On 6 August 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invited the world to use an "easy but powerful global information system” - the World Wide Web.
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt

The power of the web, of using technology to connect and share information, has changed all our lives.

The Web Fonts Working Group has published WOFF File Format 2.0 as an updated W3C Recommendation. Based on experience with WOFF 1.0, which is widely deployed, this specification was developed to provide improved compression and thus lower use of network bandwidth, while still allowing fast decompression even on mobile devices.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/updated-w3c-recommendation-woff-file-format-2-0/

W3C Invites Implementations of Payment Request API.

The Web Payments Working Group has republished Payment Request API as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.

Comments are welcome via GitHub by 1 October 2024.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-invites-implementations-of-payment-request-api/

The Federated Identity Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Federated Credential Management API, a Web Platform API that allows users to login to websites with their federated accounts in a privacy preserving manner.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/first-public-working-draft-federated-credential-management-api/