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HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know—Part 1

Learning the fundamentals of the World Wide Web is crucial, especially if you are planning to build web apps. And HTTP is at the heart of any web application you could build. HTTP stands for...

HTTP Semantics

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document describes the overall architecture of HTTP, establishes common terminology, and defines aspects of the protocol that are shared by all versions. In this definition are core protocol elements, extensibility mechanisms, and the "http" and "https" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes. This document updates RFC 3864 and obsoletes RFCs 2818, 7231, 7232, 7233, 7235, 7538, 7615, 7694, and portions of 7230.

How HTTP/2 Works and How to Enable It in Go

HTTP/2 solves head-of-line blocking at the application layer by multiplexing multiple streams over a single TCP connection. While HTTP/1.1 requires requests to be processed sequentially, HTTP/2 allows parallel processing through independent streams, each with its own ID. The Go standard library supports HTTP/2 out of the box when using HTTPS, and with some configuration, it can work over plain HTTP too

web browser

A web browser is a client program for accessing the World Wide Web. Its main feature is the loading of HTML pages over HTTP(S) connections and rendering them. There are moderate-sized web browsers as well as huge and bloated ones.

Some notes about HTTP/3

HTTP/3 is going to be standardized. As an old protocol guy, I thought I'd write up some comments. Google (pbuh) has both the most popular ...

Who Shapes Web Standards? Uncovering the Main Topics of Interest in the W3C

The Group That Rules the Web

Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet very few of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web” and what isn’t.

The HotJava Browser: A White Paper

Browsers allow people to treat the data spread across the Internet as a cohesive whole. Web browsers integrate the function of fetching the data with figuring out what it is and displaying it. One of the most important file types browsers understand is the hypertext markup language (HTML). HTML allows text data objects to embed simple formatting information and references to other objects.

Putting the Web back in the Web of Things

We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. I this blog post I provide a deep-dive retrospective into the last 10+ years of standardisation, how the Web of Things is being used today, and what I believe it is sti

Do Websites Need to Function Exactly the Same on Every Platform?

While we’ve accepted that websites don't need to look the same everywhere, we seem to be stuck on a new hurdle: the idea that websites need to function the same everywhere.

Close to the metal: web design and the browser

Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and modern backend systems; when at the end of the day, browsers still only need static HTML content to interpret.

Downloading Web Pages | Web Browser Engineering

A web browser displays information identified by a URL. And the first step is to use that URL to connect to and download information from a server somewhere on the internet.

is it standard.site?

Validate a webpage's standard.site AT Protocol records, from the page to the PDS to the .well-known endpoint.

The Website Specification

A platform-agnostic, full specification of the technical features a good website should have. Built in the open under an MIT licence.