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218 mentions on Hacker News by 149 people: 25 stories, 193 comments · first 2015-08-27 · latest 2026-10-17

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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. 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
  8. …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
  9. …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,…
    comment by bzbarsky · 2017-04-21 · in JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge
  10. …case, Blink and WebKit are changing to Firefox (and Edge)'s behavior, because it makes more sense. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1813
    comment by pcwalton · 2017-04-20 · in JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in Microsoft Edge
  11. …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
  12. …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
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    Don't let sharedWorkers die
    story by malko · 2016-09-06 · 1 comment
  14. …later than the rest in ES2015. [1] https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5365692190687232 [2] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/443
    comment by maga · 2016-07-23 · in PR converts the Three.js codebase to ES2015 modules
  15. …will inject formats with dodgy payload to exploit flaws in some app if the user pastes. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1244
    comment by motti · 2016-06-14 · in OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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    Add tag, similar in purpose to tag
    story by lisivka · 2016-04-14 · 0 comments
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    Support for "script type=module" in HTML
    story by tilt · 2016-01-02 · 0 comments
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    HTML standard now on GitHub
    story by andreastt · 2015-08-27 · 1 comment