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Friday, July 20th, 2012
In an email to the WHATWG mailing list Ian Hickson explained how the relationship between the WHATWG and W3C effort around HTML has evolved. It is recommended reading if you want to know the details.
In summary, we will remain focused on improving HTML and related technologies to address the needs of users, developers, and user agents. The W3C HTML WG has decided to focus on producing a snapshot: HTML5. We anticipate the net effect to be accelerated development of the HTML Living Standard.
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
A new release of the Validator.nu HTML Parser is available. The new version 1.4 contains minor adjustments to spec compliance and fixes for notable Java-specific problems (of the crash and infinite loop sort). Also, the parser is again available from the Maven Central Repository (groupId: nu.validator.htmlparser, artifactId: htmlparser, version: 1.4).
Upgrading to the newest version is recommended for all users of all previous versions.
Changelog:
- No longer crashes in
setErrorHandler() in the DOM case.
- No longer crashes with
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the meta prescan.
- Correctness tweaks to HTML integration point and MathML text integration point behavior.
- Slight adjustments to error and warning reporting.
- The XLink namespace is now serialized more nicely.
- Unicode decoder returning zero-length output in the middle of the file is now dealt with correctly.
- No longer goes to infinite loop with the HotSpot workaround applied.
- Builds again with Maven.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
The WHATWG now has a patent policy, the WHATCG. We will keep using the same mailing list, the same IRC channel, the same web sites, but now sometimes we will publish through the WHATCG as well for patent policy purposes per the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement.
If you could previously not join the WHATWG because no patent policy was in place, now is the time to reconsider. If you are unsure how this applies to you, then it most likely does not.
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
(This is a cross-post from the mailing list, reformatted as HTML.)
Since February, I've been working on writing a detailed specification for browser editing, primarily the document.execCommand() and document.queryCommand*() methods. These were created by Microsoft in the 1990s and were subsequently adopted in some form by all other browsers, and today browsers have to implement them to be compatible with web content, but no detailed specification ever existed. Interoperability is practically nonexistent as a result, which has
driven all major content editing frameworks away from using execCommand(). (For instance, I began typing this in WordPress' WYSIWYG editor, which uses TinyMCE – a major editor that avoids execCommand() entirely.) Hopefully we can start to fix that and make these APIs a part of the web platform that just works.
The current version of the specification is about fifty pages printed, and supersedes the Editing APIs section of HTML (which is more like two pages). In the style of modern web specs, it
is phrased in terms of algorithms that attempt to cover all corner cases unambiguously and leave no behavior undefined, and it tries to match the behavior of existing browsers to the greatest extent possible. At this point, it's stable and complete enough that I believe it's ready for serious review by implementers, and I would like as much detailed feedback as possible.
There is a basically complete JavaScript implementation, which is used to produce expected results for a largely undocumented and entirely ad hoc test suite. I used the tests as an aid to writing the spec, and they probably aren't well suited to aid implementers in implementing it. I will probably get around to porting them to something like testharness.js at some point. I haven't tried testing my implementation on real-world sites, only on artificial input, so I don't know at this point how implementable it really is, but the JS implementation means that it at least has large parts that make sense.
Anyone reviewing the spec should be advised that I put extensive rationale in HTML comments. If you want to know why the spec says what it does, check the HTML source. I plan to change this to use <details> or such in the near future. There are lots of minor known issues still left, but none that I thought was important enough that it needs to delay review. Feedback can be sent to the whatwg list, CCing me, with [editing] in the subject. (I'm also fine receiving feedback on public-html or public-webapps, but I don't know if the chairs would be okay with that, since it's off-topic.) I should be available to respond to all feedback promptly at least through the end of August. After that, I can't make specific guarantees about my availability, but I do plan to continue maintaining the spec in the long term.
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
Next week Wednesday, August 3, the W3C HTML5 Last Call review period ends. Consider taking another look and giving some feedback!
Here is a quick rundown of what happened last week:
- The proposed
download attribute made it into the HTML specification. Specify it on an a element to force the referenced resource to be downloaded rather than navigated towards.
- The WebApps WG published a first draft of The From-Origin Header. It allows resources to declare they are unavailable within an embedding context. E.g. to prevent bandwidth leeching.
- The DOM Core draft now defines the
NodeIterator and TreeWalker features: Traversal chapter in DOM Core. These features have existed for ages, but details were not defined thus far.
- In a quest to define
window.find() Ian suggests that maybe it ought to be dropped. If you need it, speak up!
- In the light of a small vulnerability with allowing the
base element in the body element, we are taking another look at it. Because well, all your base are belong to us.
Since the summer causes a slowdown of everything standards, the next WHATWG Weekly is in two weeks.
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