HTML 5

Happy new year everyone! We made great progress in standardizing the platform in 2011 and plan to continue doing just that with your help. You can join our mailing list to discuss issues with web development or join IRC if you prefer more lively interaction. I will be taking the remainder of the month off [...]

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You might have missed this. Because of this lengthy thread on throwing for atob() space characters will no longer cause the method to throw from revision>6874 onwards. This is the WHATWG Weekly, with some standards related updates just before the world slacks off to feast and watch reindeer on Google Earth. Shadow DOM Dimitri Glazkov [...]

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James Hawkins proposed the intent element in a way that brings back memories of HTML4. Happy to be reminded we are over SGML now. This is the WHATWG Weekly. Better autocomplete Overnight a complete proposal for better autocomplete appeared on the WHATWG Wiki, apparently already experimentally implemented in Chrome (prefixed). It proposes a new autocompletetype [...]

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If you want to contribute to the WHATWG Blog or Wiki, join IRC (#whatwg on Freenode). We had to shut down user registration unfortunately due to excessive spam. Welcome to another WHATWG Weekly. If it were themed, this would be about Sinterklaas. Encoding problem In response to Faruk Ateş’ plea for defaulting to UTF-8, David [...]

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Next to @WHATWG, we now have +WHATWG. Hopefully ⸮WHATWG is next. Not to dispair, WHATWG Weekly will remain right here, without funny characters preceding it. HTML is big, so follow what interests you! Ian Hickson announced a new system on the mailing list that allows people to subscribe to specific sub-topics in the HTML specification, [...]

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You can now put a fullscreen in your fullscreen. Brought to you by Fullscreen. This is the WHATWG Weekly, not quite weekly, but you are still welcome. <time> police Revision 6827 introduced the new time element. The one that also allows for years, yearless dates, durations, and so on. It is based on extensive research [...]

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A long week Filled with people and meetings WHATWG Weekly Last week the W3C held its yearly TPAC conference. See Unorganization for an impression of the event written by me. Karl wrote down some technical details. What follows is my brief technical takeaway. <time> and again The time element comes back and its new design [...]

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Revision 6695 made HTML attribute values match in a case-sensitive manner as far as Selectors are concerned. This approach was favored over having a hardcoded list of HTML attributes whose values had to be matched case-insensitively. Revision 6701 removed selectedOptions from the input element, a vestige from the Web Forms 2.0 era. Welcome to the [...]

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Should we introduce an isWhiteSpace attribute for Text nodes, and if we do, what would you use it for? Anyway, WHATWG Weekly, brief one this week. Fullscreen The big news last week was renewed activity on Gecko:FullScreenAPI, a proposal by Robert O’Callahan to make fullscreen work for the platform. Yours truly made an initial attempt [...]

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Simon Pieters posted SRT timestamp research. Ryosuke Niwa updated his UndoManager and DOM Transaction proposal. This is the WHATWG Weekly. HTML standard In revision 6657 Ian Hickson removed the text/html-sandboxed MIME type from the HTML standard. The goal of the MIME type was to allow untrusted content to be hosted on the same origin as [...]

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