HTML WG Status Report
HTML WG Chairs Paul Cotton, Sam Ruby, Maciej Stachowiak HTML Working Group
• 9 documents (-1 for HTML+RDFa) • Participation: – 302 reps (+68) from 91 (+11 since May) W3C members – 215 invited experts (-44) • public-html@w3.org: ~300 mails/month • [email protected]: ~250 mails/month • [email protected]: ~80 mails/month • [email protected]: ~600 changes/month
HTML WG Status Report
1. HTML WG Timeline (Past and Future) 2. Plan 2014 3. HTML 5.0 and 5.1 Schedules 4. HTML 5.0 Candidate Recommendation 5. HTML5 Testing Task Force Status 6. Proposed Extension Specifications
HTML WG Timeline (Past)
• Apr 23: Stabilization plan and call for editors • May 3-4: HTML WG F2F meeting, Mountain View, CA (Minutes, Minutes) • May 13-15: AC meeting, Sophia Antipolis • Jun 27: Technical editor position announced • Jul 24: Adobe, Google and Microsoft sponsorship announced to AC • Jul 25: HTML5 editorial team announced – Travis Leithead, Erika Doyle Navara, Ted O'Connor, Silvia Pfeiffer • Aug 2: Canvas editorial team announced – Rik Cabanier, Eliot Graff, Jay Munro, Tom Wiltzius • Sep 4: Technical editor announced – Robin Berjon • Oct 8: CfC on Plan 2014 announced (WG Decision) • Oct 25: 9 HTML 5.0 heartbeat working drafts published
HTML WG Timeline (Future)
• Nov 1-2: HTML WG F2F meeting, TPAC, Lyon • Mid-November: Revised WG charter to AC for review and approval • 4Q 2012: HTML 5.0 Candidate Recommendation • 4Q 2012: HTML 5.1 Working Drafts • Apr 2013: HTML WG F2F meeting, Silicon Valley, CA (details to be finalized)
Plan 2014
• Goal: How to get HTML5 to Rec in 2014? • Plan 2014 proposes how to get there: – Charter timeline revisions: • HTML 5.0 REC: 2014Q4 • Add HTML 5.1 for further feature development – Permissive CR exit criteria to focus testing – Modularity • Address remaining open issues via extension specs • Provide opportunity for extension specs to merge back
Other Plan 2014 changes
• WG Decision Policy changes • Update WG Charter liaison section • HTML5 specification status section changes • Propose a lead test manager team role • Accessibility Task Force changes – Allow the Task force to propose and/or take ownership of documents such as extension specs
HTML 5.0 and 5.1 schedules
• HTML 5.0 milestones: 1. CR: 2012 Q4 2. LCf: 2014 Q3 3. PR: 2014 Q4 4. Rec: 2014 Q4 • HTML 5.1 milestones: 1. FPWD: 2012 Q4 2. LC: 2014 Q3 3. CR: 2015 Q1 4. Rec: 2016 Q4
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 HTML 5.0 CR start … CR … LCf, Rec HTML 5.1 FPWD WD LC CR … Rec HTML 5.0 Candidate Recommendation
• HTML 5.0 CR due in Q4 2012: – Candidate Recommendation Exit Criteria – HTML 5.0 Formal Objections – Features at risk (draft list) – CR drafts (under preparation by editors) – Draft implementation report: • which of the features have been implemented in browsers and in which browsers • how stable each feature is • what the level of interoperability for each feature is
HTML5 Testing Task Force Status Tests Suite has 11,907 tests with consensus are correct and valid
audio atob/btoa New Contributors Since TPAC 2011 – Infraware canvas data-* – Mosquito document.write editing – Html5Bidi events MathML parsing – MathiasBynes Named Char Ref SVG in HTML – Intel parsing video – Baidu video XHTML5
[email protected] remains steady (~16 posts /month) New Testing Activity http://testthewebforward.org included HTML5
Proposed extension specifications
• HTML WG – Encrypted Media Extensions – Media Source Extensions – picture element – srcset attribute – subline element – outlinemask attribute – main element • A11Y Task Force – Longer description mechanisms such as HTML5 Image Description Extension
Questions
1. HTML WG Timeline (Past and Future) 2. Plan 2014 3. HTML 5.0 and 5.1 Schedules 4. HTML 5.0 Candidate Recommendation 5. HTML5 Testing Task Force Status 6. Proposed Extension Specifications Contact information
• HTML WG Chairs – Paul Cotton [email protected] – Sam Ruby [email protected] – Maciej Stachowiak [email protected] • W3C Team – Philippe Le Hégaret [email protected] – Michael Smith [email protected] – Robin Berjon [email protected] Backup slides
HTML5 review stats
• HTML5 Pre-Last Call (before May 25 2012) – 2558 bugs • HTML5 Last Call (May 25-Aug 3 2012) – 1553 bugs • HTML5 Post Last Call (after Aug 3 2012) – 1179 bugs (138 to be processed) • Note: above stats for HTML5 core spec only