An "origin" as defined by web standards and implemented by the major browser engines today anchors user trust decisions in the originating website publisher information, and delivered via...
Special-Use Domain Names
This document describes what it means to say that a Domain Name (DNS name) is reserved for special use, when reserving such a name is appropriate, and the procedure for doing so. It establishes an IANA registry for such domain names, and seeds it with entries for some of the already established special domain names.
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!
Chris Granger - "Is Web3... anything?"
The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that lack of focus isn’t exactly surprising. Almost by definition it’s going to end up being different things to different people.
Isolated Web Apps · Issue #799 · mozilla/standards-positions
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification Title: Isolated Web Apps Specification or proposal URL (if available): Explainer URL (if available): https://github.com/W...
The Website vs. Web App Dichotomy Doesn't Exist | jakelazaroff.com
A one-dimensional spectrum can't sufficiently capture the tradeoffs involved in web development.
Theming atproto · blog.damato.design
Taking Mise en Mode into the new web standard
Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending
European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces. We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist. Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web. And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!
Web Platform Design Principles
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On forking the Web
This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.
Subdomain Gateway Specification
Defines how HTTP Gateway can implement support for HTTP Host headers to enable isolated website hosting based on root CID-derived Origins. This ensures compatibility with native ipfs:// and ipns:// URIs, and aligns with the existing Same-origin security model in web browsers, including relative URL pathing and permission scopes of Web APIs.
Dweb: Serving the Web from the Browser with Beaker – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Publishing and sharing is core to the Web’s ethos, yet to publish your own website or even just share a document, you need to know how to run a server, ...
Homepage - Contract for the Web
A global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone.
The same-origin paradigm has unfortunately become a local maxima of the web. I'd argue the capture of the internet's search, social spaces, and data lock-in, as well as the lack of open protocols counter this capture can be directly attributed to building on top of the same-origin paradigm.
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Thinking about atproto as an identity and data *substrate* of the web. RSS couldn't go all the way because it built within the boundaries of the same-origin paradigm, just like the closed platforms that ended up enclosing most of the web.
