Web standards

These are links to standards and discussion documents at W3C. Most of my W3C links are on more specialised pages:

• XML - also for XSL and XPointer information.
• HTML.

See also

• IETF working groups on URIs, HTML and HTTP. URNs
• W3C discussion lists. Specifically www-html and www-jigsaw.
• W3C CSS and background information
• W3C work on metadata
• The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is described at W3C, which points to the original document from NCSA, and in A CGI Programmer's Reference. The CGI FAQ lives at WebȚing's FAQ collection.
• The Web is an example of a REST architecture. `REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, a phrase coined by RoyFielding in his dissertation attempting to describe the Web's architectural style in a rigorous enough fashion to make the principles both comprehensible and extensible. [...] In particular, REST suggests that what the Web got right is having a small, global set of verbs (HTTP's methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc) applied to a potentially infinite set of nouns (URIs - though we're careful to keep in mind that some VerbsCanAlsoBeNouns), because such a system allows a maximum number of otherwise uncoordinated actors to interoperate'