The World Wide Web

As the web evolves, where do practitioners congregate and exchange ideas? Working Groups develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security. publishes standards and drafts , which are then implemented by browser vendors, e.g., Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Topics of interest: accessibility, browser, CSS, data, DOM, digital publishing, graphics, HTML, HTTP, internationalization, media, performance, privacy, protocol, security, web API, web fonts, Web of Things (WoT), and XML....

Browser Market Share Worldwide (2009 - 2020). Source: [statcounter | GlobalStats](#browserShare20092020) At the very least, Chrome is worth studying. Something worked out. I’m biased, I only plan to deeply explore Chromium-based browsers and Firefox. Stability, Testing and the Multi-Process Architecture In a single-threaded browser, devs use asynchronous APIs - which may sometimes hold the browser up. Instead of multiple threads, Chromium chose multiple processes: isolation, independent crashes, better asymptotic memory management, identifying expensive sites, etc....

One of the grand dreams of the web is bringing people together so that they may find relevant information. Sometimes this is implicit, e.g. Google Search’s PageRank learns from inter-page links which are mostly made by people, but there may be room for explicit collaboration when navigating the web. This section explores such explicit attempts. #lost-in-hyperspace A Group Asynchronous Browsing (GAB) Server Premise: Users submit their subject hierarchies (bookmarks) to the GAB server....

32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ‘21) Reconstructing Ireland’s Lost History through the Beyond 2022 Project Aims to create a virtual 3-D reconstruction of the “Record Treasury” of the Public Record Office of Ireland in Dublin. The original one was destroyed in Ireland’s Civil War of 1922. Reassembling will use copies, transcripts and records scattered among archival partners. #digital-humanities The full text of discusses challenges presented by the Beyond 2022 project....

A Zooming Web Browser. Bederson, Benjamin B.; Hollan, James D.; Stewart, Jason; Rogers, David; Vick, David; Ring, Laura; Grose, Eric; Forsythe, Chris. Multimedia Computing and Networking, 1996. Vol. 2667. www.osti.gov . www.connectedpapers.com . Interesting because these were the early days of the web, back when Netscape was king. The web could have evolved in different ways. Why didn’t the zooming browser catch on? Problem Context Navigating the web presents a struggle between focus and context....

One can use curl -v <url> to see all of the redirections and cookies set. found that generating a tiny URL for Zoom links gives a URL that first goes to redirect.viglink.com. I tried this on https://tinyurl.com/yyte6pqv, which points to https://www.c13u.com/socioeconomics/2020-11-21-experiments-in-social-economics/, but didn’t observe any 3rd party cookies. tinyurl.com did set a cookie, but that’s probably expected. proposes Federated Learning of Cohorts, which aims to enable ad-targeting based on people’s general browsing interest without exposing the exact browsing history....

Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit; Facebook Monetizing Encrypted Messaging by Analyzing Metadata [Twitter]; An Apology for the Internet - How It Went Wrong [Intelligencer];