Week 3: Staged WHATWG patches for HTML5.1

Hi all,

This week the following WHATWG patches up to and inc commit 7645 [1] have
been cherry-picked into the W3C HTML specification (master branch) for
HTML5.1. This takes us to WHATWG patches up to 18th January 2012, i.e. we
are up-to-date.

You can see the committed patches here:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master (21st Jan)

The five committed patches are in detail:

*
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/22d642f28cbddde5f23099ad50dd1dc71df413ae
 (7641) address input @range boundary condition

*
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/38eb6d3ee7904565035c22452046ce57500e9ae1
 (7642) clarify parenthetical of input default step and step base

*
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/58c4cfedf6d25d831865bce0751a0851ce6b5b7d
 (7643) Clarify the meaning of "magically align" and "absolute-anchored"

*
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/8863239d98d31895bbb9478356c5f7126b58d18c
 (7644) Make sure positioning for <dialog> is always defined relative to
the ICB

*
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e7c8dc0b9702656217ac50b003610fca568271a4
 (7645) Make stepUp() and stepDown() handle missing values as if they were
zero

Note that no patches from WHATWG were cherry-picked for the HTML5.0 CR.
Please register a bug if you would like to see any of these backported to
HTML5.0 CR.


The following branch continues to be held back for extension specifications:

* feature/whatwg_srcset:
https://github.com/w3c/html/compare/master...feature;whatwg_srcset

Best Regards,
Silvia.


[1] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7644&to=7645