XML

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

Trace Context

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

Text

The plain text document format.

Markdown

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

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.

CGI

An interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.

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#, and Rust.

LLMs.txt

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

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.

Humans.txt

A plain text file that allows website creators to identify and credit the people involved in developing a website.

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.

Prerender

A deprecated browser hint that instructed web browsers to preload and render a web page in the background before navigation occurred.

OpenAPI

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

OpenTelemetry

An open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework and toolkit for collecting, processing, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs.