We'd love to help with your Web-related specification. Here’s how.
The TAG is a service organization. It exists to help ensure that the web makes sense as a platform, that the bits fit together in natural ways, and that the design is coherent. The TAG serves as an advocate for developer interests and consistent design principles.
The TAG focuses primarily on providing technical feedback to people designing APIs and looking to evolve existing designs. That tends to take the form of collaborative design review of proposals and/or specifications. These reviews start with a discussion between TAG members and spec authors, sometimes on a call or face-to-face meeting, and result in written feedback to the design.
The TAG is happy to provide feedback on nearly any Web-related specification, including work happening outside the W3C. To get TAG feedback, open a review issue in our design-reviews repository.
Before opening a design review request, you should read:
We also suggest you read the Ethical Web Principles which forms the basis for some of the actionable advice we provide in the Web Platform Design Principles and the Security & Privacy Questionnaire.
A positive review doesn’t mean that a spec is “supported” by the TAG or that the design is free of issues, but hopefully it’ll help improve the designs of APIs that request feedback.
When a specification is being worked on actively in a W3C working group, please ensure that the group chair has agreed to request a TAG review before requesting it.
Read this page for more information about our design review process.
Periodically, the TAG has held events to gather different parts of the community to discuss experiences with the Web Platform, current work, and future developments. The COVID-19 situation has curtailed this activty.
These have been great opportunities to not only engage with the TAG, but also a wider set of developers. The TAG wants to understand what problems are most important to developers in order to ensure that new designs solve important issues and that feature designers are paying attention to community needs.
See the Extensible Web Summit site for more information on some of these events. We look forward to restarting direct engagement with the developer community via events when possible.
During TPAC (the W3C’s major annual conference), TAG members attend Working Group sessions to understand what’s going on in different parts of the W3C, and to offer feedback and guidance.
You can request that TAG members be present if you think it will help move your discussions forward; depending on the nature of the issue, this might include some or all of the TAG.
Keep in mind that (like many other people), we’re pretty busy during TPAC, so please request such a meeting as early as you can by contacting the TAG chairs.
Issues that aren’t related to a specification can be discussed on the www-tag mailing list. Although the TAG is not actively using this mailing list, we do comntinue to monitor it. If you need a response from the TAG, it’s best to get something into the design-reviews issue tracker or raise an issue via github on one of our other documents.