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Big editorial cleanup. No normative changes. (whatwg r8634)

Print version of the spec (thanks IZh!); protocol-neutral version of the spec so that scripts and styles work on https://www.whatwg.org/ (whatwg r8578)

Various editorial tweaks. (whatwg r8405)

Add an event index which acts as the definition of the event names, for editorial purposes (event names are really just strings, so they don't have, or need, a normative definition per se). (whatwg r8385)

Define structured cloning for Map and Set (whatwg r8374)

Suggest that quotas be based on uncompressed sizes, since the alternatives are more abusable and less predictable for authors and users (whatwg r8241)

The giant clean-up of 2013. Improved internal consistency, adjusted section order to make more sense, started a move away from abusing title='' for cross-references, fixed minor typos, cleaned up some dangling TODOs, very minor typo fixes, dropped some obsolete comments, un-commented-out minor things that had previously been commented out for reasons that no longer apply, etc. No normative changes. (whatwg r8229)

Cleanup (whatwg r8125)

Remove the weird stuff around document.domain and localStorage. It doesn't really do anything anyway. (whatwg r8090)

Block enumeration of cross-origin objects, and clean up the language around those objects to be more consistent so that differences can more easily be seen. (whatwg r7997)

Make fingerprinting vector icons xref (whatwg r7911)

Fix <area> to match <a> in terms of security checking. Also, some editorial fixes. (whatwg r7836)

WebVTT is now being edited by Silvia Pfeiffer. If you want to follow further development, please subscribe to public-texttracks@w3.org, the WebVTT community group's mailing list. (whatwg r7834)

Cleanup (whatwg r7819)

Option constructor: clean up to use more WebIDL features, behave more like IE for the first argument. Add some rationale for Web Storage disk quota suggestions. (whatwg r7785)

Specify image dimensions for recently-added images. (whatwg r7775)

Clean up some translation-related things. (whatwg r7745)

Cleanup (whatwg r7744)

Try to define order for supported property names. This is not based on testing. If there are compatibility constraints here that prevent implementing this as specced, please let me know. (whatwg r7722)

Cleanup (whatwg r7695)

Embrace the Encodings specification. (whatwg r7647)

Try to clarify when 'storage' even fires. (whatwg r7615)

Try to clarify how 'storage' events are sent. (whatwg r7592)

Update references to DOM spec so they call it its real name. (Boy am I late to _this_ party.) This update will also make <iframe seamless> do event retargetting once DOM is updated to support that (see bug 18780 - marked this bug 'editorial' since this change doesn't work without the DOM stuff). Also, a lot of clean-up to affected areas. (whatwg r7562)

Clarify that this can be a default behaviour. (whatwg r7540)

Cleanup sweep. Should make diffs of upcoming patches easier to read. This edit contains no normative changes as far as I'm aware, and I believe the only textual changes of any kind are in the history section. (whatwg r7530)

More security fixes: Location is now entirely Unforgeable, and wording for some other security paragraphs is now consistent. (whatwg r7515)

Remove use of the word 'recommended'. (whatwg r7507)

Try to be more normatively tight about 'fire' and 'dispatch'. (whatwg r7506)

Storage.getItem() can return null. (whatwg r7499)

Add sandbox=allow-pointer-lock, and some nearby cleanup. (whatwg r7485)

Fix link.

Make rel=noreferrer not clone sessionStorage (whatwg r7427)

Update references and related clearnup. (whatwg r7416)

Fix the intro to be more accurate about what the feature provides (whatwg r7399)

These specs are no longer being maintained at the W3C, so update links to point to where they are now being maintained. (whatwg r7361)

Fix some typos or copypasta. (whatwg r7306)

Updates the the vCard section, and related cleanup. (whatwg r7276)

Mark features that can be used for fingerprinting. I'm sure I missed some, please don't hesitate to point them out to me. Even if they only contribute half a bit of data. (whatwg r7205)

Fix old obsolete text. (whatwg r7197)

Minor reference tweaks. (whatwg r7192)

Fix some typos or copypasta. (whatwg r7172)

Add new escapes to WebVTT for bidi authors (whatwg r7063)

This member should be nullable, since we null it sometimes. (whatwg r7044)

Only apply styles for [dir] if the attribute value is actually valid (ltr, rtl, auto). (whatwg r7043)

Add ellipse support to canvas. (whatwg r7025)

Prepare a WebVTT standard. Remove the WebVTT text from the HTML standard; refer to the WebVTT spec instead. Drop PeerConnection (moved to W3C WebRTC WG). Clean up some internal annotations (sorry, this affects a number of topics but is purely editorial). Fix some WebIDL issues flagged by recent updates to the WebIDL checker. (whatwg r6837)

New topics: DOM APIs, and Security. (Note that by default, people are _not_ subscribed to new topics.) Also, some tweaks to the previous annotations. (whatwg r6836)

Shake up the publication pipeline a bit. Merge the main two WHATWG specs. Update styles. (whatwg r6619)

Exceptions DOM Core/WebIDL fix. (whatwg r6602)

Update Event interfaces to use constructors instead of init*Event methods; remove some typedefs. (whatwg r6551)

Update WebIDL blocks to use new syntax. (whatwg r6502)

prettyify (whatwg r6461)

style update

Remove the structed data support from Web Storage. (whatwg r6364)

styling

Update the IDL blocks to use 'partial' instead of [Supplemental] where possible. (whatwg r6315)

cookies ref update (whatwg r6312)

Fix the handling of infinite loops in the various microdata algorithms. (whatwg r6277)

xref (whatwg r6267)

Update IDL to recent WebIDL changes, thanks to heycam. (whatwg r6220)

provide a hook for other specs (whatwg r6205)

Don't overpromise in security sections... (whatwg r6169)

w3c lc preparation

Mention the case of getContext('webgl') returning null due to hardware limitations. (whatwg r6130)

bug in example (whatwg r6129)

remove the external scripts from the w3c specs

fix pub issues

pipeline update (whatwg r6003)

full regen because the publishing pipeline seems to have gotten out of sync (whatwg r5987)

fix conflict issue

block more spam

Add a note about cases where scripts won't run. Also, update some references (unrelated to the bug below). (whatwg r5856)

Drop the syntax sugar for walking the keys of a Storage object. (whatwg r5806)

forced refresh

Add references to HTML spec since structured clone is defined there. (whatwg r5770)

Purge references to Web SQL Database. (whatwg r5736)

Revamp the way the boilerplate stuff is done so that Tab can help me out doing publications. (whatwg r5719)

Make document.reload() reload the input to document.write(), not reload the URL of the page. Also, a number of editorial fixes. (whatwg r5709)

Update localStorage to handle regrafting nested browsing contexts (whatwg r5701)

push a manual update

Add <video audio=muted>. (whatwg r5636)

update to new webidl terminology (whatwg r5622)

wd pub preparation (whatwg r5618)

update ietf refs (whatwg r5604)

typo (whatwg r5487)

Change how localStorage protects from cross-origin accesses so that old Storage objects don't become vulnerable after document.domain is changed (which was rather inconsistent). (whatwg r5314)

make IDL consistent with prose (whatwg r5308)

try adding registration templates to the spec (whatwg r5273)

new class attribute in header

A variety of minor fixes. (whatwg r5210)

Make a WebSRT-only view for Jonas. (whatwg r5192)

update various boilerplate text to be more accurate and more precisely follow pubrules (whatwg r5105)

change how boilerplate is added and update some boilerplate text with the new mechanism (whatwg r5099)

Remove the experimental timed tracks stuff from the W3C copy, by request of the chairs.

boilerplate updates based on w3c agreement

regen for build scripts (whatwg r5090)

regen (whatwg r5089)

update bugs db links (whatwg r5086)

Captions - Stage 8: MIME registration for text/websrt and minor edits around that. (whatwg r5078)

regen with updated scripts (no changes expected other than dates)

updating header per chair request (whatwg r4963)

try to make things clearer and more consistent (whatwg r4962)

spec gen updates (whatwg r4958)

ref fix (whatwg r4931)

Add the glyphs to the named character references table (whatwg r4915)

stablise ids for security sections (whatwg r4900)

w3c continues to insist on using html4 apparently.

Fix some pubrules problems. (only affects the W3C variants of the specs) (whatwg r4819)

Update all copyrights. (whatwg r4818)

prepare to xref Event (whatwg r4799)

Emphasise the non-normative status of the domintro boxes. (whatwg r4787)

Make it clear that disabling a feature should truly remove it, not just stub it out. (whatwg r4693)

Allow space in <br /> syntax. (whatwg r4689)

Editorial changes to 2D and Microdata specs for FPWD. Clean-up of the references sections. Fix some problems caused by dropping language versioning at the WHATWG. (whatwg r4646)

missed the dfn styles

Make <iframe sandbox=''> block localStorage and openDatabase. (whatwg r4584)

Update references from ES3 to ES5. (whatwg r4567)

Allow skipping sniffing steps. (whatwg r4556)

more cleanup (whatwg r4546)

cleanup. This may introduce other problems; I'll clean them up too shortly. (whatwg r4543)

Splitting out the Microdata spec. (whatwg r4543)

Add an example for CDATA sections. (whatwg r4536)

return to ED status

Change to referencing CSSATTR instead of CSS for style=''. (whatwg r4508)

pubrules fixes

bury some text the w3c is scared of

Minor example fix; update three specs for LC publication. (whatwg r4447)

Prepare some drafts for LC and fix pubrules problems in other W3C specs.

Full regen to get things back in sync. (whatwg r4436)

Update the issue marker regarding the storage mutex to include links to e-mails.

Add an issue marker regarding the storage mutex.

add styles for the configuration panel

minor stylesheet fixes

keys are strings. oops. (whatwg r4391)

update license boilerplate

Mention that .localStorage can throw in the case of policy decisions. (whatwg r4381)

Update dates.

Remove Web Database from the WHATWG complete spec; say that sqlite is the expected language; update the character references to the latest set. (whatwg r4374)

remove more namespace mentions relating to event (whatwg r4364)

Oct29 WD date

Prepare W3C Web Apps drafts for WD publication.

xref (whatwg r4252)

Drop init*EventNS(), since DOM Events is dropping namespaced events. (whatwg r4204)

Drop StorageEvent.source. (whatwg r4157)

resync (whatwg r4155)

WebSocket: Try to improve clarity.

Remove a contradiction (can you delete data or not?) (whatwg r4120)

Update the WHATWG complete spec to handle the bits where local storage and database specs had common text. (whatwg r4119)

Make a 'complete' spec of all the bits that WHATWG has worked on. (whatwg r4099)

Index of attributes. (whatwg r4094)

Split out the microdata vocabularies into their own specs (whatwg r4070)

miscellaneous cleanup (whatwg r3901)

Setting document.domain has to make localStorage unusable because otherwise you can cause deadlocks with per-origin localStorage locks (whatwg r3878)

Fix example now that Storage is no longer string-based. (whatwg r3866)

clarify applies table (whatwg r3844)

Tidy up the cookie resurrection text. (whatwg r3838)

Update publication bits (whatwg r3770)

Soften some language about being like cookies. (whatwg r3743)

Integrate with draft-abarth-cookie-03. (whatwg r3740)

Remove confusing statements that contradicted later statements about localStorage and cookies. (whatwg r3722)

Rename DOM attributes to IDL attributes. (whatwg r3713)

Move to consistently referring to HTML versions as 'HTMLx' rather than having a space in there. (whatwg r3703)

Prevent nesting <time>, <meter>, <progress>. (whatwg r3692)

Add automated status annotations to W3C version of the spec.

First cut at ARIA integration. (whatwg r3657)

Tidy up the database spec. Leave a big scary placeholder for defining the Web SQL dialect. (whatwg r3655)

Add a note about it being important that data get deleted promptly. (whatwg r3649)

Fix minor stylistic issues; add a summary for text-level elements. (whatwg r3640)

flush various formatting changes (whatwg r3624)

Yet more references fixes. (whatwg r3587)

More reference cleanup (whatwg r3586)

Update references in all the specs I'm working on. (whatwg r3581)

Clean up some references in preparation for actually having a references section. (whatwg r3567)

Update to latest Web IDL. (whatwg r3556)

Make Storage support structured data, not just strings. (whatwg r3549)

Uglify the spec for zcorpan. (whatwg r3427)

Make 'dependencies' its own top-level section, like in the other specs. (whatwg r3426)

Try changing styles to make tables wrap better in print version. (whatwg r3420)

Update abstract for Web Storage.

Split Web Storage into two: Web Storage and Web Database. (whatwg r3418)

Fix use of <i>, <em>, punctuation. Add note to <em> section. (whatwg r3394)

Clarify DOMTokenList's case-sensitivity. (whatwg r3388)

Apparently some people think 'between' includes the end points. (whatwg r3369)

Indexing an object should return null, not throw an exception, when out of range. (whatwg r3349)

Tweak presentation of category lists. (whatwg r3340)

Move openDatabase(), localStorage, and sessionStorage from HTML5 to Web Storage. Make it clearer where constructors are supposed to be visible. (whatwg r3325)

Write some explanatory text around the HTML parser. (whatwg r3304)

Clarify what 'affected' means. (whatwg r3240)

Add a .rollback() method for the sync database API, so you don't have to depend on GC if you want to give up a transaction. (credit: ap) (whatwg r3210)

Note about performance characteristics of SQLResultSetRowList. (credit: ap) (whatwg r3091)

Fix some typos and add the first draft of an intro section for microdata. (whatwg r3075)

whitespace issues (whatwg r3071)

note for future work (not written up yet as it depends on whether we pick sql or not) (whatwg r3070)

Correct syntax errors in the SQLException definition. (whatwg r3060)

various minor webidl fixes (credit: so) (whatwg r3056)

typo (credit: ab) (whatwg r3031)

Mention that tasks from discarded documents are also discarded. Change some prose to mention origins and sites instead of domains. Fire 'storage' on inactive documents as well so they all get notified. (whatwg r3026)

Define the task sources used for WebStorage; define that 'storage' events are queued not synchronous. (Also: Add some v4 notes for <canvas>.) (whatwg r3025)

Forgot [NameCreator] on Storage. (whatwg r3022)

Mention that uncommitted transactions get thrown away without blocking the entire world. (whatwg r3018)

Clean up event dispatch, with a particular emphasis on whether events get canceled or not. (whatwg r2992)

rename the database section while we debate whether we should have databases. (whatwg r2976)

publication done

there is debate over whether SQL is a good idea (whatwg r2975)

pubrules fixes (whatwg r2974)

W3C policy: fear of change, caution to the point of paralysis. Let's change the world, but without taking any risks! (whatwg r2973)

pubrules fix

Update to -23 pubdate.

Fix links to references section. (whatwg r2971)

Pubrules fixes.

Ready for publication next week.

Update abstract for Oracle.

Introduce a Synchronous Database API for Workers. (whatwg r2958)

Set the stage for a synchronous Database API. (whatwg r2957)

Refer to ECMAScript as JavaScript more consistently; add the various MIME types that JavaScript is sometimes known as. (whatwg r2954)

this was a test and it should have not been submitted.

tweak header levels; remove obsolete issue marker (whatwg r2917)

Rename navigator.releaseLocks() to navigator.getStorageUpdates(); make the network layer's seting of cookies grab the lock. (whatwg r2914)

SVG in text/html: Second try, based on more recent feedback. (whatwg r2904)

make expressions not be considered broken references (whatwg r2903)

Block concurrent access to .cookie and .localStorage using the storage mutex. (whatwg r2899)

Remove the commented-out notification API. (whatwg r2896)

Fix some headers and text/plain cross-reference issues. (whatwg r2893)

more w3c styling fixes (whatwg r)

more w3c styling fixes (whatwg r)

update styles for w3c; fix xref errors (whatwg r2891)

Rename attributes for form submission to avoid clashes with existing usage. (whatwg r2890)

Integrate the specs together a bit more, fix some legacy issues. (whatwg r2883)

typo (whatwg r2881)

Clarify <time>'s use cases and provide examples. (bug 6536) (whatwg r2878)

Extract Web Sockets, Event Source, and Web Storage out of HTML5.