The old days of the wild west of Web development are long gone. In the early days, HTML coders quickly became webmasters because they had to master how to hack HTML to do things it was never intended ...

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 ...

With its second I9 preview release, Microsoft tries to bring developers a more standardized Web. But can you make an omelet without breaking eggs? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Defining and reaching consensus on web standards is a daunting task indeed. Trying to get the entire internet community to concur on new standards may be best compared to the time honored cliche of ...

Back in January I wrote that HTML 5 would prove one of the big stories of 2008. You agreed and made it the 6th most popular post at this blog for 2008. Maybe we were both wrong. As I write this in ...

An industry group made up the four major browser vendors, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, have won a tug-of-war with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body for the ...

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 ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today declared that the Web ...

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, ...

In incarnations past, I have had debates, public and otherwise, with friends and colleagues who have asserted that HTML5 (by which we really mean HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3) will essentially become the ...

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 ...