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This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.
This page exists to document the status of the outdated forks of various WHATWG specifications, and any progress toward clarifying their out-of-dateness.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 ==
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
** Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** Status: still exists as an outdated specification with no warning, causing confusion.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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot (and modified in undocumented ways) with no warning, causing confusion.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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot with no warning, causing confusion. The spec model has diverged significantly in the meantime, and the outdated version is actively wrong, not just incomplete.


== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==
== Confusion persists with some mitigation ==


* 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** Status: still exists as an outdated snapshot, with a floating notice that it's an outdated snapshot at the bottom, but pretending that it provides a "stable reference"
* HTML: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
* 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** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
** Forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ as an outdated fork of a subset frozen in 2015.
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== Confusion mitigated ==
== Confusion mitigated ==


* DOM: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/
** Forked to https://w3c.github.io/dom/
** Status: redirected
* Encoding: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/encoding/
** Status: redirected
* Fetch: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/
** Obsolete subsections published as http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
** Status: redirected
* Fullscreen: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/
* Fullscreen: https://fullscreen.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/fullscreen/
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** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/streams-api/
** 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
** Status: discontinued as NOTE. ED URL is WHATWG URL, former ED URL (http://w3c.github.io/streams-api/) redirects
* Notifications: https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/
** Status: redirected
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
* XMLHttpRequest: https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/
** Forked to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/
** 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.
** A subset was forked to https://www.w3.org/TR/progress-events/. (ED redirects)
** 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. Progress events redirects.
* URL: https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
* 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/)
** 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.
** 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.
** https://w3ctag.github.io/url/ has also been fully discontinued.

Revision as of 19:18, 8 August 2020

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 with some mitigation

Confusion mitigated