Web Payments Traction in 2016 and Looking Ahead
“We are long overdue for a payments user interface for the web.”—Tim Berners-Lee, New York Times, 25 September 2016 The new payments user interface for the Web gained significant traction in 2016....
View ArticleWeb Payments Working Group PAG Recommends Continued Work
Today W3C announced the report of the Web Payments Working Group Patent Advisory Group (PAG). After analysis of the disclosed patents, the PAG recommended that the Working Group continue its work.
View ArticleGetting to CR!
The Web Payments Working Group meets 23-24 March in Chicago. On the agenda are these questions: Given progress on Payment Request API (and associated specifications) as well as Payment Handler API, are...
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Preparing to Advance Payment Request and Payment Handler APIs
Fifty people from more than 25 organizations attended the 23-24 March face-to-face meeting in Chicago of the Web Payments Working Group. We wanted to know whether we are ready to advance our most...
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Payment Handler API – First Public Working Draft Published
Today W3C published the First Public Working Draft of Payment Handler API. This diagram shows the relationship between Payment Request API and Payment Handler: In a typical scenario, a merchant calls...
View ArticlePayment Request API —Now Being Implemented in All Major Browsers— Advances on...
In early September I learned with excitement that the status of Payment Request API implementation in Webkit went from “Under Consideration” to “In Development.” That means that the API is being...
View ArticleRamping up for TPAC
W3C’s annual “big meeting” of groups takes place in the Bay Area this year. The Web Payments Working Group agenda is coming into view, and I think of it in four parts: Payment Request API. How is...
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TPAC Recap!
It’s the people that make TPAC worthwhile. More than 600 from the W3C community attended the annual “week of group meetings” this year: TPAC 2017 in Burlingame, California. With that many people over...
View ArticleMerchant Adoption, the Next Goal
I’m happy about the progress the Web Payments Working Group made in 2017, including: Payment Request API adoption by all major browsers and in a growing number of SDKs including Shopify, Stripe, and...
View ArticleA Crisper Picture of 3D Secure 2 and Payment Request
For several years, the Web Payments Working Group has discussed a range of ideas for layering security improvements on the user experience of Payment Request API. These have included: Encrypt response...
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