A specification defining the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The updated HTML specification is expected to be modularized into separate documents. When extensions to the HTML specification are needed, separate extension specifications can be written. Note that the maintenance of the HTMLMediaElement related sections of HTML 5.0 (e.g. sections 4.7.6 to 4.7.10) is expected to happen within the Timed Media Working Group.

A specification defining the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The updated HTML specification should be modularized into separate documents. When extensions to the HTML specification are needed, separate extension specifications can be written. Note that the maintenance of the HTMLMediaElement related sections of HTML 5.0 (e.g. sections 4.7.6 to 4.7.10) is expected to happen within the proposed Timed Media Working Group.

We've put a new draft of the HTML specification into GitHub:

http://github.com/w3c/html.

You can read the editor's draft:

http://w3c.github.io/html.

It is based on the W3C HTML 5.1 build scripts, synchronised to the WHATWG

source from 12th January 2016.

A year ago, there was a lot of discussion about modularising HTML and the

working group charter [6] calls this out as a deliverable, citing a proposal

that Robin Berjon worked on [7]. The feedback we have received on the

proposed split by chapter is that it doesn't provide the benefits that

modularisation promises. To do this properly will require refactoring of the

specification. We would still like to do this, but we recognise it is a lot

of work and there are drawbacks as well as benefits.

One approach to test modularisation is to encourage people working on a

specific section to split it out from the "main" HTML specification, move it

independently to Recommendation, so that it can be referenced normatively

from the base specification. This way we can get some experience of the

process without undertaking a massive project before we really know the

costs and benefits.

Finally, a lot of time last year was spent talking about modularisation of HTML. But that is much more than just breaking the spec into pieces – it requires a lot of deep refactoring work to provide any benefit. We want to start building new things that way, but we are mostly focused on improving quality for now.

So we have taken some time to get going, but we’re now confident that we are on track to deliver a Recommendation for HTML 5.1 this year, with a working approach that will make it possible to deliver a further improved HTML Recommendation (5.2? We’re not too worried about numbering yet…) in another year or so.

These need to be pulled from WHATWG and merged into HTML 5.1.

Tobie Langel (IE) as editor for WebIDL, Sangwhan Moon (IE) as editor for

Web Workers and HTML, Yongsheng Zhu (Alibaba) as editor for DOM, and

Brandon Jones (Google) as editor for Gamepad API.

I've just completed my analysis of W3C's HTML 5.1 recommendation at

http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html (from a markup language rather than

web development PoV), and I'm publishing it here for review in the

form of an initial SGML DTD for parsing HTML 5.1, along with a lengthy

analysis text.

This is work-in-progress to come up with an SGML DTD (or two, actually) for parsing (the markup languages known as) HTML5 and HTML5.1 which is published here for review.

HTML5

A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML

W3C Recommendation 28 October 2014

The <dfn> element represents the defining instance of a term. The <paragraph>, <description list group>, or <section> that is the nearest ancestor of the <dfn> element must also contain the definition(s) for the term given by the <dfn> element.

This document has been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and is endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation.

This document was published by the Web Platform Working Group as a W3C Recommendation for HTML 5.2 that would obsolete the HTML 5.1 Recommendation.