HTML is a standard dictated by browser vendors — not an independent body. That seems to be the message from the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), which last week announced ...

A Canadian company is claiming that a popular Web technology infringes on a patent it owns. The technology in question, Resource Description Framework, is based on Extensible Markup Language (XML) and ...

When is a standard not a standard? Technology users are pondering that conundrum more and more as the industry moves to technology standards. Most are administered by a standards body, such as the ...

Google has said that it wants to bring the benefits of its AMP specification to sites that stick with Web standards, offering them the same prominent search positioning that it currently only gives to ...

In a blog post today, Google is announcing that it’s formally embarking on a project to convince the group in charge of web standards to adopt technology inspired by its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) ...