WebDriver; TBL and #TheWebConf; Progressive Web Apps; Anniversaries; Net Neutrality; WebAssembly; Web Payments; WebRTC; WebAuthn; WAI

This is the 2 -23 April 2018  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]


25 April 2018
@shs96c
Woohoo! The @w3c #webdriver specification is now a Proposed Recommendation! This is the final step before it moves to Recommendation and becomes a standard. https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/  Huge thanks to everyone who’s helped get us this far!
https://twitter.com/shs96c/status/989400973658476544
(71 Retweets, 151 Likes)


25 April 2018
@TheWebConf
.@timberners_lee (@MIT_CSAIL, @w3c) #TheWebConf
https://twitter.com/TheWebConf/status/989416010594902016
(61 Retweets, 88 Likes)


26 April 2018
@tomayac
Great overview presentation on Progressive Web Apps by @kennethrohde at the #TheWebConf @w3c track: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nvFcecgJlulr0BWxAJDjIOagWouMYFHSvUv6suRuRro/mobilepresent …. Basic support by Apple (details: https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/989493178389712896?s=20 …), PWAs in the @MicrosoftStore. @TheWebConf
https://twitter.com/tomayac/status/989800868227833856
(9 Retweets, 40 Likes)


25 April 2018
@micbuffa
Metallica with #webaudio plugins (guitar amp sim, synthesizers from @webaudiomodules and FAUST by @Grame_Lyon) @TheWebConf in Lyon. Master of Puppets played only using @w3c Web standard APIs :-) Come to see us we're demoing this in the exhibition hall.
https://twitter.com/micbuffa/status/989376473504075777
(9 Retweets, 28 Likes)



2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality
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*  25 years ago today, the web opened up and the world changed
30 April 2018
Fast Company
by HARRY MCCRACKEN
https://www.fastcompany.com/40565692/25-years-ago-today-the-web-opened-up-and-the-world-changed


*  Mosaic, the First HTML Browser That Could Display Images Alongside Text, Turns 25 
24 April 2018
Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/04/23/210221/mosaic-the-first-html-browser-that-could-display-images-alongside-text-turns-25


*  At net neutrality panel, Tim Berners-Lee says open internet is 'a human right’
20 April 2018
Biz Journals
by Paige Smith
https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/04/20/at-net-neutrality-panel-tim-berners-lee-says-open.html



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 ]

*  How to run .Net apps in the browser with Blazor
1 May 2018
InfoWorld
by Simon Bisson
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3269478/web-development/how-to-run-net-apps-in-the-browser-with-blazor.html


*  Santander Deploys Ripple In OnePay FX and Apple May Adopt Interledger Protocol
27 April 2018
Payments Journal
by Tim Sloane
http://paymentsjournal.com/santander-ripple-onepay-apple-interledger-protocol/


*  Why now is the time for WebRTC
26 April 2018
Computerworld
by Shan Sinha
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3269391/unified-communications/why-now-is-the-time-for-webrtc.html


*  FIDO’s Roadmap To eCommerce’s ‘Holy Grail’
24 April 2018
PYMNTS
https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2018/fido-world-wide-web-consortium-passwords/


*  16 Tools for Website Accessibility
23 April 2018
Practical ECommerce
by SIG UELAND
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/16-tools-website-accessibility



*  Turn static CSS3/HTML5 menu into dynamic with PHP/MYSQL
20 April 2018
Site Point
https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/turn-static-css3-html5-menu-into-dynamic-with-php-mysql/295003

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