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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** Status: still exists as an outdated specification with no warning, causing confusion.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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot (and modified in undocumented ways) with no warning, causing confusion.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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.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** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2013.
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/html/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in early 2016 (see [https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11 blog post]).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** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings: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/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/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/
*** https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webperf/raw-file/default/specs/RequestAnimationFrame/Overview.html (redirects to W3C HTML fork)


== Confusion Somewhat Mitigated ==
== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==


* URL
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
** http://www.w3.org/TR/url/ plus various aliases and older versions
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** Status: has a reasonable red disclaimer, but still exists.
** 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"
* Streams
** http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
** Status: mostly gutted, with a reasonable red disclaimer.


== Confusion Persists ==


* Encoding
== Confusion mitigated ==
** http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion


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* 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
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
** 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.
* 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.

Revision as of 12:33, 29 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