New community groups are designed to make it easier to launch work on new Web technologies. Some of the first concentrate on Web payments and Web education. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Web standards help ensure that websites are interpreted in the same way across different platforms. Google has set standards for robots.txt but not for sitemaps. Security concerns influence web ...

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 ...

An industry split over a key Web services specification could come to a head next month when companies backing the proposal meet to hammer out details. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did Steve Jobs’ Adobe-Rage Help Flash More Than Hurt It? Steve Jobs directed righteous anger at Adobe this year, because Flash on iOS devices became a hot issue in the media. Then Apple backtracked, ...

An industry split over a key Web services specification could come to a head next month, when companies backing the proposal meet to hammer out details. Representatives from technology giants such as ...