Web Payments; DPUB ARIA; FIDO2; Web driver; DWBP; Commonwealth Award; Payments Request; Verifiable Claims; WebRTC; Publishing Summit; Web Assembly

This is the 21 August - 4 September 2017 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]


24 August 2017
@justmoon
Replying to @Ripple @timberners_lee
Huge progress has been made this year at @w3c on #WebPayments and #Interledger. Awesome to have @timberners_lee at #SwellByRipple!
(51 Retweets, 120 Likes)


27 August 2017
@stevefaulkner
I added allowed DPUB ARIA roles to ARIA in HTML https://w3c.github.io/html-aria/#docconformance … Mike[tm]Smith is working to add them to the @w3c HTML checker
https://twitter.com/stevefaulkner/status/902101639716319232
(14 Retweets, 13 Likes)


29 August 2017
@brettmcdowell  Replying to @dgwbirch
We will soon finish #FIDO2 with @w3c resulting in a standard browser API for authenticators like this. Will @apple support it? #WhoKnows
https://twitter.com/brettmcdowell/status/902657239214850048
(11 Retweets, 7 Likes)


1 September 2017
@shs96c
The @googlechrome team are rapidly fleshing out their @w3c #webdriver implementation. Great work :) https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloadshttps://twitter.com/shs96c/status/903928729386266624
(9 Retweets, 29 Likes)


23 August 2017
@carolburle
#Data on the #Web Best Pactices #DWBP is suggested as the #standard to be used #Condatos17 @w3c @philarcher1 @bernafarias @newtoncalegari
https://twitter.com/carolburle/status/900506504595419136
(6 Retweets, 6 Likes)



2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality
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*    Mass Technology Leadership Council to Name Sir Tim Berners-Lee as 2017 Commonwealth Award Winner
22 August 2017
Director’s Talk
https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/mass-technology-leadership-council-to-name-sir-tim-berners-lee-as-2017-commonwealth-award-winner/412733996



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


*    In Other API Economy News: Browser Updates from Apple, Mozilla and More
31 August 2017
Programmable Web
by Wendell Santos
https://www.programmableweb.com/news/other-api-economy-news-browser-updates-apple-mozilla-and-more/brief/2017/08/31


*    Illinois Partners with Evernym to Launch Birth Registration Pilot
31 August 2017
Illinois Blockchain Tech
https://illinoisblockchain.tech/illinois-partners-with-evernym-to-launch-birth-registration-pilot-f2668664f67c


*   WebRTC Makes Life So Simple
24 August 2017
No Jitter
by Beth Schultz
http://www.nojitter.com/post/240172866/webrtc-makes-life-so-simple


*    The Interledger Protocol – a great disintermediator?
22 August 2017
Enterprise Times
by Charles Brett
https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2017/08/22/interledger-protocol-great-disintermediator/


*    W3C PUBLISHING SUMMIT TAKING PLACE ON NOVEMBER 9-10 IN SAN FRANCISCO
21 August 2017
Irish Tech News
by OSCAR MICHEL
http://irishtechnews.ie/w3c-publishing-summit-taking-place-on-november-9-10-in-san-francisco/


*    What’s new with WebAssembly portable code
21 August 2017
IT World
by Paul Krill
https://www.itworld.com/article/3217704/web-development/whats-new-with-webassembly-portable-code.html

Received on Monday, 4 September 2017 18:31:26 UTC