New Living Standards

The last time we introduced a new Living Standard was Infra, in 2016. This year has seen a flurry of activity, with four new standards joining the WHATWG! The Web IDL Standard defines the interface language and JavaScript mapping for all web platform ... more

Newline normalizations in form submission

If you work with form submissions, you might have noticed that form values containing newlines are normalized to CRLF, no matter whether the DOM value had LF or CR instead: <form action="./post" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"> ... more

Focusing on focus

Focus behavior in HTML had been under-specified for the past few years, and it was also quite confusing due to a variety of subtle differences between focusing methods, UA-specific behaviors, relation to the tabindex attribute, relations to shadow DOM, ... more

Focusing on focus

Focus behavior in HTML had been under-specified for the past few years, and it was also quite confusing due to a variety of subtle differences between focusing methods, UA-specific behaviors, relation to the tabindex attribute, relations to shadow DOM, ... more

Progressing Streams

Back in 2014 we announced the Streams Standard. It's about time for an update on where we are and what's coming up. Streaming the response to fetch() via the response.body attribute was standardized last year and is now implemented in several major browsers. ... more

Progressing Streams

Back in 2014 we announced the Streams Standard. It's about time for an update on where we are and what's coming up. Streaming the response to fetch() via the response.body attribute was standardized last year and is now implemented in several major browsers. ... more

HTML and shared memory

You’d think that the HTML Standard would be pretty far removed from shared memory considerations, but as it happens HTML defines a parser for HTML which is intertwined with script execution, defines a way to instantiate new global objects through the ... more

Sunsetting the JavaScript Standard

Back in 2012, the WHATWG set out to document the differences between the ECMAScript 5.1 specification and the compatibility and interoperability requirements for ECMAScript implementations in web browsers. A specification draft was first published under ... more

Defining the WindowProxy, Window, and Location objects

The HTML Standard defines how navigation works inside a browser tab, how JavaScript executes, what the overarching web security model is, and how all these intertwine and work together. Over the last decade, we’ve made immense progress in specifying ... more

Adding JavaScript modules to the web platform

One thing we’ve been meaning to do more of is tell our blog readers more about new features we’ve been working on across WHATWG standards. We have quite a backlog of exciting things that have happened, and I’ve been nominated to start off by telling ... more

HTML Standard now more community-driven

It’s been several months now since maintenance of the HTML Standard moved from a mostly-private Subversion repository to the whatwg/html GitHub repository. This move has been even more successful than we hoped: We now have thirty-seven contributors who ... more