WWW Watering Hole

Dated Feb 9, 2025; last modified on Sun, 09 Feb 2025

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.

When proposing a change to the web platform, authors start out by writing explainers . Browser vendors have tend to have centralized locations for explainers, e.g. , , , etc.

was formed to cater more to HTML and needs of real-world web developers, in contrast to . Topics of interest: compatibility, compression, console, DOM, encodings, fetch, file system, fullscreen API, HTML, infra, MIME sniffing; notifications, quirks mode, storage, streams, test utils, URL, URL pattern, web IDL, web sockets, XMLHttpRequest.

Research Journals

ACM’s sessions in 2024 were: interactive media: art and design AI reports; applications; authoring practices; critical reading; digital communities; explorations; directions; scholarship; social media practices; interactive narratives; practitioners; workshops.

ACM’s sessions in 2024 were: economics, online markets, and human computation; graph algorithms and learning for the web; responsible web; search; security; semantics and knowledge; social networks, social media, and society; systems and infrastructure for web, mobile, and WoT; user modeling and recommendation; web mining and content analysis; web for good.

has several tracks, e.g., and .

Technical Browser Vendor Sites

documents when various features are released on the open web. is targeted at web developers. Can be considered as a distilled and editorialized version of . Other websites in the same space: for Safari; and for Firefox.

features helpful guides; affiliated with Chrome.

Blogs

contains a list of people responsible for APIs exposed by Blink to the open web. As such, they’re influential people on the web platform given Chrome’s dominance. Owners with active blogs:

is the co-author of browser.engineering ; a book that explains building a basic but complete web browser, from networking to JavaScript, in a couple thousand lines of Python.

References

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  3. Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). whatwg.org . Accessed Feb 9, 2025.
  4. SIGWEB - Hypertext (HT). www.sigweb.org . Accessed Feb 9, 2025.
  5. SIGWEB - The Web Conference. www.sigweb.org . Accessed Feb 9, 2025.
  6. Writing Effective Explainers for W3C TAG Review. tag.w3.org . Accessed Feb 9, 2025.
  7. Explainers by Googlers. github.com . Accessed Feb 9, 2025.
  8. MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers: Home for explainer documents originated by the Microsoft Edge team. github.com . Accessed Feb 9, 2025.
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