HTML 5

(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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The bits of HTML the W3C is publishing as HTML5 are getting ever more stable. Ian Hickson continued addressing feedback throughout last week. There are still some three hundred odd bugs outstanding, but mostly these are relatively minor problems. This does not mean that major changes might not happen of course. One discussion currently ongoing [...]

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The debate on what to do with mutation events is still ongoing, Web IDL and the WebSocket protocol are heading towards Last Call, HTML5 still is in Last Call, and Karl is still providing an alternative view on things in the Open Web Platform Weekly Summary. Changes to the specification While the W3C is still [...]

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Last week in standards world was about a component model for the web and mutation events, mostly. As a reminder, there is also the Open Web Platform Weekly Summary written by Karl. Changes to the specification There were only two changes this week. In response to feedback the way audioTracks and videoTracks (media captioning features) [...]

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