commentary How should industry standards be set? Should the companies that develop those standards be allowed to profit from them? If so, who'll determine what those profits should be? Those are some ...

Google's Gary Illyes explains how web standards benefit SEO, focusing on the differences between robots.txt and sitemaps. Web standards help ensure that websites are interpreted in the same way across ...

Google is taking what it learned from AMP and developing web standards that will allow non-AMP content to load instantly. In an announcement from Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, the team ...

COMMENTARY--The ubiquity of today's Internet-based computing infrastructure has taught us that standards are good. But, as you may recall from childhood sugar hangovers the day after Halloween, too ...

The purpose of the Web Standards is to identify and define the standards, guidelines, processes, and best practices associated with the design, development, hosting, maintenance, and stewardship of ...

Having declared a victory in the battle to make Web browsers more inclusive, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) relaunched itself this week with the new goal of educating Web developers about the ...

In an effort to better acquaint Web developers with the open technologies that can be used to build Web applications, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has launched a Web site with tutorials and ...

As technology consumers, we accept that the Web is built on open standards. We are told that an entire standards body, the W3C, exists to maintain them. Dig a little further, however, and we find that ...