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Welcome to the WHATWG Wiki!

You can be a part of our community, making proposals for the next version of HTML5. This wiki is made available for you for drafting proposals, for writing essays, for keeping track of HTML-related issues, and so forth. Anyone can create an account and contribute content.

Before you begin, you may wish to read our contribution guidelines.

Purpose

The purpose of the WHATWG Wiki is to create a place for WHATWG contributors to post and compile their own proposals and ideas regarding WHATWG specifications. The specifications themselves will not be available for editing via this wiki. However, ideas you post here may find their way into current and future WHATWG specifications.

Main sections and Quick links

• FAQ
• Implementations
• What you can do — Help us review HTML5!
• Using HTML 5 in your Web site
• Presentational elements and attributes
• HTML vs. XHTML
• HTML5 Presentations
• Issue Discussion
• Feature Proposals
• Spec coordination
• IDE
• Testsuite

WHATWG Specifications

• HTML5
• Web Workers
• See also What are the various versions of the spec? in the FAQ.

Communicating with the community

The WHATWG community has several channels of communication:

• Mailing lists
• Hixie Tracker; A blog that only tracks e-mails to the WHATWG list that are written by the editor
• The blog, including Mark Pilgrim's column "This week in HTML5"
• W3C's "HTML5 planet"
• The forum
• IRC
• Jean-Baptiste's "Last week in HTML5"; A blog that highlights controversial comments on the IRC channel
• This wiki

Research and data

Research pertaining to and data on publishing behavior for various bits of markup, used to help drive decisions made in/for HTML5 for specific elements and attributes.

Elements: (perhaps abstract to an elements page if many more are added)

• cite
• time

Attributes: (perhaps abstract to an attributes page if many more are added)

• charset
• summary