{{Short description|Small image used on websites}} {{Use British English |date=February 2024}} {{Use dmy dates |date=February 2024}} {{More citations needed |date=February 2024}} {{multiple image | direction = horizontal | width = 88 | footer = The two 88 × 31 px Web badges at the bottom of all Wikipedia pages | image1 = A Wikimedia project.svg | alt1 = A Wikimedia project Web badge | image2 = MediaWiki-2020-button.svg | alt2 = Powered by MediaWiki Web badge | caption1 = | caption2 = }} {{multiple image | direction = vertical | width = 80 | footer = Various web badges (80 × 15 px) | image1 = CC BY-NC-SA icon 80x15.png | alt1 = Web badge promoting the CC BY-NC-SA license | caption1 = | image2 = Web_wikipedia_02.png | alt2 = Web badge promoting Wikipedia | caption2 = }} '''Web badges''', '''buttons''' or '''stickers''' are small images on web pages, typically part of the footer. They can be used for promotion, stating compliance with web standards or to comply with an application's terms of service.<ref name="hal11" /> They are sometimes referred to as '''88x31''' or '''80x15''', common image resolutions for web buttons.
These were first popularized as "Best viewed in..." buttons by Netscape and Microsoft during the browser wars of the late 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=eighty eight by thirty one |url=http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2022/88x31.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990129040545/http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2022/88x31.html |archive-date=1999-01-29 |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=www.geocities.com}}</ref> They have seen a resurgence<ref>{{Cite web |title=web_revival [MelonLand Wiki] |url=https://wiki.melonland.net/web_revival |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=wiki.melonland.net}}</ref> in the early 2020s through websites like Neocities. There are now [https://neonaut.neocities.org/cyber/88x31 large collections] of buttons linking to personal websites that serve as modern takes on old web culture.
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<ref name="hal11">{{cite journal |title=A Genealogy of Badges |first=Alexander M.C. |last=Halavais |journal=Information, Communication & Society |volume=15 |number=3 |date=April 2012 |pages=354–373 |issn=1468-4462 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |doi=10.1080/1369118X.2011.641992 |url=https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/waysofbeing/data/data-crone-halavais-2012.pdf |access-date=2024-02-11 }}</ref>
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