HTML 5

This week the HTML specification gained four new methods and also lost some weight due to higher quality “competing” proposals for editing related APIs. registerProtocolHandler() and registerContentHandler() gained four complementary methods. isProtocolHandlerRegistered() and isContentHandlerRegistered() to determine whether the user is already using the site in question to handle the specified scheme or media type, and [...]

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WHATWG Weekly is somewhat irregularly updated as its writer has a somewhat chaotic vacation schedule. The specification meanwhile keeps getting refined, with the latest significant change being a security update to registerProtocolHandler() and registerContentHandler(). These methods provide better platform integration, by letting web pages become responsible for handling e.g. mailto or irc URLs. This security [...]

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WHATWG Weekly has been on a little summer break. Since we were gone over hundred changes were made to the HTML specification, the W3C HTML5 Last Call period is over, and Maciej solicited input on HTML.next. The changes made to the HTML specifications have been in response to Last Call comments, making clarifications, fixing typos, [...]

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