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HTML derivatives
The contents of this page, HTML derivatives, and all edits made to this page in its history, are hereby released under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication, as described in WHATWG Wiki:Copyrights.
This page documents specifications which have some past or present relationship to the WHATWG HTML Standard.
Spin-offs
Work that once took place within the WHATWG HTML Standard but that now continues elsewhere.
| Former section(s) | Revision | Date | Current specification | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Determining the type of a resource | r3234 | 2009-06-12 | MIME Sniffing (WHATWG) | Formerly known as "Content-Type Processing Model". |
| Parsing URLs, Resolving URLs | r3245 | 2009-06-14 | URL (WHATWG) | |
| Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) (IETF) | ||||
innerHTML, outerHTML, insertAdjacentHTML()
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r6532 | 2011-09-04 | DOM Parsing and Serialization (WHATWG) | |
| Video conferencing and peer-to-peer communication | r6837 | 2011-11-28 | WebRTC (W3C) | Sometimes referred to as "PeerConnection". |
| WebVTT | r6837 | 2011-11-28 | WebVTT (W3C) | Formerly known as "WebSRT". |
| Editing APIs | HTML Editing APIs (W3C) | |||
| UndoManager and DOM Transaction (W3C) | ||||
| Origin | The Web Origin Concept (IETF) | RFC 6454 | ||
| Database storage | Web SQL Database (W3C) | Abandoned in late 2010. | ||
| Web Sockets | The WebSocket Protocol (IETF) | RFC 6455 | ||
| XMLHttpRequest | XMLHttpRequest (WHATWG) | |||
| XMLHttpRequest (W3C) |
Republications
Work that is being done in the WHATWG HTML Standard and then republished separately elsewhere.
| Current section(s) | Derivative specification | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Microdata | HTML Microdata (W3C) | |
| Web workers | Web Workers (W3C) | |
| Server-sent events | Server-Sent Events (W3C) | |
| Web sockets | The WebSocket API (W3C) | |
| Web storage | Web Storage (W3C) |
Forks
Work that has forked from the WHATWG HTML Standard and may differ significantly from that document.
| Derivative specification | Standards body | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| HTML5 | W3C | Regularly takes patches from the WHATWG spec, but is not up to date and doesn't take all changes. See this document for an incomplete list of differences. |