OpenID

A decentralized authentication protocol based on OAuth 2.0 that enables applications to verify a user's identity through an external identity provider instead of managing credentials directly.

GraphQL

A data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.

Text

The plain text document format.

A set of criteria defined by the independent Acceptable Ads Committee that allows publishers to reach ad-blocking users with respectful, non-intrusive and relevant ads.

Markdown

A lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.

LLMs.txt

A proposed standard that provides structured content and instructions to guide large language models in understanding and summarizing a website's content.

RelMeAuth

A proposed open standard for using rel-me links to profiles on OAuth supporting services to authenticate via either those profiles or your own site.

Onion

Sites are websites that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through Tor, a decentralized anonymity network that relays traffic to hide the IP addresses of both visitors and hosts.

JSON Web Token

An open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object.

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.

OpenAPI

A specification language for defining HTTP APIs, typically written in YAML or JSON.

Trace Context

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

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.