Why W3C web standards? W3C publishes recommendations, that are considered web standards. W3C develops technical specifications according to the W3C Process, which is designed to maximize …

Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current …

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

HTTP Extension Framework An extension mechanism for HTTP designed to address the tension between private agreement and public specification and to accommodate extension of HTTP clients …

HTTP State Management Mechanism - Proposed Standard RFC 2109 This document specifies a way to create a stateful session with HTTP requests and responses. It describes two new headers, Cookie …

Oct 28, 2014 · The bulk of the text of this specification is also available in the WHATWG HTML Living Standard, under a license that permits reuse of the specification text. This document has been …

Oct 21, 2025 · The WCAG standard is created through the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Along with WCAG, WAI provides a range of supporting resources including WCAG Techniques, How …

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ is the current HTML standard. It obsoletes all other previously-published HTML specifications.

Apr 10, 2026 · Descriptions of all specifications under development by the W3C CSS working group.

Using Standard HTML The hypertext you write is stored (or, at least, sent over the Internet) in HTML language. Currently (1991-1997) some people write the HTML code themselves while others use …