WebPlatform.org (or WebPlatform) was a community-edited
documentation
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website spun off by
W3C. It sought to create a vendor-neutral online reference of
Web platform standards. The project was a collaboration among
Adobe Systems
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and headquartered in San Jose, California. It has historically specialized in software for the crea ...
,
Apple Inc.,
Facebook,
Google,
HP,
Microsoft,
Mozilla,
Nokia,
Opera Software, and
W3C, who were called "stewards" of the WebPlatform project.
Details
WebPlatform.org was an open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser, or platform. Anyone could contribute to the reference, by collaborating on the wiki documentation pages (WebPlatform Docs), sharing and commenting on the WebPlatform blog posts, and communicating through the
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
channel. WebPlatform Docs used
MediaWiki as its platform. The documentation contained sections titled Beginners Guide, General Web Concepts,
HTML,
CSS
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,
Accessibility
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,
JavaScript,
DOM,
API &
SVG, originally imported from resources maintained by the involved parties.
In September 2015, WebPlatform project was discontinued because "Stewards partnership agreement ended" and all its assets were "frozen" and archived.
New documentation can be found at
MDN Web Docs.
See also
*
Web platform
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Web Standards Project (WaSP)
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MDN Web Docs
References
External links
*
Web Platform Incubator Community Group(WICG) at
W3C
Web Incubator CGWeb Incubator Community Group (WICG)
World Wide Web Consortium
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