https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them

TIL that passkeys have support for remote attestation built-in. Once enabled by a service, without a US-American phone running software signed by a US-American company, on which you need to be signed in with your legal identity (thus rendering you unable to use it if you're sanctioned by the US), there is a pretty good chance that you'll be unable to use your passkeys in the future. That seems pretty damn terrible.

Don't use passkeys.

Data breaches, identity theft, and revocation: a real-world case study on why W3C is developing Verifiable Credential Barcodes

https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2026/data-breaches-identity-theft-and-revocation-a-real-world-case-study-on-why-w3c-is-developing-verifiable-credential-barcodes/

#verifiablecredentials

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well...
They're not laughing now.

W3C is pleased to announce that Consortium Members have elected the following people to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors:

Koichi Moriyama
Chris Needham
Theresa O'Connor
Florian Rivoal
Avneesh Singh
Léonie Watson
Hongru (Judy) Zhu

The W3C Board of Directors is the governing body of the Consortium.We thank the 12 candidates who ran in this election.
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/consortium-members-elect-board-of-directors/
#W3Cgoverance

The script standardized by Qin Shi Huang has now been officially encoded.

Unicode 18.0 was released last week, adding 13,007 characters to bring the total to more than 170,000. Of these new additions, 11,328 are Small Seal characters.

Recently updated an article about time & date: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/definitions-time/index.en.html

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/117247235937476398

The amount of money Omarchy is getting is absolutely insane. The Python Foundation has an annual budget of around $5 million, the Apache Foundation around $3 million. Meanwhile a niche Linux distribution raised $18M in 20 days.

Edit: it's not about a Linux distro. Much as it is not about "fairness in women's sports". Or "ethics in gaming journalism". Or "we need everyone's ids to protect children". These are all pushing fascism. So is this.

A spec is not an unordered list of normative statements & headings.

It is an English *composition* with an *audience* (multiple, in fact). It should be a narration that carries its audience along as it efficiently & comprehensively builds up their understanding of the topic.

Today marks the 38th anniversary of Joe Becker's landmark document *Unicode 88*, the manifesto that first laid out the principles of a universal character encoding.

Thirty-eight years later, the work continues. Happy anniversary, Unicode!

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2487

your attitude toward the currently proliferating "AI" technologies (as you define it) is mostly...

please boost to include others.
comments open for context and perspective sharing.

The agenda for the "E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents" workshop has been announced: https://www.w3.org/2026/ecommerce-agents/agenda.html

Eemeli Aro (@eemeli) talks about "DOM Localization" at the Web Engines Hackfest 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuyIQNr_fh0&list=PL4sEzdAGvRgDkOXbVAbnOWCaIOV_evSfo

Find more details here:

https://www.w3.org/TR/international-specs/#lang-matching

What should your app return if it supports 20 languages ​​and a user sets their system language to "French (Switzerland)", but you only support `fr-FR` / `fr`? Returning an English fallback might cause you to lose that user.

This issue is known as language tag matching. The i18n WG has just added a section on this topic to its best practices document. The underlying core specification is BCP 47, which defines two matching modes: Lookup and Filtering.

REFRESHED! Ruby Styling

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/ruby/styling.en

Offers practical guidance for content authors on how to style ruby annotations in line with the CSS Ruby specification.

This article was updated to include recent developments, and add information on ruby-overhang and the ruby-position:alternate value.

Using a website in your own language and it just didn’t work properly?

That’s the kind of problem we work on at W3C.

We keep a Project Radar so everyone can see what the i18n activity is tackling right now: closing gaps in language support, reviewing standards, and building education resources.

https://w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/projects/

Nice project. Raised https://github.com/NiklasMerz/webcompat/issues/15 to add i18n sources.

New translation into Chinese:

管理中文和日文中的行内空白 (Managing inline spaces in Chinese & Japanese)
https://www.w3.org/International/articles/styling/inline-space.zh-hans.html

REFRESHED! Styling vertical Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian text

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/vertical-text/

It explains how to use CSS to produce vertical text.

This article was updated to include recent developments, and improve the format.

Some new content was also added. For example, it indicates how to make select options vertical using emerging CSS properties. It also explains why horizontal script languages should not use vertical- properties, but sideways- properties instead.

This week we opened the applications for travel support for TPAC 2026: the TPAC Inclusion Fund and the Invited Experts Support Fund. They are designed to help reduce barriers for participation and increase diversity at TPAC, acknowledging the positive contributions of participants and Invited Experts who have shown commitment through their positive contributions to the work of W3C groups.

Applications are open until 31 July 2026.

See more at:
https://www.w3.org/news/2026/w3c-opens-inclusion-fund-and-invited-expert-fund-for-tpac-2026/
#w3cTPAC