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* JS changes: [[Web ECMAScript]]
* JS changes: [[Web ECMAScript]]
* Animated GIFs need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honour all values, so we should specify what needs to be honoured exactly)
* Animated GIFs need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honour all values, so we should specify what needs to be honoured exactly)
** GIF87a: [http://web.archive.org/web/20100929230301/http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/gifanim/gif87a.txt Text]
** GIF89a: [http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt Text] / [http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/gif/GIF89a.html HTML]
** [http://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/ What's in a GIF]
** [http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/gif/netscape.html GIF Application Extension: NETSCAPE2.0]
** [http://www.theimage.com/animation/toc/toc.html Gifology: Understanding GIF Files & GIF Animation]
** [http://web.archive.org/web/20100929231133/http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/gifanim/gifabout.htm All About GIF89a]
* Client-side HTTP implementation requirements specification ("option 3" in http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected])
* Client-side HTTP implementation requirements specification ("option 3" in http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected])
* innerText and outerText, if browsers don't remove them entirely
* innerText and outerText, if browsers don't remove them entirely

Revision as of 21:59, 12 October 2012

There are many specifications that need editors. This page lists some of the more important ones. If you want to volunteer to edit one of these specs, contact [email protected], post on the WHATWG mailing list or say something on IRC.

See also: Specs with editors, Howto spec.

Platform

  • A specification that defines how XML maps to DOM Core. (I think this should be in DOM Parsing and Serialization. Well really in XML.)
  • X-Frames-Options
  • multipart/form-data
  • HTTP (error handling in particular)
  • APNG (other image formats too maybe?)

APIs

CSS

There are many specifications for extending CSS that are in need of editors. The most important ones are:

Registries

Currently, the state of registries on the Web (and indeed for the Internet in general) is a disaster. At a minimum, the following registries need dramatically updating:

  • MIME types
  • Schemes

It's possible that the right solution is to change approach altogether (e.g. moving more to a wiki model of registries).

See also: Registries

MISC

Other stuff

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0127.html has a description of some sections that needed editing in 2008 and how much work they would be.

Some notes from the HTML5 spec about things that need doing: