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 ...

One of the biggest challenges facing the World Wide Web? “Vendor greed. People who want to lock in to closed software,” says Molly Holzschlag. Which is one of the many reasons she’s spent the past 10 ...

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 ...

Web standards evangelist Lea Verou recently started working for the World Wide Web Consortium. This move is good news for web standards, as she is a passionate and high-profile communicator. And what ...

Google has said that it wants to bring the benefits of its AMP specification to sites that stick with Web standards, offering them the same prominent search positioning that it currently only gives to ...

When is a standard not a standard? Technology users are pondering that conundrum more and more as the industry moves to technology standards. Most are administered by a standards body, such as the ...

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 ...