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W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group

W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group

  The W3C Advisory Committee has elected the following people to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG): Alice Boxhall (Google), Sangwhan Moon (Odd Concepts) and Theresa O’Connor (Apple). They join co-Chair Tim Berners-Lee and continuing participants, Daniel Appelquist (Samsung Electronics; co-Chair), David Baron (Mozilla Foundation), Hadley Beeman (W3C Invited Expert), Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (Intel Corporation), […]

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New version of the Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile

W3C has published a new version of its Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile, an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context. The contents of the roadmap have been updated to follow the evolution of the Web […]

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2018, celebrating our global Webmaster community

2018 has been a very important year for our webmaster support community. What has happened? There’s been a program rebranding, a global summit, and loads of community hangouts. In October, the former Top Contributors became Gold Product Experts, and the Rising Stars, Silver Product Experts. This rebranding happened throughout all of the product forums and […]

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Happy holidays from W3C!

Happy holidays from W3C!

For all we will accomplish together in 2019 and for all you have done to lead the Web to its full potential in 2018, thank you! The W3C wishes you a happy holiday season. Source: W3C News Feed

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Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site

Mobile-First indexing, structured data, images, and your site

It’s been two years since we started working on “mobile-first indexing” – crawling the web with smartphone Googlebot, similar to how most users access it. We’ve seen websites across the world embrace the mobile web, making fantastic websites that work on all kinds of devices. There’s still a lot to do, but today, we’re happy […]

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Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 (Accname) as a W3C Recommendation. Accname describes how user agents determine the names and descriptions of accessible objects from web content languages. The name is a simple label for the object, and the description provides additional information. These are both […]

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First Public Working Drafts: The Profiles Ontology; Content Negotiation by Profile

The Dataset Exchange Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts today: The Profiles Ontology is an RDF vocabulary to describe profiles of (one or more) standards for information resources. It describes the general pattern of narrowing the scope of a specification with additional, but consistent, constraints, and is particularly relevant to data exchange […]

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Why & how to secure your website with the HTTPS protocol

A few days ago, Fatih Ozkosemen and I led an episode of the AdSense On Air series. This program consists of monthly videos which cover many topics of interest to online publishers (we recommend you sign up if you use Google AdSense). The November 2018 version was dedicated to HTTPS migrations. You can find the […]

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Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams

Introducing the Indexing API and structured data for livestreams

Over the past few years, it’s become easier than ever to stream live videos online, from celebrity updates to special events. But it’s not always easy for people to determine which videos are live and know when to tune in. Today, we’re introducing new tools to help more people discover your livestreams in Search and […]

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Rich Results expands for Question & Answer pages

Rich Results expands for Question & Answer pages

People come to Google seeking information about all kinds of questions.Frequently, the information they’re looking for is on sites where users ask and answer each other’s questions. Popular social news sites, expert forums, and help and support message boards are all examples of this pattern. A screenshot of an example search result for a page […]

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