Specs/todo

There are many specifications that need editors. This page lists some of the more important ones. If you want to volunteer to edit one of these specs, contact [email protected], post on the WHATWG mailing list or say something on IRC.

Platform

• HTML Editing APIs
• multipart/form-data
• SVG
• APNG (other image formats too maybe?)
• Animated GIFs need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honor all values, so we should specify what needs to be honored exactly)
• robots.txt
• A specification that defines how XML maps to DOM Core. (This could be in DOM Parsing and Serialization or HTML if XML does not get updated.)
• HTTP (error handling in particular, might become less of an issue if we're successful in removing it in favor of HTTPS)
  • Client-side HTTP implementation requirements specification ("option 3" in http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected])

APIs

• User Interaction Events (onclick, onkeypress, etc).
  • e.g. need to define somewhere that if you cancel mousedown, an element can't get focus
  • setCapture / releaseCapture [1]
  • selectstart (WebKit/IE)
  • https://w3c.github.io/uievents/
• Undomanager: http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager.html and http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager-usecases.html
• DOM XPath
• DOM XSLTProcessor

CSS

There are many specifications for extending CSS that are in need of editors. The most important ones are:

• Hit Testing (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0407.html)
• Form control styling (see HTML as Custom Elements)
• Replaced Content
  • http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-content/ (Do we still want this or is the component model sufficient?)
• an imperative model of box-tree construction

Registries

Currently, the state of registries on the Web (and indeed for the Internet in general) is a disaster. At a minimum, the following registries need dramatically updating:

• MIME types
• URL schemes

It's possible that the right solution is to change approach altogether (e.g. moving more to a wiki model of registries).

See also: Registries

Other stuff

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0127.html has a description of some sections that needed editing in 2008 and how much work they would be.

Stuff we managed to specify eventually

• innerText and outerText
  • http://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/
  • https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/5
  • https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertext-idl-attribute
• data: URLs
  • https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#data-urls
• Table Layout
  • http://dbaron.org/css/intrinsic/
  • http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-tables-algorithms/Overview.src.htm
  • https://drafts.csswg.org/css-tables-3/
• The console.* API
  • https://github.com/DeveloperToolsWG/console-object
  • http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10694
  • http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
  • http://sideshowbarker.github.com/console-spec/
  • https://console.spec.whatwg.org/