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** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
** 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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.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** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2013.
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/html/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in early 2016 (see [https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11 blog post]).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** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings: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 persists with some mitigation ==
== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==
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** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** 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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot, with a floating notice that it's an outdated snapshot at the bottom, but pretending that it provides a "stable reference"
** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot, with a floating notice that it's an outdated snapshot at the bottom, but pretending that it provides a "stable reference"
 
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2017.
** 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.
** Status: [https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html Memorandum of Understanding between W3C and WHATWG]; ED URL is WHATWG URL, former TR and ED URLs (https://www.w3.org/TR/html/, https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/, http://w3c.github.io/html/) redirect
** Subsets of HTML split out into other outdated forks, none with appropriate warnings:
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webstorage/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/workers/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/workers/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/webmessaging/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/websockets/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/ (ED is nice at least https://w3c.github.io/eventsource/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/2dcontext/)
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext2/
*** https://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ (ED also: https://w3c.github.io/microdata/)


== Confusion mitigated ==
== Confusion mitigated ==

Revision as of 22:00, 30 September 2019

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