WHATWG patches staged for merge week 45

Hi all,

Today, I got to WHATWG patch 7502 (inc) [1], which will take us to
2nd November 2012.

PLEASE NOTE: you only ever have to look at the file called "source" to
give us feedback.


B1 (to land next week):
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This week we have the following new branches for your feedback.

* feature/whatwg_patches_week44_2012
  Review here:
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_patches_week44_2012<https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_patches_week43_2012>

  It will close the following bugs:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19851
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19852
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18278
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18260
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18133
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19853
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18065


B2 (undecided - feedback requested!):
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* feature/whatwg_charset_definitions: (proposed to hold back for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_charset_definitions


B3 (postponed to HTML.next or not relevant):
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Note: feature/whatwg_srcset received a new patch


These branches from past weeks are currently held back:

* feature/whatwg_canvas: (staged for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_canvas

* feature/whatwg_cleanup: (a bit of a mixed bag, but mostly WHATWG spec
only)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_cleanup

* feature/whatwg_force_spellchecking: (staged for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_force_spellchecking

* feature/whatwg_iframe_pointer_lock: (staged for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_iframe_pointer_lock

* feature/whatwg_inputmode: (staged for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_inputmode

* feature/whatwg_srcset: (held back for extension specs)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_srcset

* feature/whatwg_tables: (makes "border" attribute non-conforming - staged
for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_tables

* feature/whatwg_validator: (introduces
generator-unable-to-provide-required-alt attribute - relates to Issue 206)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_validator

* feature/whatwg_video_fastseek: (staged for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_video_fastseek

* feature/whatwg_video_overscan_captions: (staged for HTML5.1)
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_video_overscan_captions


Best Regards,
Silvia.


[1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7501&to=7502