- From: Philippe Le Hégaret <plh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 16:30:25 -0400
- To: Michael Dyck <jmdyck@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
> > The Director is pleased to announce the chartering of the Web Applications > > Working Group: > > https://www.w3.org/2019/05/webapps-charter.html > > I was interested to see section 10.2 "History of this WG" say that the Web > Platform Working Group "remains active to work on specifications that are > pertinent to the discussions relating to a collaboration agreement between > the W3C and the WHATWG". > > Available evidence appears to contradict this. E.g., Léonie Watson has said > that "The WebPlat WG is being put into a holding pattern, and it will be > replaced by the Web Applications (WebApps) WG." And > https://github.com/w3c/WebPlatformWG > says (as of May 2) that the WebPlat WG is closed, superseded by the WebApps WG. We haven't closed the Working Group yet. As mentioned in the WebApps charter, the goal is to close the Web Platform Group but we're not quite at that point yet. > > Most of the specifications of the WebApps Working Group were transferred from the Web Platform Working Group. > > If anyone else is interested in what specs *didn't* get transferred, I > looked at WebPlat's current charter: > https://www.w3.org/2017/08/webplatform-charter.html > (expired about 6 weeks ago). If you take its deliverables and subtract the > ones that have now been transferred to WebApps, that leaves (more or less): > > - An update for DOM4 > - DOM Parsing and Serialization > - Static Range > - execCommand > - HTML > - Microdata > - Web Sockets API > - Custom Elements > - Shadow DOM > - Web Interface Definition Language (Web IDL) > - Web Workers > - and all the "potential deliverables" > > So, based on appearances, it looks like W3C has abandoned development of > HTML + DOM etc. Of course, it's looked that way for a while, but is this > maybe the closest thing we'll get to an official announcement to that effect? The creation of the WebApps is only half of the story and we're about to make a separate announcement related to mosst of the specifications you listed above [1]. Philippe [1] https://github.com/whatwg/sg/issues/90
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