The standard of the Web are a whole of technologies and protocols used on the Web defined by W3C in the form of Recommandation S.

The task of proposal, definition and of acceptance of new standards of the Web (or improvement of already existing standards) is entrusted to the W3C.

Certain standards, like the Dublin Core, can be developed by specific initiatives (DCMI in the case of Dublin Core).

Examples of standards of the Web

• HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language )

• XHTML ( Extensible Hypertext Markup Language )
• XML ( Extensible Markup Language )
• CS ( Cascading Stylesheets )
• RDF ( Resource Description Framework )
• SVG ( Scalable Vector Graphics )
• png ( Portable Network Graphics )
• SMIL ( Multi-media Synchronized Integration Language )
• URI ( Uniform Resource To identify )
• WAI ( Web Accessibility Initiative )
• HTTP ( Hypertext Transfer Protocol )
• DOM ( Document Object Model )

See too

• Standards on the metadata

External bonds

• Official site of the W3C