HTML 5

Welcome to my last WHATWG Weekly report. The week was relatively quiet. Most of the activity centered around the Last Call for HTML5 and other documents at the W3C. In the WHATWG email list, Kenneth Russell make a request to use CORS for cross-domain image and video requests. CORS is Cross Origin Resource Sharing, and [...]

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In the WHATWG email lists: In April, Kyle Huey proposed a canvas.toBlob function, and Ian Hickson added the feature this week (HTML5 Tracker item for change). Jer Noble posted a note providing feedback on Mozilla’s Full Screen API based on Webkit’s implementation of the functionality. This triggered a lively and fairly extended discussion. Aryeh Gregor [...]

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The WHATWG email list seeming rather quiet this last week. José Lucas Teixeira de Oliveira brought up the idea of an active menu—associating a nav element with an article in some way. Ian Hickson caught up with correspondence from last December and January. One of the items concerned the selectionDirection property and especially what the [...]

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I’ll be ending my stint at the Weekly Review on May 23rd. Hopefully in that time, we’ll see a lot of activity. Simon Heckmann provided a proposal for an application descriptor that triggered a good discussion in the WHATWG email list. Check out the HTML version of his proposal. Related to the app descriptor proposal, [...]

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