IAB TCF

An open-source industry standard developed by IAB Europe that helps companies comply with GDPR and ePrivacy requirements when processing personal data in digital advertising ecosystems.

A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.

Sitemap

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

XML

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

Markdown

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

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.

Humans.txt

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

OpenAPI

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

RDF

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

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.

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.

Prerender

The rel="prerender" attribute on HTML elements.

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.

LLMs.txt

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

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.

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.

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.

A peer-to-peer protocol for storing and accessing files and websites in a decentralized file system.