⚡ Standards in Zambia

HTML

A markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.

CSS

A stylesheet language used to control the presentation of and documents, defining layout, colors, typography, and responsive behavior across different devices.

JSON

A lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.

RSD

An XML format that allows client software to discover services provided by web publishing systems.

DNS Prefetch

The rel="dns-prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to resolve domain names for external resources before those resources are requested.

Open Graph

A web metadata standard that defines how webpages are described as structured objects for use in social graphs and enables their consistent representation.

XFN

An HTML microformat that represents human relationships by adding metadata to hyperlinks between websites and profiles.

Preconnect

The rel="preconnect" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs browsers to establish early connections to external origins before resources are requested.

Speculation Rules

A browser API that improves navigation performance by prefetching or prerendering pages that users are likely to visit next.

SearchAction

A structured data type from Schema.org that describes a website's search capability.

Pingback

An XML-RPC-based protocol that allows websites to notify each other when one links to another.

Preload

The rel="preload" attribute on HTML <link> elements instructs web browsers to fetch important resources early before they are requested during page rendering.

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.

Sass

A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.

OAuth

An open standard authorization protocol that allows applications to obtain limited access to user accounts without sharing passwords across web, mobile, and desktop environments.

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.

OpenSearch

A specification that describes a website's search engine, enabling browsers, apps, and services to discover and integrate it.

Prefetch

The rel="prefetch" attribute on HTML <link> elements tells the browser to download resources that are likely to be needed for future navigation when the current page is idle.

XHTML

An XML-based markup language that extends HTML 4.

CGI

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

RDF

A W3C standard model for describing and exchanging graph-based data on the web.

Trace Context

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

YAML

A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.

Markdown

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

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.