WHATWG patches applied to HTML5.1 Nightly

Greetings public-html,


Here are some recent WHATWG changes merged into HTML5.1 for your review, with more on the way.



With these, HTML5.1 maps back to the WHATWG spec as of 2014-3-14 (SVN 8546).



Please reply back with any comments or concerns.



Thanks,

Erika

==Not Merged (needs review)====

    [giow] (0) Map <th sorted> to aria-sort=''.
    Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24757  (8534)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/c78af48c8a40fcd6058bdda8f6ab482e74f3a0e4 (whatwg branch)

==Normative Changes====

    [giow] (0) Also update the Touch object for hit regions  (8546)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/c01797e4d75c1f32fdb7fbda456f77775abaead1

    [cgiow] (0) Exclude <input type=image> buttons from canvas fallback, to avoid having to define pixel-level retargetting in hit regions  (8545)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/3f368cf65ae063a785a79251d24ce34b6b3152d3

    [giow] (0) More work on event rerouting for hit regions  (8544)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/400c495f31a329af8d4af33a4637750137fd8589

    [e] (0) Try to elaborate on why the UA might pick particular media tracks
    Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24895  (8543)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/ea7c2c9f1f90d6cd3e3f7296ac15bff9000834ea

    [e] (0) Fix some missing mentions of 'fillRule' in the canvas domintro  (8542)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/317ebdfc9f991b1c468ae4fe3ea1496fa77f6244

    [giow] (0) Make the canvas text APIs not create a new subpath at the end, since the last coordinate is so unpredictable.  (8541)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/ecd1dc41223ed0da5f78889fa39c6288d04964a1

    [giow] (0) Add a constructor for Path that creates unions of paths according to a fill rule  (8539)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/d4ff0286123cf6f11cc0ff329cb724cbed103939

    [giow] (0) Make the addText() methods on Path not create overlapping subpaths.  (8538)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/040746a4664d45b7dd539514a90a7370b861e1dc

    [giow] (0) Drop the inert='' attribute since its use case is subsumed by <dialog>.
    Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24983  (8536)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/0a1576dabc47e177f5bb6aa141e4c056b12de877

    [e] (0) Move a setTimeout() requirement from prose to IDL.
    Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24967  (8535)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/77490740be09dfd69b20eaacc26838ac8fbddd5e

==Editorial Changes====

    [e] (0) Fix a bunch of typos in the most recent canvas commits  (8540)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/c174821e270a9f8ec451a5931448c6f5c50a86d2

    [e] (0) Typo in <li> section cross-reference
    Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24982  (8537)
https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master/f61e2c0ce09104a8223413a9e121a391696c71bf