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This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.
This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.


Per the [https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html Memorandum of Understanding between W3C and WHATWG], everything is pretty much cleared up.


== Confusion Mitigated ==
== Confusion mitigated ==


* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** The following HTML forks redirect:
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html50/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/
*** http://w3c.github.io/html/
** The following TR URLs of HTML subsets redirect:
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
** The following ED URLs of HTML subsets redirect:
*** https://w3c.github.io/webmessaging/
*** https://w3c.github.io/websockets/
*** https://w3c.github.io/eventsource/
*** https://w3c.github.io/2dcontext/
*** https://w3c.github.io/microdata/
*** https://w3c.github.io/webstorage/
*** https://w3c.github.io/workers/
* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/ redirects
** https://www.w3.org/TR/dom40/ redirects
** https://www.w3.org/TR/dom41/ redirects
** https://w3c.github.io/dom/ redirects
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/ redirects
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ redirects
* Fullscreen: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/
* Fullscreen: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/ is empty of content
** Status: discontinued as a NOTE. ED URL (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/fullscreen/raw-file/tip/Overview.html) redirects
** http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/fullscreen/raw-file/tip/Overview.html redirects
* Streams: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/ is empty of content
** http://w3c.github.io/streams-api/ redirects
* Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/ redirects
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ is empty of content
** http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/ is empty of content
** https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/ redirects
** https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html redirects
* URL: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ is empty of content
** https://www.w3.org/TR/url-1/ is empty of content
** https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ is empty of content
** http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html redirects


== Confusion Somewhat Mitigated ==
== Non-forks ==


* URL: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
Some work started out in W3C Working Groups or Community Groups but has since moved to the WHATWG. This section tracks what happened in those cases.
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ plus various aliases and older versions
** Status: has a reasonable red disclaimer, but still exists.
** Also, https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ exists without the disclaimer.
* Streams: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
** Status: mostly gutted, with a reasonable red disclaimer.
 
== Confusion Persists ==


* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
* Worklets: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/worklets.html
** Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** https://www.w3.org/TR/worklets-1/ redirects to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ (maybe should redirect to above URL instead)
** Status: still exists as an outdated specification with no warning, causing confusion.
** https://www.w3.org/TR/worklets/ redirects to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ (maybe should redirect to above URL instead)
* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** https://drafts.css-houdini.org/worklets/ redirects to above URL
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/
* Custom Elements: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. And has a weird rename ("DOM4") too.
** https://www.w3.org/TR/custom-elements/ is empty of content
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
** https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/ 404s
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** https://wicg.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/ redirects to above URL
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion
* Shadow DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#shadow-trees
* Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
** https://www.w3.org/TR/shadow-dom/ is empty of content
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
** https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/ 404s
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.
** https://wicg.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/ contains some content that still needs to be more rigorously specified and upstreamed
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/661 tracking issue for remaining upstream work
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
* DOM Parsing and Serialization
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
** DOMParser moved to HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dynamic-markup-insertion.html#dom-parsing-and-serialization
** Status: Although XHR "level 2" has been discontinued as a NOTE, XHR "level 1" continues to exist as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec is not properly layered on top of the Fetch Standard, either, which means it fails to integrate with the rest of the platform (e.g. it is not intercepted by service workers, according to the fork).
** XMLSerializer and serialization spec remains in https://w3c.github.io/DOM-Parsing/ pending WHATWG-side work
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Parsing/ still contains both DOMParser and XMLSerializer
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2013.
* Resource Hints: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#linkTypes
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** https://w3c.github.io/resource-hints/ redirects
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/html/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in early 2016 (see [https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11 blog post]).
** https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/ redirects
** In general all of these attempt to copy-and-paste HTML and then apply forked patches on top, but the scripts are wonky, leading to lots of errors.
** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings:
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/

Latest revision as of 06:57, 3 July 2023

This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.

Per the Memorandum of Understanding between W3C and WHATWG, everything is pretty much cleared up.

Confusion mitigated

Non-forks

Some work started out in W3C Working Groups or Community Groups but has since moved to the WHATWG. This section tracks what happened in those cases.

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