The Website Specification

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A platform-agnostic specification of the technical features every decent website should have — from to /.well-known/security.txt, from WCAG contrast to llms.txt. Written for humans and agents.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>WARC, Web ARChive file format</h1> <p>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:49:54 +0000</p> The WARC (Web ARChive) format specifies a method for combining multiple digital resources into an aggregate archival file together with related information. The WARC format is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC File Format [ARC_IA] format that has traditionally been used to store "web crawls" as sequences of content blocks harvested from the World Wide Web. The WARC format generalizes the older format to better support the harvesting, access, and exchange needs of archiving organizations. Besides the primary content currently recorded, the revision accommodates related secondary content, such as assigned metadata, abbreviated duplicate detection events, and later-date transformations.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #archival #archive #archiving #at:aadl #formats #imported:pinboard #standards #via:textfiles #warc #web</p> </article> <article> <h1>Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann</h1> <p>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:15:19 +0000</p> I think it is a sign that as developers we are either terribly bored or we are out of ideas when we start to go down to bickering about violating accepted ways of development. We should concentrate on building amazing tools and experiences for users out there rather than smugly trying to undo conventions we’ve been following for years now. The web standards movement was not about enforcing arbitrary code syntax on poor developers who now have to type a few keys more. It is about making code predictable, extensible and easy to explain to newcomers. Confusing these matters doesn’t help the cause of making a new generation of developers embrace the web as a platform. Don’t be that guy.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #amen #code #coding #imported:pinboard #javascript #standards #to:fb #twitter #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons | Christian Heilmann</h1> <p>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:15:19 +0000</p> I think it is a sign that as developers we are either terribly bored or we are out of ideas when we start to go down to bickering about violating accepted ways of development. We should concentrate on building amazing tools and experiences for users out there rather than smugly trying to undo conventions we’ve been following for years now. The web standards movement was not about enforcing arbitrary code syntax on poor developers who now have to type a few keys more. It is about making code predictable, extensible and easy to explain to newcomers. Confusing these matters doesn’t help the cause of making a new generation of developers embrace the web as a platform. Don’t be that guy.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #amen #code #coding #javascript #standards #to:fb #twitter #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>The Open Graph Protocol</h1> <p>Fri, 28 May 2010 04:31:41 +0000</p> "The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to enable any web page to have the same functionality as a Facebook Page."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #facebook #metadata #opengraph #rdf #socialgraph #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>Web Database - W3C HTML5</h1> <p>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:13:09 +0000</p> "This specification defines an API for storing data in databases that can be queried using a variant of SQL."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #databases #html5 #sql #standards #w3c #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>Eric's Archived Thoughts: JavaScript Will Save Us All</h1> <p>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:07:43 +0000</p> "we’re all vendors now, baby!"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #css #css3 #diy #html #html4 #html5 #javascript #js #markup #standards #vendors #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 default behaviour</h1> <p>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:25:08 +0000</p> "Just now the IE team announced that it's reversing its policy on the default behaviour of IE8, which shows that it has been paying close attention to the discussion of its versioning proposal. I admit that I hadn't expected this reversal, but I welcome i<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #ie8 #msie #msie8 #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>X-UA-Incompatible - miscoded - by Hallvord R. M. Steen</h1> <p>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:25:32 +0000</p> "The cost of being compatible is again placed on IE's competitors"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #msie #opera #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>The B-List: Legacy.</h1> <p>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:39:56 +0000</p> "it stands to reason, if Microsoft is bending over backwards to keep its bread-and-butter corporate customers happy, that the IE team would suddenly get backwards-compatibility fever."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #MSFT #msie #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>Sam Ruby: Best Standards Support</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:23:32 +0000</p> "Accordingly, I’ve implemented the following in my .htaccess file"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #MSFT #apache #ie8 #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>"There is no public standard that applies to this" site:msdn2.microsoft.com - Google Search</h1> <p>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:42:00 +0000</p> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #MSFT #html #standards #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>Appeasing the markup gods - Anne’s Weblog</h1> <p>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:24:53 +0000</p> "there may be a single U 002F SOLIDUS character. This character has no effect except to appease the markup gods."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #funny #standards #webdev #xhtml #xml</p> </article> <article> <h1>The XMLHttpRequest Object</h1> <p>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:44:29 +0000</p> "W3C Working Draft 05 April 2006"<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #ajax #standards #w3c #webdev</p> </article> <article> <h1>bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0</h1> <p>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:03:59 +0000</p> "UFO is a DOM script that detects and embeds Flash objects."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #code #dom #flash #javascript #standards #webdev</p> </article> </main></body></html>

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