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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

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⚡ Technologies

We track 52 technologies owned or developed by World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. that are used across the web.

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1
Charset

Declaration directive, specified via an HTML meta tag or HTTP headers, defines the character encoding used to interpret text in a web document.

2
CSS

A stylesheet language used to control the presentation of HTML and XML documents, defining layout, colors, typography, and responsive behavior across different devices.

3
HTML

A markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.

4
ARIA

A W3C technical specification that defines how to improve the accessibility of web content and applications, particularly those with dynamic interfaces and custom controls.

5
JSON-LD

A lightweight linked data format used to embed structured data into web pages.

6
⏳ Lazy loading

A technique to load non-critical images and iframes marked with the loading="lazy" attribute only when needed.

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DNS Prefetch

The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.

8
SearchAction

A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.

9
Web Storage

A browser API and client-side key-value database that allows websites to store persistent data on users' devices.

10
Preconnect

The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML elements.

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Preload

The rel="preload" attribute on HTML elements.

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Microdata

An HTML specification that is used to nest metadata within a document, in parallel with the existing content.

13
CSP

The Content-Security-Policy HTTP response header and meta tag are used to control what resources a given page can load.

14
Table Element

The HTML element represents tabular data and has been widely used in the past for designing layouts.

15
Progressive Web App

A type of web app that can be installed on a device as a standalone application.

16
Video Element

The HTML element, introduced in HTML5.

17
XMLHttpRequest

A JavaScript API to create HTTP requests.

18
Fetch

A modern XMLHttpRequest alternative for fetching network resources.

19
XHTML

An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.

20
Font Element

The HTML element, deprecated since HTML 4.

21
Navigation Timing

A part of the Performance API that provides metrics related to navigation from one page to another.

22
CORS

An HTTP header-based mechanism used to safely bypass same-origin policy and allow requests to other domains.

23
Beacon API

Used to send asynchronous and non-blocking requests to a web server.

24
Template Element

The HTML element, introduced in HTML5.

25
Prefetch

The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML elements.

26
Trace Context

Defines standard HTTP headers and a value format for propagating context information that enables distributed tracing.

27
PerformanceObserver

A part of the Performance API that is used to monitor performance measurement events.

28
RDFa

An extension to HTML5 that adds attributes to markup things like people, places, events, recipes, and reviews.

29
Object Element

The HTML element.

30
Canvas Element

The HTML element, introduced in HTML5.

31
Dialog Element

The HTML element.

32
Audio Element

The HTML element, introduced in HTML5.

33
Text

The plain text document format.

34
XML

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing structured data in a platform-independent way.

35
Embed Element

The HTML element.

36
Frame Element

The HTML element, deprecated in HTML 5.

37
Geolocation API

Allows web applications to retrieve the user's location, including latitude and longitude.

38
RDF

A W3C standard model to describe and exchange graph data on the web.

39
WebAssembly

A portable binary instruction format that runs in modern web browsers with near-native performance, enabling frontend coding in languages that were not traditionally used for web interfaces, such as C/C++, C#, and Rust.

40
IndexedDB

A transactional NoSQL database system for the persistent storage of structured data inside a user's browser.

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Webmention

A simple protocol to notify any URL when a website links to it, and for web pages to request notifications when somebody links to them.

42
Notifications API

Used to configure and display desktop notifications to the user.

43
Screen Orientation API

Exposes the current type and angle of the device's screen orientation, and dispatches events when it changes.

44
WCAG

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a set of recommendations for making web content more accessible, developed by W3C.

45
Bgsound Element

The obsolete HTML element.

46
ESI

A simple markup language used to define web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of web applications at the edge of the Internet.

47
Applet Element

The HTML element, deprecated in HTML 4.01.

48
IndieAuth

A decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.

49
Micropub

An HTTP-based client-server protocol used to create, update, and delete posts on servers using third-party clients.

50
Math Element

The HTML element.

51
XSLT

A language designed for transforming XML documents into other documents.

52
Amaya

A discontinued open source WYSIWYG web editor.

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