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This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.
Confusion persists with some mitigation
- 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- Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
- Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2017.
- Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html53/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2018.
- 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: 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- Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings: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
- DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/
- Forked to https://w3c.github.io/dom/
- Status: redirected
- Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
- Status: redirected
- Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
- Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
- Status: redirected
- Fullscreen: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/
- Status: discontinued as a NOTE. ED URL (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/fullscreen/raw-file/tip/Overview.html) redirects
- Streams: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
- Status: discontinued as NOTE. ED URL is WHATWG URL, former ED URL (http://w3c.github.io/streams-api/) redirects
- Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
- Status: redirected
- XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
- Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
- A subset was forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/
- 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.
- 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/)
- 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://w3ctag.github.io/url/ has also been fully discontinued.