HTML 5

Philip Jägenstedt provided feedback on WebVTT based on a meeting between various browsers at the Open Video Conference. Tyler Close raised two security issues with registerProtocolHandler(). This is the WHATWG Weekly. Changes to HTML Since revision 6596 the specification defines handling of multipart/x-mixed-replace resources. A rather peculiar MIME type that allows progressively updating of content. [...]

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In commit 6559 CanvasPixelArray was destroyed in favor of Uint8ClampedArray from the Typed Arrays specification. DOM Core is now known as DOM4. Welcome to another WHATWG Weekly. Web Intents On the mailing list of the W3C WebApps WG James Hawkins with Google proposed that the group takes on the work of standardizing Web Intents. Web [...]

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Just a few quick bullet points this week: Specifications now use event constructors rather than init*Event() methods. See revision 6551 for details. Adrian Bateman announced on the WebApps WG mailing list that Microsoft has contributed tests for the WebSocket API, Web Workers, and the Indexed Database API. The W3C published a Last Call of Touch [...]

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And again the HTML standard was trimmed some more. This time the parsing APIs (innerHTML and friends) were taken out and integrated into DOM Parsing and Serialization. The upside of this is that the APIs now apply more generically and can also be used with MathML and SVG (well, once implementors adopt the changes). W3C [...]

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