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HTML5 doesn't stand alone, it's just one of many specifications that form part of the Web platform. Many of these are currently orphaned or neglected; if you want to help, you could try editing one!
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]].


* CSS3 - there's a [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work whole slew] of specifications for extending CSS that are in need of editors.
== Platform ==
** In particular, the CSS3 Flexible Box module
 
* setTimeout
* [https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/editing/raw-file/tip/editing.html HTML Editing APIs]
* Web DOM4 Core -- culling the server-side features from DOM3 Core, adding features that would help the web, adding generic exceptions that would help other specs out.
* multipart/form-data
* updates to DOM2 Traversal and DOM2 Range.
* SVG
* CSSOM - the specification for scripted manipulation of style, both the existing interfaces and new interfaces to make it easier.
* ICO (if it contains multiple images, which one is used?)
* DOM3 Events
* Animated [[GIF]]s need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honor all values, so we should specify what needs to be honored exactly)
* Keyboard Events -- .charCode, .keyCode, and related stuff (mostly defining legacy interfaces)
* [[Wikipedia:Robots.txt|robots.txt]]
* Bindings For DOM -- defining IDL
* A specification that defines how XML maps to DOM Core. (This could be in DOM Parsing and Serialization or HTML if XML does not get updated.)
* HTTP (error handling in particular, might become less of an issue if we're successful in removing it in favor of HTTPS)
** Client-side HTTP implementation requirements specification ("option 3" in http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected])
 
== APIs ==
 
* User Interaction Events (onclick, onkeypress, etc).
** e.g. need to define somewhere that if you cancel mousedown, an element can't get focus
** setCapture / releaseCapture [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2008OctDec/0308.html]
** [http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20121128#l-1719 selectstart] (WebKit/IE)
** https://w3c.github.io/uievents/
* Undomanager: http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager.html and http://rniwa.com/editing/undomanager-usecases.html
* [[DOM XPath]]
* [[DOM XSLTProcessor]]
 
== CSS ==
 
There are [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work many specifications for extending CSS] that are in need of editors. The most important ones are:
* Hit Testing (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0407.html)
* Form control styling (see [https://github.com/domenic/html-as-custom-elements HTML as Custom Elements])
* Replaced Content
** http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-content/ (Do we still want this or is the component model sufficient?)
* an imperative model of box-tree construction
 
== 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
* URL 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]]
 
== 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.
 
== Stuff we managed to specify eventually ==
 
* innerText and outerText
** http://perfectionkills.com/the-poor-misunderstood-innerText/
** https://github.com/whatwg/compat/issues/5
** https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-innertext-idl-attribute
* data: URLs
** https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#data-urls
* Table Layout
** http://dbaron.org/css/intrinsic/
** http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-tables-algorithms/Overview.src.htm
** https://drafts.csswg.org/css-tables-3/
* The console.* API
** https://github.com/DeveloperToolsWG/console-object
** http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10694
** http://www.w3.org/mid/d7be01cb7077$4dd45010$e97cf030$@gmail.com
** http://sideshowbarker.github.com/console-spec/
** https://console.spec.whatwg.org/
* APNG
** https://w3c.github.io/PNG-spec/
 
[[Category:Spec coordination|*]]
[[Category:Specification editing]]

Latest revision as of 13:10, 25 January 2024

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.

Platform

  • HTML Editing APIs
  • multipart/form-data
  • SVG
  • ICO (if it contains multiple images, which one is used?)
  • Animated GIFs need a spec that, in particular, specifies how to handle timings (not all browsers honor all values, so we should specify what needs to be honored exactly)
  • robots.txt
  • A specification that defines how XML maps to DOM Core. (This could be in DOM Parsing and Serialization or HTML if XML does not get updated.)
  • HTTP (error handling in particular, might become less of an issue if we're successful in removing it in favor of HTTPS)

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
  • URL 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

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.

Stuff we managed to specify eventually