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This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.
This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.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


* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** The following HTML forks redirect:
** Status: still exists as an outdated specification with no warning, causing confusion.
*** 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/
* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/ redirects
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/dom/
** https://www.w3.org/TR/dom40/ redirects
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot (and modified in undocumented ways) with no warning, causing confusion. And has a weird rename ("DOM4") too. Editors draft has renewed forking efforts with particularly bad copy-and-paste practices.
** https://www.w3.org/TR/dom41/ redirects
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** https://w3c.github.io/dom/ redirects
** A subset was forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/. (ED redirects)
* Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
** 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.
 
== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==
 
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/ redirects
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot, with a floating notice that it's an outdated snapshot at the bottom, but pretending that it provides a "stable reference"
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ redirects
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2017.
** 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.
** Status: [https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html Memorandum of Understanding between W3C and WHATWG]; ED URL is WHATWG URL, former TR and ED URLs (https://www.w3.org/TR/html/, https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/, http://w3c.github.io/html/) redirect
** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings:
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webstorage/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/workers/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webmessaging/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/websockets/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/eventsource/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/2dcontext/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/microdata/)
 
== Confusion mitigated ==
 
* 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/
* Streams: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/ is empty of content
** Status: discontinued as NOTE. ED URL is WHATWG URL, former ED URL (http://w3c.github.io/streams-api/) redirects
** 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/
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ is empty of content
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/ is empty of content
** Status: both /TR/ forks discontinued as NOTEs. ED URLs are to WHATWG XHR, former ED URL https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/default/xhr-1/Overview.html redirects.
** 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/
* URL: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ plus various aliases and older versions (e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/url-1/)
** http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ is empty of content
** Status: discontinued as NOTE, ED URL is WHATWG URL, former ED URL http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html redirects.
** https://www.w3.org/TR/url-1/ is empty of content
** https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ has also been fully discontinued.
** https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ is empty of content
** http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html redirects
 
== 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.
 
* Worklets: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/worklets.html
** https://www.w3.org/TR/worklets-1/ redirects to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ (maybe should redirect to above URL instead)
** https://www.w3.org/TR/worklets/ redirects to https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ (maybe should redirect to above URL instead)
** https://drafts.css-houdini.org/worklets/ redirects to above URL
* Custom Elements: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html
** https://www.w3.org/TR/custom-elements/ is empty of content
** https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/ 404s
** https://wicg.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/ redirects to above URL
* Shadow DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#shadow-trees
** https://www.w3.org/TR/shadow-dom/ is empty of content
** https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/ 404s
** https://wicg.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/ contains some content that still needs to be more rigorously specified and upstreamed
** https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/661 tracking issue for remaining upstream work
* DOM Parsing and Serialization
** DOMParser moved to HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dynamic-markup-insertion.html#dom-parsing-and-serialization
** XMLSerializer and serialization spec remains in https://w3c.github.io/DOM-Parsing/ pending WHATWG-side work
** https://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Parsing/ still contains both DOMParser and XMLSerializer
* Resource Hints: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#linkTypes
** https://w3c.github.io/resource-hints/ redirects
** https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/ redirects

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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