Web Editing Working Group Charter Extended until 2 July 2026

Dear members of the Web Editing Working Group,

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing list 
to notify the group of its charter extension.

Best regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  VOTE by 2026-04-30: Proposed Charter for the Web Editing 
Working Group; Current Charter Extended
Date:  Thu, 2 Apr 2026 21:03:52 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

This is a Call for Review of a proposed recharter for the Web Editing 
Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2026/04/webediting-wg-charter.html

Please review the charter and indicate your support using this online form:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/webediting-wg-charter-2026/

The deadline for responses is 23:59 UTC on 2026-04-30 [0].

The mission of the Web Editing Working Group is to explore limitations 
in existing browser primitives, provide use cases for new APIs and 
suggest solutions either by standardizing of existing behaviors or 
introducing new APIs relevant for text editing. The goal is to 
facilitate the creation of fully-featured editing systems as well as 
small editors using JavaScript.

The group scope remains unchanged. The proposed charter includes Caret 
Movement among the tentative deliverables. An editorial change has also 
been made to the Motivation and Background section to explicitly mention 
collaborative editing.

Current participants will not need to rejoin the group if the revised 
charter is approved.

The horizontal review of the charter is available as a Strategy Github 
repository issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/522

A disposition of comments on the draft charter is available at:
https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Acharter

To see all changes relative to the current charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F09%2Fwebediting-charter-2023.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F04%2Fwebediting-wg-charter.html

The current charter [1] is hereby extended until 2 July 2026 to 
accommodate the charter review period.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [2], 
including information about group Chair, Staff Contact, and instructions 
for joining the group.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Xiaoqian Wu <xiaoqian@w3.org>, Web Editing WG Staff Contact.

This charter review and extension follow section 4.4 and section 4.6 of 
the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#CharterReview
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-extension

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy,
Xiaoqian Wu, Web Editing WG Staff Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[0] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=VOTE+by+2026-04-30%3A+Proposed+Charter+for+the+Web+Editing+Working+Group&iso=20260430T2359&p1=1440
[1] https://www.w3.org/2023/09/webediting-charter-2023.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webediting/