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

+1

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Dylan Barrell <dylan.barrell@deque.com>
wrote:

> +1
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> --joanie
>>
>> On 06/02/2016 08:48 AM, Léonie Watson 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
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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