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This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.
This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.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], most of this should be cleared up, but it's not totally done.
== Confusion persists ==
* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** Recommendation (not marked as superseded): https://www.w3.org/TR/dom40/


== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==
== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==


* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Superseded Recommendations (still contain all the text and can mislead search engines; updating robots.txt or adding link rel="canonical" would be an improvement)
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2017.
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html50/
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2018.
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/
** 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.
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/
** 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
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings:
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webstorage/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/workers/)
** Retired Notes (should redirect)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webmessaging/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/websockets/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/eventsource/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/2dcontext/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/microdata/)
** 404s (should redirect)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/
** Editor's Drafts (should redirect)
*** https://w3c.github.io/workers/
 
* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** Retired Note (should redirect): https://www.w3.org/TR/dom41/


== Confusion mitigated ==
== 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 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/
* 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://w3c.github.io/dom/ redirects
** Status: redirected
* 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: redirected
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
** Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ redirects
** Status: redirected
* 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/
* Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/ redirects
** Status: redirected
* 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
** A subset was forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/
** https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/ redirects
** 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. 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

Revision as of 16:40, 28 June 2021

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

Confusion persists with some mitigation

Confusion mitigated

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