W3C Public Newsletter, 2019-06-10

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W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board

   4 June 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7762>

   The W3C Advisory Committee has filled seven open seats on the W3C Advisory Board, including two new seats created by the 1 March 2019 W3C Process Document. Beginning 1 July 2019, the following new elected participants, Elika J Etemad (W3C Invited Expert), Charles McCathie Nevile (ConsenSys), Avneesh Singh (DAISY Consortium), Eric Siow (Intel), Léonie Watson (TetraLogical), Chris Wilson (Google) and Judy (Hongru) Zhu (Alibaba), will join continuing participants Jay (Junichi) Kishigami (NTT), Florian Rivoal (W3C Invited Expert), Tzviya Siegman (Wiley) and David Singer (Apple). Many thanks to Michael Champion (Microsoft) and Natasha Rooney (W3C Invited Expert), whose terms end this month.

   <https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#changes>

   Created in March 1998, the Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the W3C Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. For several years, the AB has conducted its work in a public wiki.

   <https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB>

   The elected Members of the Advisory Board participate as individual contributors and not representatives of their organizations. Advisory Board participants use their best judgment to find the best solutions for the Web, not just for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user. Read more about the Advisory Board.

   <https://www.w3.org/2002/ab/>

First Public Working Draft: CSS Overscroll Behavior Module Level 1

   6 June 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7779>

   The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "CSS Overscroll Behavior Module Level 1." This module defines "overscroll-behavior" to control the behavior when the scroll position of a scroll container reaches the edge of the scrollport. This allows content authors to hint that the boundary default actions, such as scroll chaining and overscroll, should not be triggered.

   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/WD-css-overscroll-1-20190606/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/WD-css-overscroll-1-20190606/#propdef-overscroll-behavior>

   "CSS" is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/>

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Values and Units Module Level 3

   6 June 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7776>

   The CSS Working Group has published an updated Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Values and Units Module Level 3." This CSS module describes the common values and units that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions.

   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/CR-css-values-3-20190606/>

   "CSS" is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/>

First Public Working Draft: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 2

   4 June 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7769>

   The Web Authentication Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 2." This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users. Conceptually, one or more public key credentials, each scoped to a given WebAuthn Relying Party, are created by and bound to authenticators as requested by the web application. The user agent mediates access to authenticators and their public key credentials in order to preserve user privacy. Authenticators are responsible for ensuring that no operation is performed without user consent. Authenticators provide cryptographic proof of their properties to Relying Parties via attestation. This specification also describes the functional model for WebAuthn conformant authenticators, including their signature and attestation functionality.

   <https://www.w3.org/Webauthn/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/WD-webauthn-2-20190604/>

W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on a single version of HTML and DOM

   28 May 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7753>

   Today W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. The Memorandum of Understanding jointly published as the WHATWG/W3C Joint Working Mode gives the specifics of this collaboration. This is the culmination of a careful exploration of effective partnership mechanisms since December 2017 after the WHATWG adopted many shared features as their work-mode and an IPR policy.

   <https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU>
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/whatwg-working-mode-changes/>

   The HTML Working Group which we will soon recharter will assist the W3C community in raising issues and proposing solutions for the HTML and DOM specifications, and bring WHATWG Review Drafts to Recommendation.

   <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2019Apr/0004>

   Motivated by the belief that having two distinct HTML and DOM specifications claiming to be normative is generally harmful for the community, and the mutual desire to bring the work back together, W3C and WHATWG agree to the following terms:

     * W3C and WHATWG work together on HTML and DOM, in the WHATWG repositories, to produce a Living Standard and Recommendation/Review Draft-snapshots
     * WHATWG maintains the HTML and DOM Living Standards
     * W3C facilitates community work directly in the WHATWG repositories (bridging communities, developing use cases, filing issues, writing tests, mediating issue resolution)
     * W3C stops independent publishing of a designated list of specifications related to HTML and DOM and instead will work to take WHATWG Review Drafts to W3C Recommendations

   W3C remains committed to ensuring that HTML development continues to take into account the needs of the global community, and continues to improve in areas such as accessibility, internationalization and privacy while providing greater interoperability, performance and security.

   You may read in W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe’s blog post W3C and WHATWG to work together to advance the open Web platform further contextual information and additional aspects of the collaboration.

   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/05/w3c-and-whatwg-to-work-together-to-advance-the-open-web-platform/>

   More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>

Workshops

     * 2019-06-27 (27 JUN) – 2019-06-28 (28 JUN)
       W3C Workshop on Web Games
       <https://www.w3.org/2018/12/games-workshop/>
       Redmond, WA, USA
       Hosted by Microsoft

W3C Blog

     * W3C and WHATWG to work together to advance the open Web platform
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/05/w3c-and-whatwg-to-work-together-to-advance-the-open-web-platform/>
       28 May 2019 by Jeff Jaffe
       <http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/>

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