Acid2, a complex web-browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly, was announced two years ago on ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, CNET News.com. Published by the Web Standards Project ...

COMMENTARY--The ubiquity of today's Internet-based computing infrastructure has taught us that standards are good. But, as you may recall from childhood sugar hangovers the day after Halloween, too ...

With its second I9 preview release, Microsoft tries to bring developers a more standardized Web. But can you make an omelet without breaking eggs? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Earlier this year, a group of climate scientists were outraged about a Wall Street Journal editorial. In an earlier era, they might have written a letter to the editor, or meekly submitted their ...

The purpose of the Web Standards is to identify and define the standards, guidelines, processes, and best practices associated with the design, development, hosting, maintenance, and stewardship of ...

In the early 1990s, the creators of Netscape apparently built a function that enabled each web page to be annotated by those visiting it, as a way for viewers to discuss the page's content. But ...

Would researchers scrawl notes, critiques and comments across online research papers if software made the annotation easy for them? Dan Whaley, founder of the non-profit organization Hypothes.is, ...