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Relationship update on HTML Living Standard and W3C HTML5 20 Jul 2012 | 04:03 pm
In an email to the WHATWG mailing list Ian Hickson explained how the relationship between the WHATWG and W3C effort around HTML has evolved. It is recommended reading if you want to know the details. ...
Validator.nu HTML Parser 1.4 Available 8 Jun 2012 | 09:14 pm
A new release of the Validator.nu HTML Parser is available. The new version 1.4 contains minor adjustments to spec compliance and fixes for notable Java-specific problems (of the crash and infinite lo...
The Future of the Web: My Vision (May 23, 2012) 24 May 2012 | 08:48 am
I apologize for the longer than expected wait for this article, but now, we may continue. The article below will pick up where Part 1 left off. Article 1: Websites and Sectioning Part 2: Styling <w...
The Future of the Web: My Vision (May 1, 2012) 2 May 2012 | 06:15 am
Like probably many others who read this blog, I am a web design enthusiast, web standards advocate, and web designer by trade. I have been working with HTML since the early 2000s, and have enjoyed it ...
Patent Policy 24 Apr 2012 | 07:03 pm
The WHATWG now has a patent policy, the WHATCG. We will keep using the same mailing list, the same IRC channel, the same web sites, but now sometimes we will publish through the WHATCG as well for pat...
WHATWG Weekly: Fullscreen dialog 12 Apr 2012 | 01:53 am
Ian Hickson made a proposal to unify Web Intents with registerProtocolHandler() and registerContentHandler(). The Encoding Standard now has all its decoders defined. This is the WHATWG Weekly. The bi...
WHATWG Weekly: HTML canvas version 5 has arrived 30 Mar 2012 | 03:20 am
The StringEncoding proposal is getting closer to consensus. It now consists of a TextEncoder and a TextDecoder object that can be used both for streaming and non-streaming use cases. This is the WHATW...
WHATWG Weekly: Path objects for canvas and creating paths through SVG syntax 15 Mar 2012 | 12:09 am
Jonas Sicking proposed an API for decoding ArrayBuffer objects as strings, and encoding strings as ArrayBuffer objects. The thread also touched on a proposal mentioned here earlier, StringEncoding. Th...
WHATWG Weekly: http+aes URL scheme, control Referer, … 8 Mar 2012 | 01:42 am
Apple's Safari team provided feedback to the Web Notifications Working Group. That group, incidentally, is looking for an active editor to address that and other feedback. Opera Mobile shipped with We...
WHATWG Weekly: New canvas API goodies 1 Mar 2012 | 06:01 am
A draft for the SPDY protocol has been submitted, the W3C HTML WG mailing list goes crazy over media DRM. This is the WHATWG Weekly. In response to feedback Adam Barth changed the getRandomValues() m...
