HTML 5

For a brief period today, there were no outstanding e-mails or bugs on the specs, and so I took that opportunity to transition us here at the WHATWG to the next stage of HTML5’s development: Last Call! This affects three specs at the WHATWG:

HTML5
Web Workers
Microdata vocabularies

There’s also a version of the spec [...]

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Topics this week include microdata, video and audio, and spec licensing.

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Topics this week include microdata, events, and document.head.

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Over the past few weeks, Google has been preparing and then running a usability study to test the microdata feature of HTML5.
Methodology
We first created three different variants based on the original microdata proposal:

One based on what the spec said (documentation)
One trying to put types in an explicit itemtype=”" attribute and moving “about” to [...]

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