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.

Humans.txt

A text file that can be created by developers to list the people who have contributed to a website.

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.

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.

OpenAPI

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

Markdown

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

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.

XML

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

RDF

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

IDN

Internationalized Domain Names allow people around the world to use domain names in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, or Cyrillic.

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.

ActivityPub

A decentralized social networking protocol used by various Fediverse services such as Mastodon, Pixelfed, and PeerTube.

Prerender

The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.

Onion

Sites are websites on the dark web that use the .onion top-level domain and are only accessible through online routing through Tor.

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.

LLMs.txt

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

Rack

A minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged.

A non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography.

OpenTelemetry

A vendor- and tool-agnostic observability framework and toolkit for creating and managing telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.

XRDS

An XML-based file format that provides a list of service endpoints (e.g., OpenID) available on a website.

XMP

An ISO standard for creating, processing, and exchanging metadata for digital documents.

Micropub

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

IndieAuth

A decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.