Week 6/7: Staged WHATWG patches for HTML5.1

HI all,

This week the following WHATWG patches up to and inc commit 7724 [1] have
been cherry-picked into the W3C HTML specification (master branch) for
HTML5.1. This takes us to WHATWG patches up to 16th Feburary 2013.

You can see the actually committed patches here:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master (15/16/17 Feb).

The cherry-picked patches address the following:

* <code> @class language example clarification

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e79bbd0a7182db0e2806feecd0effd51d0d87c8d

* add <ol type> to index and list <menuitem> in right place

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e00e6ca43feb2da7be09483fcd4c34a691d6dab8

* fix to make Unicode CLDR reference non-normative

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/c09ca04084de60f242b69f4f69063105567d1808

* clarify international number format recognition

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/3c757c6bddeffabe76bd3e35a2ee77030a49b47e
  Closes bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16165
  Addresses issue 136

* dateTime spelling consistency in HTMLTimeElement

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e151e6511a1d289da635ae72fb36736bd360601f

* clarify"override URL" of a document.open();location.reload(); Document

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/8bc402e7c9b9f65801176c11f8eb148c616d827d

* Remove XHR monkey patch (base url, origin, referrer source etc) since
they are now terms in the XHR spec

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/aab5375d8188765e7c0edf9cea9a81046a29ac4e

* Cross-ref instances of 'the method of the same name' in postMessage() on
DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope, HTMLCollection item()

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/09966aaed1e55e59263753ea33b07cf39388453b

* Fix ECMAScript SyntaxError cross-reference

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/cb38e4e6ed3f684a0d9d1cbb37e09830f68bb19f

* Integrate the 'event loop' mechanism of workers and windows and specify
which is meant when it might be ambiguous.

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/739f8d27720676856a83c3f19c3bdf82bcd5dd6d

* Allow comma in a <meta @refresh>

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/387a183c8171360833e4ceee8bb2cfc044cbf885
  Closes bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18228

* Clarify hgroup's definition

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/45e3e47cfbc1807825a07582092238707aa9a20d

* In quirks mode, apply border-box to textbox and all inputs except image.

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/c24193542577e92139f223efc14d143c097145fb

* Make the BOM take precedence over HTTP charset for scripts

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/28d8b91f9d034ccea4eba9861e3725e3b0f468a7

* Clarify event handler values in WebIDL

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/9b423e03839eb0b62d846f14d8e11bde7c117ccc

* Make <embed> loading async

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e719d654424fc097635130e448eb68bc28f2635e
  Closes bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14007

* Microdata: Root HTMLPropertiesCollection at element's root node rather
than document node; collection's root might change during the collection's
lifetime

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/dc6b5fbf21400b0be1d2fc226597dc4d81443691

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/8460bb76aad1c4a9742e34517b85fb09050725c3
  Closes bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18194

* Add some examples to outline algorithm

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/45db837d20227872ea33647e77e70afc3155ae77

* Integrate URL specification

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b2e4d7e252df4c1be9e71666ec794ab0b2fa3a3e

* iframe load event handling

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/f51cbef6e982d6e1327ce62ab62732c31d4477f1

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/8f94e4086ace34bd1eb7bf3cc58987b946ec6908

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/35683d7b35a5d2c3a5cfe8f9588d037539468de4
  Closes bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18219

* clarify "do not apply" on input elements

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/2e0937bcc56adb54223be4d4153108e78bf6fa08

* use 'filename' consistently for spec, use 'file name' only when used in
prose

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/c48883a11bb6380c65ae432b9139374b47875f4c

* use WebIDL to specify getItems() optional attribute

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/5729b50d668cf3b9509b4705ac5fb40efb77aa5e

* Allow browsers to act like video stalled during navigation, rather than
aborted.

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/43c1137027e426db887cb8b338aaec054b4cdfeb

* Define order for supported property names

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/787af9fa4ff2f2c352ece058589a7accb9b043fa

* Define setting valueAsNumber to Infinity or NaN

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/a00990f05bd379dd3567e13c25b8c510cc9df24c


* editorial changes:
  -- reduce differences to WHATWG spec text

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/118fff0a974aeeaa26362ca021c11ec58d28f4dd(move
<main> styling rule)

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/37ed6c292f82d89351c47095d5e22f4c7c3be6f9(paragraph
reformatting)

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/50680515dade909c0a593e7ea3fb195ab29d4d14(paragraph
reformatting)

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/f914fb8864403df5bf7d420c884ed7cfbf366aab(paragraph
reformatting)

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/7019df74d7383cae0932111d37c46fd8af0d1504(paragraph
reformatting)

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/40b24e67928d553e85eef03ceb1a51dd92af1048(paragraph
reformatting)
     + some canvas changes that have no effect on the HTML spec

  -- onmouseenter, onmouseleave listing in event handler lists:

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/63430fcafa665c1dfa47b8ccd33c52cb7338298e

  -- typos

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/049eca6728f5e1ce7f938c5b4fd536dd3e6b792b(s/for
for/for/)

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/a26a3aad176f47da80fc49aa1ce56e6422decda7(s/drow/drop/)

 -- add more IDs to interface definitions for better referencing

https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/ba32f981d88ac38373d6ca2f085be535bad740ef


Please register a bug or reply to this email if you would like to see any
of the patches backported to HTML5.0 CR or have any other issues with the
applied patches. Note that no patches were picked for HTML5.0 CR.

Best Regards,
Silvia.

[1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7723&to=7724