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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<h1><span class="logo"><a href="/"><img
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<h2>What is HTML?</h2>
<p>HTML is the publishing language of the World Wide Web.</p>
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<h2 id="current">Editor's Drafts</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/">HTML5</a>
<br><small>
<a href='http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=HTML+WG&component=HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=pre-LC1+HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0='>Open bugs</a>,<br>
<a href="http://w3.org/brief/MjA2">File a bug</a></small></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/">HTML+RDFa</a>
<br><small>
<a href="http://w3.org/brief/MTg3">Open bugs</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?component=HTML%2BRDFa%20%28editor%3A%20Manu%20Sporny%29&priority=P3&product=HTML%20WG">File a bug</a></small></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/">HTML Microdata</a>
<br><small>
<a href='http://w3.org/brief/MTgy'>Open bugs</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG&component=HTML5%20spec%20bugs&priority=P3">File a bug</a></small></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/2dcontext/">HTML Canvas 2D Context</a>
<br><small>
<a href='http://w3.org/brief/MTgz'>Open bugs</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG&component=HTML5%20spec%20bugs&priority=P3">File a bug</a></small></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/">HTML: The Markup Language</a>
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<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/" >HTML5 diffs from HTML4</a>
<br><small>
<a href="http://w3.org/brief/MTg1">Open bugs</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?component=HTML5%20differences%20from%20HTML4%20%28editor%3A%20Anne%20van%20Kesteren%29&priority=P3&product=HTML%20WG">File a bug</a></small></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-xhtml-author-guide/html-xhtml-authoring-guide.html" >HTML/XHTML Compatibility Authoring Guidelines</a>
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<a href='http://w3.org/brief/MTg4'>Open bugs</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG&component=HTML/XHTML%20Compatibility%20Authoring%20Guide%20(ed:%20Eliot%20Graff)">File a bug</a></small></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/">HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives</a>
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<a href='http://w3.org/brief/MTg5'>Open bugs</a>,
<a href='http://w3.org/brief/MjAw'>Open bugs (pre-LC1)</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG&component=alt%20techniques%20(editor:%20Steven%20Faulkner)">File a bug</a></small></li>
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| <a href="#sched">Milestones</a>
| <a href="#who">Membership</a>
| <a href="#telcon">Meetings</a>
| <a href="#events">Decisions</a>
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Near:
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/" >announcements</a>
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/" >Surveys</a>
| <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/" >Wiki</a>
| <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/planet/" >Planet HTML5</a>
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Discuss: <a href="#lists" >mailing lists</a> | <a href="#irc">IRC</a>
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<section><h2 id="lastcall">Last Call</h2>
<p><strong>The W3C HTML Working Group is processing issues
received during
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/05/html5lc-pr.html">Last Call
period</a></strong>, in particular on the priority open issues
that are listed at the beginning of each document. Individuals
are still welcome to send comments against our various
documents. The W3C HTML Working Group also invites contributions
to the growing <a href="http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Testing">HTML
test suite</a>, an important instrument for achieving
interoperability.</p>
<p>To provide feedback on any of the specifications, please see
the instructions in the status section of each document:</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">HTML5</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/">HTML+RDFa 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/">HTML Microdata</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/">HTML Canvas 2D
Context</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/">Polyglot Markup:
HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html-alt-techniques/">HTML5:
Techniques for providing useful text alternatives</a></li>
</ol>
</section>
<section><h2 id="ongoing">Ongoing</h2>
<p>At a recent W3C Advisory Committee meeting, there is a session
where the HTML WG co-chairs reported to the W3C membership on
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0516-htmlupdate/">Working
Group's status and progress</a>.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Jun/0315.html">Last
Call timeline</a> message from the chairs includes details about
the timeline for taking the HTML5 spec through Last Call.</p>
<p>Other ongoing activities include:</p>
<p>Bugs filed prior to 2011-08-03 Last Call bug-cutoff date:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=HTML+WG&component=LC1+alt+techniques+%28editor%3A+Steven+Faulkner%29&component=LC1+HTML+Canvas+2D+Context+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML+Microdata+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML%2BRDFa+%28editor%3A+Manu+Sporny%29&component=LC1+HTML%2FXHTML+Compatibility+Authoring+Guide+%28ed%3A+Eliot+Graff%29&component=LC1+HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfield=[Bug+creation]&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=bug_status&type0-0-0=changedafter&value0-0-0=-30d&field0-1-0=bug_status&type0-1-0=changedbefore&value0-1-0=0d&field0-2-0=bug_status&type0-2-0=changedto&value0-2-0=VERIFIED&field0-2-1=bug_status&type0-2-1=changedto&value0-2-1=CLOSED&field1-0-0=noop&type1-0-0=noop&value1-0-0=">Bugs closed out in the last 30 days</a> (moved to CLOSED or VERIFIED)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=HTML+WG&component=LC1+alt+techniques+%28editor%3A+Steven+Faulkner%29&component=LC1+HTML+Canvas+2D+Context+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML+Microdata+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML%2BRDFa+%28editor%3A+Manu+Sporny%29&component=LC1+HTML%2FXHTML+Compatibility+Authoring+Guide+%28ed%3A+Eliot+Graff%29&component=LC1+HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=RESOLVED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfield=[Bug+creation]&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=bug_status&type0-0-0=changedafter&value0-0-0=-30d&field0-1-0=bug_status&type0-1-0=changedbefore&value0-1-0=0d&field0-2-0=bug_status&type0-2-0=changedto&value0-2-0=RESOLVED">Bugs with editor actions in the last 30 days</a> (moved to RESOLVED)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=HTML+WG&component=LC1+alt+techniques+%28editor%3A+Steven+Faulkner%29&component=LC1+HTML+Canvas+2D+Context+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML+Microdata+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML%2BRDFa+%28editor%3A+Manu+Sporny%29&component=LC1+HTML%2FXHTML+Compatibility+Authoring+Guide+%28ed%3A+Eliot+Graff%29&component=LC1+HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=-30d&chfieldto=&chfield=[Bug+creation]&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=" >Bugs raised in the last 30 days with no editor actions yet</a> (not moved to RESOLVED)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=HTML+WG&component=LC1+alt+techniques+%28editor%3A+Steven+Faulkner%29&component=LC1+HTML+Canvas+2D+Context+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML+Microdata+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&component=LC1+HTML%2BRDFa+%28editor%3A+Manu+Sporny%29&component=LC1+HTML%2FXHTML+Compatibility+Authoring+Guide+%28ed%3A+Eliot+Graff%29&component=LC1+HTML5+spec+%28editor%3A+Ian+Hickson%29&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=-31d&chfield=[Bug+creation]&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=">Bugs raised more than 30 days ago with no editor actions yet</a> (not moved to RESOLVED)</li>
</ul>
<p>Issues:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href='http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/open'>Open issues</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html">Change Proposal status and deadlines</a></li>
<li><a href='http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/formal-objection-status.html'>Formal objections</a></li>
<li><a href='http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/new-information-status.html'>New information status</a></li>
<li><a href="http://w3.org/brief/MTk0">Decision Policy Bug List</a></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section><h2 id="charter">Charter</h2>
<p>The current <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html" >HTML
working group charter</a> was issued on 7 March 2007. The group
is chartered to continue its work through 31 December 2014.</p>
<p><small>See also <cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-pressrelease">W3C Relaunches HTML Activity</a></cite> press release and <cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/vision.html">Architectural vision behind the HTML/XHTML2/Forms Chartering</a></cite> as well as
pre-charter discussion such as
<cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2006/12/reinventing_html_update.html">Reinventing HTML: Update</a></cite> and
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2006OctDec/0054.html">HTML and Forms Activities Proposals (Call for Review)</a> to W3C Members, and <a href='http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-6601'>XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5</a>.</small></p>
</section>
<section><h2 id="spec">Specification</h2>
<p>The HTML 5 draft specification was
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/">published as a Last Call Working Draft</a>
on 25 May 2011, as well as several other updated Working Drafts. The
<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/">current editor’s draft</a>
of the HTML 5 specification is also available.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in tracking changes to the editor’s
draft, a variety of mechanisms are available:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/commit-watchers-whatwg.org"
>commit-watchers mailing list</a></li>
<li><a href="http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker"
>interactive Web interface</a></li>
<li><a
href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html"
>CVS webview</a></li>
<li><a href="http://svn.whatwg.org/" >Subversion
interface</a></li>
<!-- * <li><a href="http://twitter.com/WHATWG" >Twitter messages -->
<!-- * (non-editorial changes only)</a></li> -->
<!-- * <li><a -->
<!-- * href="http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/index-diff" -->
<!-- * >HTML diff with the last version in Subversion</a></li> -->
</ul>
</section>
<section><h2 id="sched">Milestones</h2>
<p>
Individuals have <strong>until October 11, 2011</strong> to escalate any bug
received by August 3, 2011 in case they were not satisfied with the
editor's resolution. Please refer to
the <a href='http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0516-htmlupdate/#%287%29'>HTML
Working Status report</a> for details.
</p>
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<p>The Working Group Schedule of Milestones is:</p>
<ol class="events">
<li class="vevent" id="HTML5adopt"><abbr class="dtstart"
title="2007-05-09">2007-05</abbr> <span class="summary" ><a
href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/"
>HTML5</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/web-forms-2/"
>Web Forms 2.0</a> specs <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007May/0909.html"
>adopted as basis for review</a></span></li>
<li class="vevent" id="HDPFPWD"><abbr class="dtstart"
title="2007-11-26">2007-11</abbr> <span class="summary" ><a
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/" >HTML
Design Principles</a> First Public Working Draft</span></li>
<li class="vevent" id="html5FPWDsched"><abbr class="dtstart"
title="2000-03-30">2008-02</abbr> <span class="summary" >HTML5
First Public Working Draft</span></li>
<li class="vevent" id="e82">
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2010-01-30">2010-01</abbr>
<span class="summary">HTML5 Last Call Working Draft</span>
</li>
<li class="vevent" id="e83">
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2010-12-30">2010-12?</abbr>
<span class="summary">HTML5 Candidate Recommendation</span>
</li>
<li class="vevent" id="e102">
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2012-01-30">2012-01?</abbr>
<span class="summary">HTML5 Proposed Recommendation</span>
</li>
<li class="vevent" id="e103">
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2012-03-30">2012-03?</abbr>
<span class="summary">HTML5 Recommendation</span>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Note:</b> The future dates in the above list are estimates
based on the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html#deliverables"
>schedule in the charter</a> and are subject to change.</p>
-->
</section>
<section><h2 id="who">Membership and Participation</h2>
<p>The HTML working group encourages active participation from a
diverse community, including content authors and content
providers, web developers, implementors (of browsers, authoring
tools, conformance checkers, etc.) and anyone interested in
helping to evolve the HTML language. A full <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=40318&public=1"
>list of participants</a> is available. A number of HTML
working-group members answered a <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/tasks83/results#xbgbio"
>background experience and expertise</a> survey.</p>
<p>By <a href=
"http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html#participation"
>charter</a>, we operate primarily by email (see <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/">public-html
archive</a>), supplemented by <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/">web-based surveys</a>,
occasional <a href="#telcon">teleconferences</a> and up to two <a
href="#ftfmtgs">in-person meetings</a> per year.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=41863">issue-tracking task force</a> is appointed by the chairs.</p>
<section><h3 id="telcon">Phone Meetings</h3>
<p>Teleconferences are scheduled for Thursdays at <a
href="http://www.w3.org/Guide/1998/08/teleconference-calendar#s_2715"
>12noon Boston time</a>. An agenda is due to <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/"
>public-html-wg-announce</a> 24 hours in advance; we make heavy use of
<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/agenda" >tracker's agenda
page</a>. Minutes are less formal than those of groups that
regularly make binding technical decisions in teleconferences;
they can be found on the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Minutes">HTML WG Wiki</a> within a day or two.
</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/04/scribe.html">Scribe 101</a>
for conventional W3C idioms and tools for using IRC to record meetings.
</p>
</section>
<section id="ftfmtgs"><h3>Face-to-Face Meetings</h3>
<p>So far, we have been meeting once a year, during the W3C Technical Plenary.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href='http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/TPAC2011</a> in Santa Clara, California</li>
<li><a href='http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Minutes'>W3C TPAC 2010</a> in Lyon, France</li>
<li><a href='http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Nov/0157.html'>W3C TPAC 2009</a> in Santa Clara, California</li>
<li>W3C TPAC 2008 (<a href='http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Nov/0030.html'>1</a> and <a href='http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Nov/0031.html'>2</a>) in Mandelieu, France</li>
<li>first <a href="nov07" >face-to-face meeting</a> at W3C TPAC 2007 in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts</li>
</ul>
<p><small>See also <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/ftf07/">Face to face meeting call for interest</a> concluded, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/ftf07/results?view=compact">results (80 answers)</a></small></p>
</section>
<section id="irc"><h3>IRC</h3>
<p>Some
participants supplement public-html mailing-list discussions with <a
href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/InternetRelayChat">IRC</a> discussion in
the <a href="irc://irc.w3.org:6665/html-wg">#html-wg</a> channel on
irc.w3.org (port 6665 or port 80), with <a
href="http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/html-wg/">public logs</a> and an
informal <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/PeopleLocation">directory
with names and timezones</a>.
</p>
</section>
<section id="lists"><h3>Mailing lists</h3>
<p>
While the primary mailing list for the HTML Working Group is <a
href='http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html'>public-html</a>,
we're using several other ones for the task forces, announcements, or
issue trackings. A <a href='lists/'>full list of all HTML Working
Group related mailing lists</a> is available.</p>
</section>
<section>
<h3 id="join">How to join</h3>
<p>This Working Group operates under the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html">W3C Patent
Policy</a>. The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations
produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF)
basis.</p>
<p> In order to carry out the Royalty Free policy, joining the HTML Working Group involves more than typical email subscription:</p>
<ul>
<li>
If you're affiliated with a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List">W3C member organization</a>
<ol>
<li>Use the <a
href="http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/AccessRequest">form for
getting a W3C account</a></li>
<li>Have your <a href="http://www.w3.org/Member/ACList">AC
representative</a> nominate you using the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40318/join">form for
joining this Working Group</a>.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Otherwise, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40318/instructions">process</a> involves
<a href="http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/Public">getting an account</a>
and filling out a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/ieapp/">form for copyright,
patent, etc. policies</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>When you join, you will be subscribed to <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/">public-html</a>,
the publicly archived mailing-list for the group. Consistent failure to
follow the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/DiscussionGuidelines">Discussion
Guidelines</a> will result in removal from the working group.
Please use the <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/tasks83/">tasks survey</a>
to let us know a little bit about yourself and which tasks you're most
interested to help with.
</p>
<p>This process is somewhat new and novel, and the discussion around
it led us to develop <cite><a href=
"http://www.w3.org/2007/04/html-ie-faq" >Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) about Public Invited Experts in the W3C HTML Working
Group</a></cite>. For example:
<em><a href="http://www.w3.org/2007/04/html-ie-faq#employee">
I want to participate as an individual in the HTML Working Group but I work for a W3C Member. Why can't I join as an Invited Expert?</a></em>
</p>
</section>
<section>
<h3 id="patent">Patent Disclosures</h3>
<p>W3C maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40318/status">public list of any patent disclosures</a> made
in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page
also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="issues"><h2>Tracker</h2>
<p>An <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=41863">issue-tracking
task force</a> is appointed by the chairs.</p>
<p>The issue-tracking task force is currently using the W3C
Tracker for its work. A
<a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html">summary</a> of
the status of each issue is being maintained.</p>
<!--
<blockquote cite="tracker-criteria.txt">
<p>The purpose of the group’s Tracker instance is to track
high-priority issues that are already under some notable
degree of significant discussion within the group — and that
are clearly important enough to the group as a whole that we
need to more carefully track discussion and decisions around
them.</p>
<p>In particular, note that the purpose of the Tracker is
explicitly not to provide a means for giving more attention to
proposals that have not had as wide an airing as in the group
as those proposing them might want for them to have had.</p>
</blockquote>
-->
<p>Here are some links to specific parts of the Tracker:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/" >HTML WG
Tracker start page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/agenda"
>agenda-planning page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/open"
>open issues</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/actions/open"
>open actions</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The <a
href="mailto:public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org"
>public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org</a> mailing list is the
mailing list for the task force, and
is <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-issue-tracking/"
>publicly archived</a>.</p>
</section>
<section id="events"><h2>Decision History</h2>
<p>The Working Group has a <a href='http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v2.html'>decision policy</a>,
and the Group is currently applying it.
That decision policy contains an
<a href='http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v2.html#enhanced-cc'>Enhanced Change Control</a>
section that describes how a working-group member can request a revert of a
specific change that an editor has made to a specification.</p>
</p>
<ul>
<li>2011-05-24: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011May/0318.html">6 Documents proceed to Last Call</a> (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011May/0347.html">objection responses</a>)</li>
<li>2011-04-18: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0453.html">Provide detailed instructions and examples for the <code class="attribute">alt</code> and <code class="attribute">title</code> attributes to all readers of the HTML specification</a></li>
<li>2011-04-18: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0452.html">Adopt revised text for the first two paragraphs of the <code class="element">img</code> element definition</a></li>
<li>2011-04-18: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0451.html">The presence of <code class="attribute">aria-labelledby</code>, <code class="attribute">role</code><code>=presentation</code> or use of private communications does not, in itself, make missing <code class="attribute">alt</code> conforming. The presence of <code class="element">meta</code> <code class="attribute">name</code><code>=generator</code>, <code class="attribute">title</code>, and <code class="attribute">figcaption</code> does make missing <code class="attribute">alt</code> conforming</a></li>
<li>2011-04-13: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0377.html">Enable all users to distinguish the cells of a table</a></li>
<li>2011-04-11: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0271.html">Modify existing Canvas 2D API caret and focus ring support to drive screen magnification with two specific exclusions</a> (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011May/0138.html">selection of diff</a>)</li>
<li>2011-04-08: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0213.html">Consider the inability to play at a given playback rate a hardware limitation and don't expose it via a dedicated API</a></li>
<li>2011-04-08: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0212.html">Define the <code class='element'>u</code> element as conforming</a></li>
<li>2011-04-08: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0204.html">Defer to the Microformats community for cataloging HTML rel values</a></li>
<li>2011-04-05: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0091.html">Drop the <code class="attribute">summary</code>="" attribute (in favor of the <code class="attribute">aria-describedby</code> attribute)</a></li>
<li>2011-04-02: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0016.html">Add a link to the HTML to platform accessibility API implementation guide</a></li>
<li>2011-03-31: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0755.html">Clarify that <code>application/octet-stream</code> should be treated just like any other MIME type</a></li>
<li>2011-03-29: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0690.html">The <code class="element">video</code> <code class="attribute">poster</code> is conceptually part of the media resource itself. Any short text alternative should apply to the resource as a whole, not just the poster image. </a></li>
<li>2011-03-29: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0691.html">Move advice about providing <code class="attribute">alt</code> text for "purely decorative images" out of the HTML5 spec</a></li>
<li>2011-03-29: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0689.html">Clarify how prefixes work in RDFa, and document that they're an optional feature</a></li>
<li>2011-03-24: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0586.html">Move the acknowledgement of the microdata usability study from the W3C HTML5 spec into the Microdata spec</a></li>
<li>2011-03-24: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0574.html">Reserve the term "conforming HTML5 document" for documents that conform to the HTML5 specification itself (i.e., no applicable specs)</a></li>
<li>2011-03-24: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0573.html">Not to require backslashes to be processed as escapes in <code>Content-Type</code> headers in <code class="element">meta</code> elements</a></li>
<li>2011-03-20: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0418.html">Provide a direct link to the W3C <code class="element">canvas</code> 2d context spec</a></li>
<li>2011-03-19: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0402.html">Allow attributes on <code class="element">link</code> and <code class="element">a</code> elements to have different effects</a></li>
<li>2011-03-19: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0401.html">Don't permit <code>noreferrer</code> and <code>nofollow</code> as <code class="attribute">rel</code> attribute values on <code class="element">link</code> elements</a></li>
<li>2011-03-19: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0399.html">Retain <code class="element">progress</code> element</a></li>
<li>2011-03-19: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0398.html">Make <code>Content-Language</code> pragma non-conforming</a></li>
<li>2011-03-19: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0404.html">Explain within the HTML5 spec how to translate input strings contained in text/html documents into URIs</a></li>
<li>2011-03-15: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0303.html">Treat <code class="element">figure</code> as being equivalent to <code class="element">p</code> or <code class="element">aside</code></a></li>
<li>2011-03-15: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0304.html">Change the note after "algorithm for extracting an encoding from a Content-Type" to not mention HTTP</a></li>
<li>2011-03-15: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0302.html">Use RFC 135 as the reference for ASCII character set in terms of Unicode code points</a></li>
<li>2011-03-11: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0396.html">replace <code><</code><code class="element">video</code> <code class="attribute">auto</code><code>=muted></code> with <code><</code><code class="element">video</code> <code class="attribute">muted</code><code>></code></a></li>
<li>2011-03-10: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0245.html">Make <code class="attribute">role</code>="<code>presentation</code>" on the <code class="element">table</code> element conforming</a></li>
<li>2011-03-10: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0244.html">Move a <code class="element">table</code> example to a separate section</a></li>
<li>2011-03-07: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0161.html">Adopt the "Change the title of the WAI-ARIA section of the HTML5 spec and provide advice about ARIA scope" Change Proposal</a></li>
<li>2011-02-28: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0005.html">Adopt the ARIA in HTML5: change some <code class="attribute">role</code> mappings Proposal (with a number of specific exclusions)</a></li>
<li>2011-02-28: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Feb/att-0481/issue-118-decision.html">Drop support for <code class="attribute">rel</code>="" values</a></li>
<li>2011-02-22: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Feb/0372.html">Retain Common Idioms section</a></li>
<li>2011-02-03: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Feb/0085.html">Don't provide an explicit means for others to define custom elements and attributes within HTML markup</a></li>
<li>2010-12-14: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Dec/0136.html">Don't add <code class="attribute">nonav</code> attribute, don't add image maps as alternative, keep navigable canvas DOM</a></li>
<li>2010-12-14: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Dec/0135.html">Don't put a versioning indicator in the <code>DOCTYPE</code></a></li>
<li>2010-12-07: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Dec/0056.html">Retain <code class="element">meter</code> element</a></li>
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<li>2010-10-13: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Oct/0169.html">Retain <code class="attribute">srcdoc</code> attribute</a></li>
<li>2010-10-13: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Oct/0168.html">Document XML escaping requirements for the <code class="attribute">srcdoc</code> attribute</a></li>
<!-- * <li>2010-09-23: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Sep/0245.html">Publish HTML5, RDFa, Microdata, 2D Context, H:TML, polyglot, alt-techniques, and HTML4-difference drafts heartbeats</a></li> -->
<li>2010-08-11: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Aug/0112.html">Don't include the <code class="attribute">longdesc</code> attribute in the language</a>
(<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0037.html">reopened</a>)</li>
<li>2010-07-20: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jul/0148.html">Keep <code class="attribute">hidden</code> attribute</a></li>
<!-- * <li>2010-07-02: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0028.html">Publish HTML5, RDFa, Microdata, 2D Context and H:TML heartbeats and polyglot and alt-techniques drafts as FPWDs</a></li> -->
<li>2010-06-01: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0003.html">Keep <code class="element">aside</code> element</a></li>
<li>2010-06-01: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0002.html">Keep <code class="element">figure</code> element</a></li>
<li>2010-06-01: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0001.html">Remove image-analysis heuristics</a></li>
<li>2010-06-01: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0000.html">Remove Atom conversion</a></li>
<li>2010-03-11: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0284.html">Make <code><code class="element">meta</code>/@<code class="attribute">name</code>="keywords"</code> conforming</a></li>
<li>2010-03-04: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0132.html">Remove <code class="attribute">ping</code> attribute from HTML5</a></li>
<li>2010-03-04: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0133.html">Don't include <code class="attribute">profile</code> attribute on the
<code class="element">head</code> element</a></li>
<!-- * <li>2010-02-24: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0851.html">Publish HTML5, RDFa heartbeats and Microdata, 2D Context and H:TML as FPWDs</a> (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0871.html">Director's approval</a>)</li> -->
<li>2010-01-07: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/att-0218/issue-76-decision.html">Separate Microdata from HTML5 Specification</a></li>
<li>2009-11-19: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Nov/0494.html">Adopt Proposed Decision Policy</a></li>
<li>2008-05-27: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/2008AprJun/0013.html">Release <cite>Offline Web Applications</cite> intro/tutorial as a W3C Working Group Note</a></li>
<!-- * <li>2008-05-27: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/2008AprJun/0012.html">Release update of "HTML 5" specification as a W3C Working Draft</a></li> -->
<li>2008-01-18: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/2008JanMar/0008.html">Release <cite>HTML5</cite> specification as a W3C First Public Working Draft</a>
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</li>
<li>2007-12-06: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Dec/0094.html">Accept requirement for immediate-mode graphics <i>a la</i> canvas element</a></li>
<li>2007-11-16: <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/2007OctDec/0014.html">Release <cite>HTML Design Principles</cite> as a W3C First Public Working Draft</a></li>
<li>2007-05-09: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/02/mid/46423D1F.5060500@w3.org;list=public-html">Adopt <cite>HTML5</cite> draft as our specification text for review,
use “HTML5” as the name of the spec, confirm Ian Hickson as David Hyatt as the editors of the spec</a></li>
</ul>
<p><small>See also messages from the chairs such as
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007May/0146.html">Decision process: Formal Objections and consensus in the W3C process</a>,
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007JanMar/0351.html">on consensus and decision-making</a>,
<a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0363.html">proposal
to release "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" does not carry</a>,
and the draft of the <a href='http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html'>decision policy</a>.</small>
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