Re: WHATWG cherry picks applied to the HTML 5.1 spec for week 26 (2013-07-01)

Hi Silvia,

* [at] (1) Broaden the possible use case for <figure>. (7991)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/2ed300772d47f768c831d8d06810b3229d07748a
> [ Please check, because I removed a FORK in this commit ]
>

right, I am fine with the change, but may modify updated text after review
and further discussion.


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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 5 July 2013 11:15, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Below is a list of the changes cherry-picked from the WHATWG spec into
> the HTML 5.1 spec, ordered by type of changes.
>
> These are changes made between 14th June and 1st July.
>
> The following bugs were closed:
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18244
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16564
>
> Some large changes were applied, so a review would be very much
> appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Silvia.
>
>
> DOM APIs:
> * [giow] (0) Make showModalDialog()'s dialogArguments and returnValue
> only be useful same-origin, to avoid origins attacking each other
> (7975)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/312bccbd4baea3b1f0a75b73d875e09676bcb23f
>
> * [giow] (3) WindowModal.returnValue isn't limited to strings. (7976)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/79c3f1b706f530ca18745b1cfd396f8946b30c9c
>
> * [giow] (3) Define window.close; update the list of members exposed
> cross-origin on Window to match reality (7977)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/e75908b4b571da400afeb63af69676da0e6bd6ae
>
> * [giow] (3) Make window.open() security aspects more consistent with
> reality. (7985)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/fed3fe4c0653961f9bc76fe12221514cab18aee6
>
> * [giow] (3) Be even more explicit about the supported property names
> of a <form>. (7986)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/06adf588d1926d2ffaa813ea17a1888c6e81b160
>
> * [giow] (3) Block enumeration of cross-origin objects, and clean up
> the language around those objects to be more consistent so that
> differences can more easily be seen. (7997)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/a7411e351d45a8c2b1e35a9ab23a7d3c20ad7ee8
>
>
> HTML:
> * [giow] (2) Limit labels in e-mail addresses to 63 characters, not 255.
> (7978)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/394614e452d37ad17866593d77a71e3dc4f9590f
>
> * [giow] (3) Finally clean up how we scroll to the top of a document
> (in particular for vertical documents) (7979)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/a610adb75b7b5969a3b4bcb6562bb200dc670290
> Closes: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18244
>
> * [e] (0) Lay the groundwork for DOM Core to handle reentrant mutation
> observers. (7980)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/4917090bdaa038423737dcf0f212dd35c5e84aac
>
> * [giow] (1) Simplify <dialog> positioning logic. Basically, the CB is
> always the ICB, and the static position gets reset more often than
> before. (7981, 7982)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/b14b05db107be4b8b5db02ceadca305dac735c4f
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/6b1cac30ec8e1b9f1996b093a1b5a5d44ab72d6e
>
> *  [giow] (1) Clarify formats for autofill fields (7983)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/8d555870c679c95d7c3097a8154f289ee8458381
>
> * [giow] (2) Sandboxing: prevent pages from closing their top-level
> browsing context (unless they can navigate it, in which case,
> whatever) (7984)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/0b1a3e934ecc56fc78e1c9d3c2a7bf9aef5b9512
>
> * [at] (1) Broaden the possible use case for <figure>. (7991)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/2ed300772d47f768c831d8d06810b3229d07748a
> [ Please check, because I removed a FORK in this commit ]
>
> * [giow] (3) Make <form> submission more like reality. (7992)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/903a9c4c9217f29d68fadcedd49372da12354915
>
> * [e] (0) Clarify <datalist> content model. (7993)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/9feacc093f27c0cb46b60688c1c07745a9a17af7
>
> * [e] (0) Fix mistakes with CSS and make 'not in a state' more
> consistent (textarea) (7994)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/3798b9ca9030c28fbb66512f24d3ab1b7bfa5ec5
> Closes: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16564
>
> * [giow] (3) Revamp how errors are reported to be a little more sane
> and hopefully slightly closer to more browsers (but there's not a huge
> amount of interop here and so this won't exactly match anything). This
> is a very risky change so let me know if anything broke. (7995)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/09710c23364a3004cb9da1cfacc13857effeca29
>
>
> HTML Parser:
> *  [e] (0) Very risky editorial change! Please review! This attempts
> to refactor the parser logic so that the foster parenting is actually
> done inline in a single algorithm that is called by anywhere in the
> parser that could be affected by it. This will allow us to add the
> <template> magic with minimal actual magic in the prose, hopefully.
> (7998)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/8e127db936c0c5831ab8095e8badcd9e744a5b11
> [PLEASE REVIEW: merging required deletion of extra paragraphs that
> were not present in WHATWG version.]
>
> * [giow] (3) Another very risky change! Please review! This attempts
> to refactor the parser logic so that the ownerDocument is explicitly
> set at each place a node is created by the parser. This actually fixes
> an ambiguity, which was what should happen when a script has
> transplated a node that is still on the stack of open elements into a
> Document without a browsing context, if the node created has some
> magic (e.g. <img src>, <script>). (7999)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/9f276deb4a20dd605d5490bef1c0e912f319fc40
>
> * [cgiow] (1) Integrate <template> into HTML. (8000)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/434b34afabe0b3dd8a11fcfee1ef801fc1e913b9
> [PLEASE CHECK: this mostly replaces existing <template> spec merge]
>
> Rendering:
> * [giow] (3) Make <legend> styles match reality. (7987)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/4dde1de457d340cff491d67a6ef284b101198e61
>
> * [giow] (3) Try a different definition of 'being rendered' that goes
> more directly to the point. This should not make any practical
> difference except that it handles cases where an element is in a
> Document that has no browsing context. (7989)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/bcac86888603be009281e1e03873610ec156decd
>
>
> Video/Audio/Track:
> * [giow] (2) Revamp how the 'time marches on' algorithm is invoked. (7990)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/47048d69c5b303f3cbd8144964f8e5c76b8e98cd
>
> * [e] (0) Make a note of some places where user-agent-defined
> behaviour can trivially be used for fingerprinting. (There are other
> places that have user-agent-defined behaviour that could in theory be
> used that way too that I haven't marked because in practice I expect
> user agents will either converge on a single value or will vary from
> page load to page load. Feel free to file a bug if you find cases that
> are real vectors that I haven't marked.) (7996)
> https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/3f169bc5592f99410065103cb8581275986aacae
>
>