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    | WHATWG
    The WHATWG's living standards incorporate new features on an ongoing basis. The default process is to propose an idea on the relevant standard's issue tracker, hash out the details and gather implementer interest, and then work together with the editors to land a pull request. However, we've found t [...]
    | WHATWG
    Welcome to the newest standard maintained by the WHATWG: the URL Pattern Standard! The URL Pattern Standard gives a generic pattern syntax for matching URLs, and extracting the parts from them. It is inspired by the path-to-regexp library, although it extends beyond paths to encompass all the parts [...]
    | WHATWG
    In the last year or so, my main task was to tackle some of the "specification technical debt" that had been accumulating over a few years, specifically at the crossroads of Fetch, performance APIs, and the HTML Standard. Monkey patching and hand waving When starting this work, the behaviors of some [...]
    | Microformats
    A (very) belated follow up to Getting Started with Microformats 2, covering the basics of consuming and using microformats 2 data. Originally posted on waterpigs.co.uk. More and more people are using microformats 2 to mark up profiles, posts, events and other data on their personal sites, enabling d [...]
    | WHATWG
    The last time we introduced a new Living Standard was Infra, in 2016. This year has seen a flurry of activity, with four new standards joining the WHATWG! The Web IDL Standard defines the interface language and JavaScript mapping for all web platform APIs. It migrated to the WHATWG from its old loca [...]
    | Schema.org
    Schema.org was announced ten years ago this week! Without getting all emotional, this feels like an appropriate moment to thank everyone who has contributed to this effort in any way – from publishers, technologists and standards experts to those who build applications that use the markup, or who wo [...]
    | WHATWG
    In form submissions, form values containing newlines get normalized to CRLF. But that newline normalization runs deeper than might be thought. Here is a deep dive on the recent spec changes on that area.
    | Schema.org
    Announcing preview availability of validator.schema.org for review and feedback. As agreed last year, Schema.org is the new home for the structured data validator previously known as the Structured Data Testing Tool (SDTT). It is now simpler to use, and available for testing. Schema.org will integra [...]
    | Schema.org
    The world’s attention has turned to healthcare this year, with many initiatives exploring the use of open data and standards. Schema.org has made a number of efforts already to contribute to the global Coronavirus response, including the creation of SpecialAnnouncement markup, improvements around ev [...]
    | Schema.org
    The COVID-19 pandemic requires various medical and government authorities to aggregate data about available resources from a wide range of medical facilities. Clearly standard schemas for this structured data can be very useful. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S. defined a set of data [...]
    | Microformats
    In microformats.org year 14, we welcome new admins: Aaron Parecki, Gregor Morrill, Martijn van der Ven, and Sven Knebel! All have been active for years, helping welcome new members and doing essential wiki gardening & microformats2 parser updates! Originally posted at: tantek.com
    | Microformats
    With more use of microformats2, especially among the growing indieweb network of websites, we’ve iterated key specs for real-world needs and are seeing more active community members. More updates & posts coming up! Originally posted on tantek.com.
    | Microformats
    During the past year, the popular php-mf2 microformats parser has received quite a few improvements. My site runs ProcessWire and one of the plugins for it uses php-mf2, so I have been spending some time on it. My own experience with microformats started when I discovered the hCard microformat. I wa [...]
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