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  1. …[8]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#br... [9]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5803 [10]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227924 [11]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-p
  2. …still currently stuck with ASCII, which is in keeping with its still-quite-limited support, though https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 progresses in fits and starts).
    comment by chrismorgan · 2021-07-05 · in The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot
  3. …iframes had happened, or any other way of auto-resizing an iframe: relevant spec issues are https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 and https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771 .) ② A submit button or link to a URL that returns…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2021-06-08 · in Fastly Outage
  4. …there. Testing it in Firefox to confirm, ascii@υνικοδε validates, but υνικοδε@ascii doesn’t. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 seems to be where progress is made from time to time. As usual, it’s not as simple as we might hope.
    comment by chrismorgan · 2021-05-25 · in Complexities of e-mail validation logic
  5. …frequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t... [2]: https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/ [3]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/search?q=progressive+web+app&...
  6. …toggle was available as an activation behaviour, and this is an open issue for the HTML standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567
    comment by inopinatus · 2021-04-24 · in Using <details> for menus and dialogs (2019)
  7. …injectable scriptlets. (1) of course there are issues, you cant inject into <iframe src="data: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1753 in Chrome :( so you would have to manipulate CSP to disable those.
  8. There's a metabug on HTML at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5880 about defining how various platform-exposed features behave in the face of a bfcache (backwards/forwards cache).
    comment by gsnedders · 2021-02-17 · in WebKit Quirks
  9. Re the generator, there's the passwordrules proposal: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 Some systems are already using it -- e.g. I know that Apple's generate-password helper reads it, and I believe that 1Password also does.
    comment by kemayo · 2021-02-16 · in Changes to LastPass Free
  10. That one seems gone, so I clicked on another, https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5984/commits/f056fd22b59... : - please let that site know of the problem instead. Thanks!</p> + please let that site know of the problem instead.We will try…
  11. …in last two hours https://github.com/phpmyadmin/website/pulls?q=is%3Apr 9 spam PRs in the last day https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+l... Take a look at this user who has made 21 commits this year. 20 of the…
  12. …compare e.g. clear spam, which adds a copy of someones website into the HTML specification repo: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5972/files There is no scenario in which that is even a potential improvement.
  13. I was curious what the average PR looked like, so I went to their project and opened one at random: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5968/commits/5d8b75ef0a3... Yeah, it's pretty bad.
  14. I was surprised by this, but at least as early as September 2008: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c67bb312ac44737c6c175b...
  15. …asked for them, as shown there (and note that Google removed <style scoped> from Chromium): 1. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552#issuecomment-17810... 2. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/bl... Also, even…
  16. …scoped>` being removed from browsers after Google requested it. That would be really handy to use. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552
  17. …If you are discussing this without reading it, this is going to be an unproductive discussion. 0: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3752/files#diff-36cd38f4...
  18. This position seems at odds with a recently opened WHATWG issue. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4986
  19. …are looking for? I'm a small fish but I certainly would love to see this HTML spec be revived. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552
    comment by munk-a · 2019-07-19 · in Building the New Twitter.com
  20. …[2] https://webkit.org/blog/8124/introducing-storage-access-api/ [3] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3338 [4] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5668660729348096
  21. …go figure. Re. specific examples mentioned: CSP is still evolving today and HTML has to keep up -- https://github.com/whatwg/html/search?o=desc&q=CSP&s=author-... With WeakRef, things still need to stay up-to-date:…
  22. …to focus specifically on the HTML spec and notable changes for newer devices and accessibility: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commits Let’s see, right off the top we’ve inputmode attr which helps support different keyboards on plain input…
  23. …ve.xmlprague.cz/2017/files/xmlprague-2017-procee... [2]: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/1116 [3]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/6e305c457e42276bf275b8... [4]: Edit: this affects differences introduced in HTML 5.2 vs HTML 5.1,…
  24. …or even reviewed by W3C-TAG, so it isn't a standard yet. You can find the full discussion here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3752
    comment by franga2000 · 2019-04-07 · in Native image lazy-loading for the web
  25. …year these people really soured it to me. E.g. look at 22-52 days old denied PRs on the HTML spec: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed That's an entirely different thing to "serious" small fixes that actually clean…
  26. …API that they mention in the blog post is proposed to WHATWG, but not accepted as a standard yet: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3338
    comment by JonathonW · 2018-06-04 · in Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
  27. Read this https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2806
    comment by stereobooster · 2018-06-01 · in Show HN: An Almost Ideal React Image Component
  28. …with the behavior of the other browsers without there being a patch associated with this bug? [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/00769464e80149368672b8...
    comment by jancsika · 2018-04-30 · in Prevent data: URLs from being used for XSS
  29. …://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7p5yha/proposa... https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/820 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3337
  30. …of HTML features across browsers, and link to sections of the appropriate specifications. [0]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/f8f9c6c222ce79c2f8df1855...
    comment by espadrine · 2017-12-27 · in HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming
  31. …diffing of Git revisions. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-html52-20171214/changes.html#... [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/f8f9c6c222ce79c2f8df1855...
    comment by goblin89 · 2017-12-27 · in HTML 5.2 is done, HTML 5.3 is coming
  32. …best to keep a really readable, tidy Git commit log, which should help with understanding changes: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commits/master If you omit the "Editorial:" or "Meta:" commits, I think it's actually at a similar level of…
    comment by domenicd · 2017-12-14 · in HTML 5.2 Recommendation
  33. …issues). Removal from being conformant just reflects the evolution of best practices. See also https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/master/FAQ.md#how-are-de...
    comment by domenicd · 2017-12-14 · in HTML 5.2 Recommendation
  34. …form/label/hr/input set of elements into the token stream. Super-bizzare. See the removal patch at https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/5c44abc734eb483f9a7ec7... .
    comment by domenicd · 2017-12-14 · in HTML 5.2 Recommendation
  35. …menu feature. We left menu as a semantic alternative to ol/ul for menu-like lists. See more at https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/2742 --- For more on removals within the WHATWG process, see: - https://whatwg.org/faq#removing-bad-ideas -…
    comment by domenicd · 2017-12-14 · in HTML 5.2 Recommendation
  36. https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/master/FAQ.md What parts of the standard are stable? The whole standard is more or less stable. There are some parts of it that describe new technologies that have not yet been implemented everywhere,…
    comment by dmitriid · 2017-12-14 · in HTML 5.2 Recommendation
  37. …explained in [1]). [1]: < http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html#start--and-end-element-tag... [2]: < https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/6e305c457e42276bf275b8...
    comment by tannhaeuser · 2017-08-01 · in Show HN: Compile-time HTML parsing in C++14
  38. …and just implemented something else without bothering to raise a spec issue or anything. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2568 for the resulting lack of interop that the standards now have to sort out. This doesn't always happen,…
  39. …case, Blink and WebKit are changing to Firefox (and Edge)'s behavior, because it makes more sense. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1813
  40. …features/removals of unimplemented features. (Bug fixes especially roll in quite frequently; see https://github.com/whatwg/html/commits/master .) There are some differences around conformance requirements, as some of the W3C HTML editors…
    comment by domenicd · 2016-11-01 · in HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
  41. …between web developers and browser vendors over in the WHATWG HTML Standard's bug tracker. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulse might give a reasonable overview. Compare to https://github.com/w3c/html/pulse . Some relevant corroborating…
    comment by domenicd · 2016-11-01 · in HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation
  42. …later than the rest in ES2015. [1] https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5365692190687232 [2] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/443
  43. …will inject formats with dodgy payload to exploit flaws in some app if the user pastes. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1244