This is the second public draft of the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG's) 1.0 and its accompanying documents.

The following changes have been made since v1.0-D1:

Additions:

• Added Glossary term for ESG to tie into our principles. (@timfrick)
• [#1] Section 3.21 now has a Success Criteria on "Static Sites". (@arnaudlevy)
• [#4] Quick Reference & PDF Checklist of WSG's has been published. (@AlexDawsonUK & @gagarine)
• [#5],[#6] Section 1.2.1 Principles has been given additional context. (@Emily-Trotter & @gagarine)
• [#9] Abstract now contains advice on "How to use the guidelines / document". (@TzviyaSiegman)
• [#20] JSON API for for third-party implementations has been published. (@AlexDawsonUK & @timfrick)
• [#37] New Success Criteria and content within "Conducting Research" & "Early Ideation". (@joshkimux)
• [#40] Section 3.8 has a New Success Criteria on "Optional Features". (@j9t)

Updates:

• Updated the Section 5.8 guidance about onboarding and green-by-default. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Section 2.19 clarified to include PDF and application based documents. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• [#23] Conformance Notes have been rewritten to be more explicit and helpful. (@airbr)
• [#30] Section 3.6 clarified to include code abstraction concepts. (@marie-ototoi)
• [#38] Section 3.13 has been rewritten to include fixes and new content. (@thibaudcolas)

Fixes:

• Fixed a cross referencing issue to the functional unit. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Fixed cross referencing issues within the at-a-glance document. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Fixed a small URL encoding error present upon validation. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Fixed some case and character issues with the WSG's content. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Guideline 4.7 name has been tweaked to be clearer on it's intent. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Numerous grammatical fixes applied to the at-a-glance document. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Resolved a missing abbreviation for Virtual Machines. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Resolved some missing international language references. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• Links that resolved behind a paywall have been replaced. (@CristellaH)
• Updated all WAI WCAG references to the new 2.2 W3C Recommendation. (@AlexDawsonUK)
• [#3],[#15] 269 Spelling & Grammar fixes have been applied. (@AlexDawsonUK, @mgifford & @yuna-orsini)
• [#8] Resolved the W3C reserved term usage. (@ianbjacobs)
• [#17],[#24] Clarified "Use Edge Computing" to "Consider CDN's And Edge Caching". (@airbr & @fershad)
• [#18] Small displays suffered a text overflow issue with our spec title. (@airbr)
• [#25] Broken links and redirects have been resolved or removed. (@JamesChristie-SustainableUX)
• [#26] PDF's or multimedia where applicable are identified as such. (@JamesChristie-SustainableUX)
• [#26] Short text descriptions have been added to numbered links. (@JamesChristie-SustainableUX)
• [#26] Visited links now have a color change indicated. (@JamesChristie-SustainableUX)
• [#37] Dark patterns now also refer to deceptive design. (@joshkimux)
• [#39] Title case inconsistencies within TOC have been resolved. (@j9t)

Note:

• Unresolved issues haven't been forgotten! They will be progressed in a future draft.
• If you spot any new bugs, or have new content or ideas to include, submit an issue.

Editorial work for the above was handled by @AlexDawsonUK and @timfrick.