Recommended Reading

Foundational Documents

People often talk about these off the top of their heads, without having ever read them. And then are surprised when things don't work the way they expect them to.

• W3C Process
• Patent Policy
• Charter

QA Documents

A large array of great documents can be found in the QA Library, but the busy reader may want to read only some of the core ones:

• QA Handbook
• Specification Guidelines
• Variability in Specifications
• Test Development FAQ
• Matrix of many W3C Test Suites
• RFC Keywords

Core Specifications

• HTML5
• SVG 1.1 and SVG Tiny 1.2
• WebIDL
• ECMA-262 edition 3
• DOM level 3 Core
• DOM level 3 Events

Related APIs

• Geolocation
• XHR
• File API
• Web Storage
• Web Database
• Web Workers
• Web Sockets

Miscellaneous

• Architecture of the World Wide Web, volume 1

Select Contributed Inputs

• 1.01 BONDI Architecture and Security (1.0)