#web-standards

#web-standards

For 25 years, search engines like and Microsoft's Bing crawled and indexed websites, sending users to relevant pages. This drove traffic, supporting the web's grand bargain: sites let tech firms copy their data for free in exchange for referrals. Ads and subscriptions funded content creation, which in turn improved search results. In today's new AI era, products such as Google's AI Overviews and , OpenAI's , and Perplexity deliver answers directly, often eliminating the need to visit the original source.

Getting contrast right is one of the fastest ways to make your designs more accessible. Minimum contrast ratios according to WCAG are crucial for text and UI components.

Ladybird is an independent project to create a web browser with a new engine that is strictly based on web standards and will never include any monetization.