HTML 5

A relatively quiet week this week. Ian Hickson modified pushState to match the Firefox 4 implementation. More on this in the WHATWG email list. Nicholas Zakas brought up a question on the scoped attribute of the style element, when the element is placed in an area expecting flow content. This triggered an interesting discussion about [...]

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First thing’s first. Hi my name is Liam Hockley, I am a recent addition to the admin team on the WHATWG forums and I have been working on improving the site over the past couple of weeks. (forums.whatwg.org) The first thing I did, was update the forum software from the severely outdated phpBB2, to the [...]

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Hello folks, and welcome to my first WHATWG Weekly. In case you’re wondering where Anne van Kesteren is, you can follow his adventures for the next three months at Anne, Tom, and Peter’s Trip Weblog. Last time I looked, the gang is in Colombia. And there was something about beer. peerConnection, <device>, and video conferencing [...]

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This is my last WHATWG Weekly for a while. Shelley Powers will take over starting next week. Meanwhile my friend (and colleague these days) Karl Dubost has started writing similar summaries for the W3C Blog: Open Web Platform Weekly Summary. Hopefully this is just the beginning. EventSource, Workers, and Progress Events The W3C WebApps Working [...]

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There is now a new release of the Validator.nu HTML Parser. The new release contains files that were missing from the previous release package by accident. It also contains one tree builder correctness fix and one error reporting improvement.

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Thanks to Ben Schwarz the WHATWG now hosts an edition of the HTML standard specifically tailored for web developers: HTML5 for Web Developers. It is identical to the HTML standard, but information specific to implementors and not relevant to web developers has been removed. It also uses some CSS to make it look pretty. We [...]

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Much sleep has not been had, so if you read something silly, it might just be me. There’s good news too, Shelley Powers volunteered to start writing the WHATWG Weekly starting March 21. Her main interest is HTML, so you might need to pester her on twitter (@shelleypowers) or email (shelleyp@burningbird.net) to get other things [...]

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