IT and Software Standards

Cascading Style Sheets separate presentation from structure on the web. CSS Level 1 arrived in December 1996, proposed by Hakon...

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, developed by the American College of Radiology and the National Electrical...

ECMA-262 standardizes JavaScript, the language Brendan Eich wrote in ten days at Netscape in 1995. The 2015 edition, known as...

The fifth major revision of Hypertext Markup Language became a W3C Recommendation in October 2014, introducing native video and...

ISO/IEC 9899 defines the C programming language, first standardized by ANSI in 1989 and by ISO in 1990. Dennis Ritchie created C...

JavaScript Object Notation was described by Douglas Crockford around 2001 and standardized through ECMA-404 and the IETF. RFC...

The authorization framework behind sign in with buttons across the web. RFC 6749 replaced OAuth 1.0 with a simpler token flow...

Portable Document Format, created by Adobe in 1993, was standardized as ISO 32000 in 2008. The format preserves layout across...

The Portable Operating System Interface, standardized by IEEE and adopted by ISO and The Open Group. Born from the Unix wars of...

ISO/IEC 9075 standardizes the database query language developed at IBM by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce in the 1970s as...

Scalable Vector Graphics defines two dimensional graphics as XML markup, so an icon scales from a favicon to a billboard without...

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines define how to make web content usable by people with disabilities, organized under...

A binary instruction format executed at near native speed in a secure sandbox, standardized by the W3C in December 2019. It lets...

Web Authentication lets browsers log users in with public key credentials stored in security keys or platform authenticators...

Extensible Markup Language, a simplified subset of SGML, became a W3C Recommendation in February 1998. It became the default data...