Changing the copyright license for Living Standards
The recent changes to the WHATWG are designed to help the web-standards development community work together across the broadest possible spectrum of developers, implementers, and end-users. As part of...
View ArticleFirst set of Review Drafts published
(If you’re interested in the IPR status of WHATWG standards this post is for you; otherwise, feel free to skip.) One aspect of last year's working mode changes is the periodic publication of a Review...
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The state of fieldset interoperability
As part of my work at Bocoup, I recently started working with browser implementers to improve the state of fieldset, the 21 year old feature in HTML, that provides form accessibility benefits to...
View ArticleFocusing on focus
Focus behavior in HTML had been under-specified for the past few years, and it was also quite confusing due to a variety of subtle differences between focusing methods, UA-specific behaviors, relation...
View ArticleConsidering accessibility
Sometimes, new authors need a gentle reminder to think about accessibility when designing and writing web pages and apps. Experienced authors need a quick way to look up the allowed ARIA roles, states...
View ArticleUpdate from the Steering Group
A couple things the Steering Group has been working on recently reached a new milestone and seemed noteworthy enough to highlight to the wider WHATWG community. As you may know the WHATWG formally...
View ArticleNewline normalizations in form submission
If you work with form submissions, you might have noticed that form values containing newlines are normalized to CRLF, no matter whether the DOM value had LF or CR instead: <form action="./post"...
View ArticleNew Living Standards
The last time we introduced a new Living Standard was Infra, in 2016. This year has seen a flurry of activity, with four new standards joining the WHATWG! The Web IDL Standard defines the interface...
View ArticleRetro-specifying fetch/performance
In the last year or so, my main task was to tackle some of the "specification technical debt" that had been accumulating over a few years, specifically at the crossroads of Fetch, performance APIs,...
View ArticleThe URL Pattern Standard
Welcome to the newest standard maintained by the WHATWG: the URL Pattern Standard! The URL Pattern Standard gives a generic pattern syntax for matching URLs, and extracting the parts from them. It is...
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