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Bug 19756 - "Further changes to WHATWG HTML that do not affect HTML5" not up to date?
Summary: "Further changes to WHATWG HTML that do not affect HTML5" not up to date?
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 differences from HTML4 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Simon Pieters
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-10-29 13:41 UTC by Stefan Götz
Modified: 2013-05-02 21:54 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Götz 2012-10-29 13:41:57 UTC
In the latest changelog <http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-diff-20121025/#changes-2012-03-29> there is a section titled "Further changes to WHATWG HTML that do not affect HTML5".

If I understand this correctly, it means that the listed changes only apply to <http://whatwg.org/html>, and not to <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/> (including or excluding the separated specifications, e.g. for microdata?).

Now, this section lists:
> The document outline algorithm now ignores elements with the hidden attribute.

However, this change seems to be noted in <http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20121025/headings-and-sections.html#outlines> (while it was not in <http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20120329/headings-and-sections.html#outlines>).

Another change notice:
> Dialogs are now supported with the dialog element, the inert global attribute and the dialog method on form. 

But the dialog element is specified in the current Working Draft: 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20121025/commands.html#the-dialog-element>


I wanted to check whether it is fxied in the Editor's Draft <http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/>, but the latest one is from 2012-10-05, while the latest Working Draft is from 2012-10-25 <http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-diff-20121025/>.
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2012-10-29 16:32:52 UTC
This is a result of the HTML WG being about a month too late to publish. The drafts were supposed to be ready on 15 September and then frozen until publication around 30 September. I complied to that with html5-diff [1], but the editors of the HTML5 spec did not. That said, I'm happy to fix the mismatch of this changelog of publication for the next publication.

[1] http://www.w3.org/mid/op.wkmqldryidj3kv@device-23f190
Comment 2 Simon Pieters 2013-05-02 21:54:53 UTC
Actually I see little point in fixing this now, especially since publications of this document doesn't line up with "HTML5" anymore.