Search Results: WebStandards

The World Wide Web Consortium unveils a modernized logo and updated tagline as part of a comprehensive rebranding strategy tied to new 2025-2028 objectives. This evolution reflects W3C's commitment to greater agility, broader stakeholder engagement, and sustainable web standards development for a changing digital landscape.

Web developer Bramus has exposed severe regression in viewport behavior on Safari 26 for iOS, worsening since his 2022 research. His push to include viewports in Interop2026 highlights critical gaps in cross-browser compatibility that threaten mobile web experiences.

The oEmbed specification remains foundational to seamless content embedding across the web, enabling platforms from WordPress to Slack to display rich third-party content without complex parsing. We dissect its mechanics, security implications, and why its discovery-first approach continues to shape web interoperability two decades after its inception.

The 'Safari is the new IE' debate misses the real issue: Safari's update model, tied directly to OS releases, creates a critical lag in real-world feature support. Unlike competitors that auto-update independently, this forces developers to wait years for crucial CSS and JavaScript features to reach sufficient iOS user penetration, fundamentally altering web development timelines.

The Ladybird browser engine notched critical wins in web compatibility, security, and performance last month, including HTTP/3 support, Trusted Types enforcement, and 120Hz rendering. These advancements edge the independent browser closer to challenging mainstream engines while showcasing its open-source momentum.

As modern web protocols evolve, the archaic design of HTTP form handling remains stubbornly entrenched. We examine why application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data are fraught with inconsistencies, inefficiencies, and implementation nightmares that continue to plague developers today.