Current HTML issues & ideas in incubation

Hello HTML,

We have 231 issues open against the HTML spec [1]. Your comments and 
contributions (including PRs) are welcome, and always appreciated.

Some open issues...

#732 Use of the <i> element in the wild:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/732

#734 Label for should apply to contenteditable elements:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/734

#735 CSP can be circumvented in HTML5 using obsolete <font>:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/735

#736 Placeholder label option should not be recommended as label:
https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/736

New ideas for HTML (and other specifications) are discussed in the WICG 
Discourse forum [2]. Your comments are helpful in gauging whether there 
is enough interest in an idea for it to move forward through incubation.

Some HTML ideas under discussion...

1. inert attribute:
https://discourse.wicg.io/t/inert-attribute/1838

An attribute that would enable developers to mark part of the DOM tree 
inert (as if it were absent for the purposes of user interaction, text 
search (find in page), and text selection).

2. Relaxing restrictions on custom attribute names:
https://discourse.wicg.io/t/relaxing-restrictions-on-custom-attribute-names/1444 


In HTML custom attributes must begin with data-, but this prefix is 
difficult to use in some JavaScript frameworks (like Angular NG), or 
impossible to use with some (like Vue).

3. Ownership of content:
https://discourse.wicg.io/t/proposal-ownership-of-content/1820/3

A way to markup content based on these categories:

- first party content: typically content that the owner of the web page 
created or owns
- second party content: content like comments and other user 
interactions where the client(s) created the content
- third party content: typically ads, search bar powered by some search 
engine, embedded maps, recommendations, etc fall into this category


Léonie.

[1] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/
[2] https://discourse.wicg.io/c/html
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Received on Monday, 28 November 2016 09:57:14 UTC