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The international web standards organization W3C is no longer active on X/Twitter and has directed all their followers to Mastodon. (w3c.social)
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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 141 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

About time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

ActivityPub is a standard for the Internet in the Social Web Networking Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standard was co-authored by Evan Prodromou, creator of StatusNet (now known as GNU social). At an earlier stage, the name of the protocol was "ActivityPump", but it was felt that ActivityPub better indicated the cross-publishing purpose of the protocol. It is the most widely supported standard (by some margin) in the Fediverse.

Full force fediverse

[–] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean W3C created ActivityPub, it's only fitting they peruse what they had created

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Peruse" means to read carefully.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

There are many memes to be perused

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

When the nerds that invent and maintain the internet do something then I know it means something

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Great news

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Let the web2 exodus, BEGIN!!!!!!

[–] aeharding@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

If anything... I'm surprised it took so long!

[–] FaizalR@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

I just followed them on Mastodon a few days ago.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

This is great. A big thing like W3C switching to Mastodon surely will have an impact

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago

You might check out this - https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] aeharding@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Good to hear!

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Good!

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They went downhill after ms got control anyway.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah screw the w3c. Only use they got these days is for html tutorials.

[–] lea@feddit.de 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Fun fact: w3schools has nothing to do with w3c and there used to be a whole website dedicated to giving them shit. They've apparently gotten much better these days though.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Honestly I have much less of a problem with some degree of inaccurate info than wasting my time by not immediately geting to the point in concisely giving me the bit of syntax I was searching for to begin with. That's what they've always got right that other sources were getting wrong.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh so I have absolutely no reason to even like w3c at all? Dont use w3cschools much anymore these days. I know they have other stuff for more languages but theres better resources when it comes to those.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What’s your issue with the W3C?

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

They allowed for the inclusion of DRM into HTML5. This DRM is not open-source, can't even be source audited and refused to back down. Such a move caused the EFF (electronic frontier foundation) to resign from the group. Here's the EFF's letter where they outline these issues if you want to give it a read: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

I could also write about them bowing to Google but the DRM thing annoys me more.

And then Tim Berners-Lee has the audacity to complain about the state of the internet. Something his group could've actually stopped or slowed.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

May I present the super alternative:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML

And afterwards get everything else at:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Big +1 for MDN.

The Mozilla Developer Network should be considered the standard reference for frontend HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

(Aside from, you know, the actual standards. But those documents aren't exactly approachable for new developers.)

[–] DarkenLM@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

It isn't?

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah. Forgot that exists. Their image-border generator was far better than the w3c equivalent.