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.

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.

A Group Asynchronous Browsing (GAB) Server

Premise: Users submit their subject hierarchies (bookmarks) to the GAB server. The GAB server then forms a multitree from these hierarchies.

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.

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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.

proposes Federated Learning of Cohorts, which aims to enable ad-targeting based on people’s general browsing interest without exposing the exact browsing history.