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We published a new TAG Finding today: Installing Websites Must Be Easy.

After almost two decades of installable websites, we declare installation a core capability of browsers and encourage browser and OS vendors to:

* make the install option obvious, not buried several menus deep
* give all browser engines fair access and launch installed sites in the installing browser
* not gate capabilities behind installation unless necessary

https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/installing-websites-must-be-easy/

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The TAG has published the @w3c Group Note: Self-Review Questionnaire: Societal Impact

https://www.w3.org/TR/societal-impact-questionnaire/

The web should help people and benefit society. That means hard questions for anyone building web technologies to think through: who does a new technology affect, how can it be misused, and what happens when it reaches billions of people?

Edited by @csarven and @lolaodelola . Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3ctag/societal-impact-questionnaire/

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The TAG has published the @w3c Group Note: User Agents

https://www.w3.org/TR/user-agents/

It describes what makes software a user agent, e.g., browsers, search engines, voice-driven assistants, and generative AI systems acting on a person's behalf, and the duties owed to the user: protection, honesty, and loyalty.

Edited by @jyasskin and @csarven . Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3ctag/user-agents/

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