Fork tracking

This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.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, most of this should be cleared up, but it's not totally done.

Confusion persists with some mitigation

• HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
  • Superseded Recommendations (still contain all the text and can mislead search engines; updating robots.txt or adding link rel="canonical" would be an improvement)
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/html50/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
  • 404s (should redirect)
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/

Confusion mitigated

• HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
  • https://www.w3.org/TR/html/ redirects
  • https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ redirects
  • http://w3c.github.io/html/ redirects
  • The following TR URLs of HTML subsets redirect:
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/
    • https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
  • 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/
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/ is empty of content
  • 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

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