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Showing 7 reports across 6 families, filtered by title or shortname containing the string 'principles'.

Web Architecture

Web Platform Design Principles

Note
- history

Web Application Privacy

Privacy Principles

Statement
- history
Tags
Privacy

Ethics for the Web

Ethical Web Principles

Statement
- history
Translation for Ethical Web Principles
中文（简体）

Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning

Draft Note
- history

HTML

HTML Design Principles

Draft Standard
- history
Tags
HTML

Device Independence

Device Independence Principles

Note
- history

XLink

XML Linking Language (XLink) Design Principles

Note
- history
Tags
XML