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This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.
Per the Memorandum of Understanding between W3C and WHATWG, everything is pretty much cleared up.
Confusion mitigated
- HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
- The following HTML forks redirect:
- The following TR URLs of HTML subsets redirect:
- The following ED URLs of HTML subsets redirect:
- 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
- Resource Hints: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#linkTypes
- https://w3c.github.io/resource-hints/ redirects
- https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/ still exists