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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not long ago, the idea would have been unthinkable: Microsoft and IBM, sworn enemies after their struggle for control of the PC operating system in the early 1990s, laying down their swords and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...