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== Confusion Mitigated ==
== Confusion persists ==


* Fullscreen
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/
** Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** Status: discontinued as a NOTE. ED URL (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/fullscreen/raw-file/tip/Overview.html) redirects
** Status: still exists as an outdated specification with no warning, causing confusion.
* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/dom/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot (and modified in undocumented ways) with no warning, causing confusion. And has a weird rename ("DOM4") too. Editors draft has renewed forking efforts with particularly bad copy-and-paste practices.
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** A subset was forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/. (ED redirects)
* Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2013.
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/html/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in early 2016 (see [https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11 blog post]).
** 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.
** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings:
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webmessaging/)
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/websockets/)
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/eventsource/)
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ (published as NOTE, but still contains a bunch of outdated content)
*** https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/default/specs/RequestAnimationFrame/Overview.html (redirects to W3C HTML fork)
 
== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==


== Confusion Somewhat Mitigated ==
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot, with a floating notice that it's an outdated snapshot at the bottom, but pretending that it provides a "stable reference"


* URL
** http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ plus various aliases and older versions
** Status: has a reasonable red disclaimer, but still exists.
** Also, https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ exists without the disclaimer.
* Streams
** http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
** Status: mostly gutted, with a reasonable red disclaimer.


== Confusion Persists ==
== Confusion mitigated ==


* CORS
* Fullscreen: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/
** Status: still exists as an outdated specification with no warning, causing confusion. Obsoleted by the Fetch standard.
** Status: discontinued as a NOTE. ED URL (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/fullscreen/raw-file/tip/Overview.html) redirects
* DOM
* Streams: https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. And has a weird rename too.
** Status: discontinued as NOTE. ED URL is WHATWG URL, former ED URL (http://w3c.github.io/streams-api/) redirects
* Encoding
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
* Notifications
** 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.
** http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
* URL: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ plus various aliases and older versions (e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/url-1/)
* XMLHttpRequest
** Status: discontinued as NOTE, ED URL is WHATWG URL, former ED URL http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html redirects.
** http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
** https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ has also been fully discontinued.
** http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
** Status: Although XHR "level 2" has been discontinued as a NOTE, XHR "level 1" continues to exist as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec is not properly layered on top of the Fetch Standard, either, which means it fails to integrate with the rest of the platform (e.g. it is not intercepted by service workers).
* HTML
** http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ is an outdated fork of a subset of HTML; very bad.
** http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ attempts to copy-and-paste HTML and then apply forked patches on top, but the scripts are wonky, leading to lots of errors.
** Subsets of HTML split out into outdated forks:
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/
*** http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/

Revision as of 19:50, 8 January 2018

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

Confusion persists with some mitigation


Confusion mitigated