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There are many specifications that need editors. This page lists some of the more important ones. If you want to volunteer to edit one of these specs, contact [email protected] or post on the WHATWG mailing list or say something on the #whatwg IRC channel on Freenode.
There are many specifications that need editors. This page lists some of the more important ones. If you want to volunteer to edit one of these specs, contact [email protected], post on the WHATWG mailing list or say something on [[IRC]].


== How to edit a spec ==
== Platform ==


We have [[How to write a spec|some documentation on how to write a spec]] that could help if you want to help out.
* [https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html HTML Editing APIs]
* multipart/form-data
* SVG
* ICO (if it contains multiple images, which one is used?)
* Animated [[GIF]]s need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honor all values, so we should specify what needs to be honored exactly)
* [[Wikipedia:Robots.txt|robots.txt]]
* A specification that defines how XML maps to DOM Core. (This could be in DOM Parsing and Serialization or HTML if XML does not get updated.)
* HTTP (error handling in particular, might become less of an issue if we're successful in removing it in favor of HTTPS)
** Client-side HTTP implementation requirements specification ("option 3" in http://www.w3.org/mid/20101101063413.bf1d8102.eric@bisonsystems.net)


== Specs to edit ==
== APIs ==


=== DOM ===
* Web DOM Core is looking for an editor (http://simon.html5.org/specs/web-dom-core)
** should document.documentURI really exist? be readonly?
* A rewrite of DOM2 Traversal.
* A rewrite of DOM2 Range.
** including much more detail
** including de-facto features, e.g. [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/range.createContextualFragment createContextualFragment()]
* User Interaction Events (onclick, onkeypress, etc).
* User Interaction Events (onclick, onkeypress, etc).
** e.g. need to define somewhere that if you cancel mousedown, an element can't get focus
** e.g. need to define somewhere that if you cancel mousedown, an element can't get focus
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Window.atob window.atob]
** setCapture / releaseCapture [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008OctDec/0308.html]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Window.btoa window.btoa]
** [http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20121128#l-1719 selectstart] (WebKit/IE)
* XMLSerializer()
** https://w3c.github.io/uievents/
* DOMParser()
* Undomanager: http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager.html and http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager-usecases.html
* An API for cryptography, to generate keys and the like
* [[DOM XPath]]
* [[DOM XSLTProcessor]]


=== CSS ===
== CSS ==


There are [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work many specifications for extending CSS] that are in need of editors. The most important ones are:
There are [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work many specifications for extending CSS] that are in need of editors. The most important ones are:
* CSS Animation
* Hit Testing (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0407.html)
* CSS Gradients
* Form control styling (see [https://github.com/domenic/html-as-custom-elements HTML as Custom Elements])
* [http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/ CSSOM]
* Replaced Content
** CSSOM needs to define how Link:, <?xml-stylesheet?>, <link rel=stylesheet>, and <style> interact with the fetching algorithm, the event loop, and the parsers from HTML5.
** http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-content/ (Do we still want this or is the component model sufficient?)
** CSSOM should have a mechanism for taking elements full-screen
* an imperative model of box-tree construction
** it has been proposed that CSSOM have a mechanism for keeping track of when expensive-to-compute areas of the document (e.g. a canvas) are actually being rendered.
*** Add a pair of events that fire when an element is hidden and unhidden
*** Add a pair of events that fire when an element is scrolled into and out of the view
* <?xml-stylesheet?> could do with a rewrite for integration with CSSOM; do 'load' and 'error' events fire on it?


=== Registries ===
== Registries ==


Currently, the state of registries on the Web (and indeed for the Internet in general) is a disaster. At a minimum, the following registries need dramatically updating:
Currently, the state of registries on the Web (and indeed for the Internet in general) is a disaster. At a minimum, the following registries need dramatically updating:


* Encodings: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_Encodings
* MIME types
* MIME types
* Schemes
* URL schemes


It's possible that the right solution is to change approach altogether (e.g. moving more to a wiki model of registries).
It's possible that the right solution is to change approach altogether (e.g. moving more to a wiki model of registries).


=== MISC ===
See also: [[Registries]]
* an API to do syntax highlighting on  &lt;textarea>, &lt;pre>, and contenteditable sections would be highly popular with Web developers (ack Ryan Johnson). (This would probably best be done as some sort of output filter at the CSS level, rather than anything HTML-specific.)
* JS changes: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_ECMAScript


== See also ==
== Other stuff ==


* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0127.html (a description of some sections that needed editing in 2008 and how much work they would be)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0127.html has a description of some sections that needed editing in 2008 and how much work they would be.


== Other stuff ==
== Stuff we managed to specify eventually ==


Some notes from the HTML5 spec about things that need doing:
* innerText and outerText
** http://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/
** https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/5
** https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertext-idl-attribute
* data: URLs
** https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#data-urls
* Table Layout
** http://dbaron.org/css/intrinsic/
** http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-tables-algorithms/Overview.src.htm
** https://drafts.csswg.org/css-tables-3/
* The console.* API
** https://github.com/DeveloperToolsWG/console-object
** http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10694
** http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
** http://sideshowbarker.github.com/console-spec/
** https://console.spec.whatwg.org/
* APNG
** https://w3c.github.io/PNG-spec/


* support access Array element via () instead of [] (IEism) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289876
[[Category:Spec coordination|*]]
* Need to say that NodeList's items are enumerable, so that...  for (var x in myNodeList) { }  ...works. (ack Dethe Elza)
[[Category:Specification editing]]
* a way to show icons for file types e.g. http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/05/04/FileIconTag.html (this should probably be a function for the 'content', 'background-image' and 'list-style-image' properties in CSS)
** Maybe something like moz-icon://? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010JanMar/0255.html, http://draft-icon-uri-scheme.googlecode.com/hg/draft-lafayette-icon-uri-scheme-00.html

Latest revision as of 13:10, 25 January 2024

There are many specifications that need editors. This page lists some of the more important ones. If you want to volunteer to edit one of these specs, contact [email protected], post on the WHATWG mailing list or say something on IRC.

Platform

  • HTML Editing APIs
  • multipart/form-data
  • SVG
  • ICO (if it contains multiple images, which one is used?)
  • Animated GIFs need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honor all values, so we should specify what needs to be honored exactly)
  • robots.txt
  • A specification that defines how XML maps to DOM Core. (This could be in DOM Parsing and Serialization or HTML if XML does not get updated.)
  • HTTP (error handling in particular, might become less of an issue if we're successful in removing it in favor of HTTPS)

APIs

CSS

There are many specifications for extending CSS that are in need of editors. The most important ones are:

Registries

Currently, the state of registries on the Web (and indeed for the Internet in general) is a disaster. At a minimum, the following registries need dramatically updating:

  • MIME types
  • URL schemes

It's possible that the right solution is to change approach altogether (e.g. moving more to a wiki model of registries).

See also: Registries

Other stuff

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0127.html has a description of some sections that needed editing in 2008 and how much work they would be.

Stuff we managed to specify eventually

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