berners-Lee-to-join-Oxford-University



3) W3C and W3C technologies in the Press (or blogs)
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4 articles
[Most recent first. Find keywords on our Press clippings page: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]


*    Le World Wide Web Consortium à la rencontre du livre numérique et de l’EPUB 
"The World Wide Web Consortium to meet the eBook and EPUB"
3 November 2016
ActuaLitte
by Cécile Mazin
https://www.actualitte.com/article/lecture-numerique/le-world-wide-web-consortium-a-la-rencontre-du-livre-numerique-et-de-l-epub/67848


*    Having more trouble reading websites? You're not alone
2 November 2016
CBC News
by Dan Misener
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/misener-web-readability-1.3831009


*    HTML 5.1 Is Here, Replaces HTML5 As The New “W3C Recommendation”
2 November 2016
FossBytes
by ADARSH VERMA
https://fossbytes.com/html-5-1-is-here-replaces-html5-as-the-new-w3c-recommendation/


*    Internet Consortium and Publishing Forum Voting to Merge
31 October 2016
by Ellen Duffer
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenduffer/2016/10/31/internet-consortium-and-publishing-forum-voting-to-merge/#34916cac2cc7


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amy@w3.org

Received on Monday, 7 November 2016 21:46:01 UTC