Re: CFC: Request to move HTML5.1 to Candidate Recommendation (CR)

+1 for moving HTML5.1 to CR.

Alex

On 3 June 2016 at 05:30, Gez Lemon <glemon@paciellogroup.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> On 2 June 2016 at 13:48, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello WP,
>>
>> This is a call for consensus to request that W3C publish the current HTML
>> Working Draft (WD) as a Candidate Recommendation (CR). It has been posted
>> to
>> public-webapps@w3.org as the official email for this WG.
>>
>> Please reply to this thread on public-webapps@w3.org  no later than end
>> of
>> day on 10 June. Positive responses are preferred and encouraged, silence
>> will be considered as assent.
>>
>> The current HTML5.1 WD [1] improves upon HTML5. It includes updates that
>> make it more reliable, more readable and understandable, and a better
>> match
>> for reality. Substantial changes between HTML5 and HTML5.1 can be found in
>> the spec [2].
>>
>> When a specification moves to CR it triggers a Call For Exclusions, per
>> section 4 of the W3C Patent Policy [3]. No substantive additions can be
>> made
>> to a specification in CR without starting a new Call for Exclusions, so we
>> will put HTML5.1 into "feature freeze". It is possible to make editorial
>> updates as necessary, and features marked "At Risk" may be removed if
>> found
>> not to be interoperable.
>>
>> The following features are considered "at risk". If we cannot identify at
>> least two shipping implementations, they will be marked "at risk" in the
>> CR
>> and may be removed from the Proposed Recommendation.
>>
>> keygen element. [issue 43]
>> label as a reassociatable element [issue 109]
>> Fixing requestAnimationFrame to 60Hz, not implementation-defined [issues
>> 159/375/422]
>> registerContentHandler [Issue 233]
>> inputmode attribute of the input element [issue 269]
>> autofill of form elements [issue 372]
>> menu, menuitem and context menus. [issue 373]
>> dialog element [issue 427]
>> Text tracks exposing in-band metadata best practices [Issue 461]
>> datetime and datatime-local states of the input element [Issue 462]
>>
>> Please share implementation details for any of these features on Github.
>> To
>> mark other features "at risk", please identify them by 10th June (ideally
>> by
>> filing an issue and providing a test case).
>>
>> At the same time we move HTML5.1 into CR, we plan to continue updating the
>> Editor's Draft, and in the next few weeks we expect to post a Call for
>> Consensus to publish it as the First Public Working Draft of HTML5.2, so
>> improving HTML will continue without a pause. It also means that changes
>> that didn't make it into
>> HTML5.1 will not have long to wait before being incorporated into the
>> specification.
>>
>> Léonie on behalf of the WP chairs and team, and HTML editors.
>> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/
>> [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/html51/changes.html#changes
>> [3] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Exclusion
>>
>> [issue 43] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/43
>> [issue 109] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/109
>> [issues 159/375/422] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/159 and links
>> [issue
>> 233] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/233
>> [issue 269] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/269
>> [issue 372] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/372
>> [issue 373] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/373
>> [issue 427] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/427
>> [Issue 461] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/461
>> [Issue 462] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/462
>>
>>
>> --
>> @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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