CSS getting additional line style options for text, including spelling and grammar errors
The W3C has proposed new ways to decorate lines that will allow web developers and designers to control the thickness and offset of lines. They are also introducing spelling and grammar error line properties.
Google removes support for crawl-delay, nofollow, and noindex rules in robots.txt
In an attempt to reestablish robots.txt best practices and provide an extensible architecture to crawlers, Google removes well-known rules and recommends webmasters use alternative methods to accomplish similar results.
Google and others update and submit Robots Exclusion Protocol to create new standard
25 years after the Robots Exclusion Protocol was created by Martijn Koster, Google has teamed up with its creator to address edge cases and to have robots.txt formalized as an international standard.
WP Engine expands WordPress hosting customer base with acquisition of Flywheel
The acquisition of Flywheel will add 28,000 more customers and additional developer tools like 'Local' to WP Engine's rapidly expanding business.
WP Engine releases DevKit app for local WordPress development and deployment
DevKit enables web developers to iterate more quickly by running their site on a local environment and then making it easy to deploy to a live development, staging, or production environment on WP Engine.
W3C relinquishes control of HTML standards to WHATWG
After W3C and WHATWG parted ways in 2018, they've now agreed to a single HTML and DOM standard that will be managed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
