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.

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.

OpenAPI

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

Sitemap

A file in XML format that allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling.

Markdown

A markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents.

Text

The plain text document format.

XML

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

RDF

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

Prerender

The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.

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.

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.

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.

WebAssembly

A portable binary code format that can be run in modern web browsers with near-native performance.

OpenTelemetry

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

WCAG

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

AdChoices

A self-regulatory standard for online interest-based advertising that gives consumers enhanced control over the collection and use of their data to deliver relevant ads.

IndieAuth

A decentralized identity protocol built on top of OAuth 2.0.

ActivityPub

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

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

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.

Onion

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

IDN

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

Micropub

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

XMP

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