HTML 5

We are still looking for a volunteer to write WHATWG Weekly. Otherwise on March 21 and beyond there will not be much to see here. Well, no new WHATWG Weekly. Big thanks, security model, and editing We got a big thanks from people at the BBC. Though reading Frame accurate video in HTML5 it seems [...]

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WHATWG Weekly will go on vacation for three months three weeks from now. However, you can stop that by joining IRC and offering to write it instead. You will be given at least one Internet for each post. Shorts from the WHATWG mailing list David Flanagan pointed out that various event handlers are on the [...]

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Probably the most interesting proposal last week was an email by Silvia Pfeiffer on a Multitrack Media API. Specifically, how to synchronize media resources for the purposes of e.g. sign language and independent audio description tracks. Jeroen Wijering suggested this should be handled in a manifest, outside of HTML. Interesting implementation-wise, Emiliano Martinez Luque announced [...]

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Two weeks ago I reported that Philip Jägenstedt wrote a proposal to ignore the Content-Type header for video resources and last week that made it into the HTML standard. Video formats were already being sniffed if the Content-Type had an appropriate value. Now that process is simplified. The server-sent events feature was also simplified. 2xx [...]

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