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Specs/todo

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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, contain [email protected] or post on the WHATWG mailing list or say something on the #whatwg IRC channel on Freenode.

How to edit a spec

We have some documentation on how to write a spec that could help if you want to help out.

Specs to edit

DOM

  • A rewrite of DOM2 Traversal.
  • A rewrite of DOM2 Range.
  • User Interaction Events (onclick, onkeypress, etc).
    • e.g. need to define somewhere that if you cancel mousedown, an element can't get focus
  • window.atob
  • window.btoa
  • XMLSerializer()
  • DOMParser()

CSS

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

  • CSS3 Flexible Box or some other UI layout model
  • CSS Animation
  • CSS Gradients
  • CSSOM

See also

Other stuff

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

  • find object at (x,y) http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/elementfrompoint.asp
  • find mouse position
  • screen object: top left width height pixelDepth colorDepth availWidth availHeight availLeft availTop
  • methods/properties for managing scrolling, especially in <textarea>, such as .scrollTop and .scrollHeight in Mozilla
  • support access Array element via () instead of [] (IEism) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289876
  • Need to say that NodeList's items are enumerable, so that... for (var x in myNodeList) { } ...works. (ack Dethe Elza)
  • a way to show icons for file types e.g. http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/05/04/FileIconTag.html (this should probably be a function for the 'content', 'background-image' and 'list-style-image' properties in CSS)
  • custom syntax highlighting in <textarea>, <pre> (ack Ryan Johnson) (this would probably best be done as some sort of output filter at the CSS level, rather than anything HTML-specific. It would have to support both <textarea>, where the data isn't in the DOM proper, and <pre>, where it is.)