WebPlatform.org (or WebPlatform) was a community-edited

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website spun off by

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. It sought to create a vendor-neutral online reference of

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standards. The project was a collaboration among

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Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. I ...

, HP,

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, and

, who were called "stewards" of the WebPlatform project.

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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 Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called ''channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat an ...

(IRC) channel. WebPlatform Docs used

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as its platform. The documentation contained sections titled Beginners Guide, General Web Concepts,

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, CSS,

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, DOM,

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& 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

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Web Platform Incubator Community Group
(WICG) at

Web Incubator CG
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