W3C Blog

The weekly summary of the Open Web Platform is out. A lot of discussion about HTTP. The IETF has been meeting recently in Canada. Anne Van Kesteren covers what I have not in his report.

HTML5 is still in Last Call but the last call is finishing on August 3, 2011

Conversations

Proposals

• Rich Tibbett (Opera) proposed a Local-Networked Service [Discovery and] Messaging API
• Thoughts on restricting non-bugzilla-driven spec changes during Last Call
• Aryeh Gregor published HTML Editing APIs specification which is ready for implementers feedback

Announcements

• A draft has been published for a Tracking Protection Working Group Charter and the Privacy Interest Group Charter. Comments are welcome.
• Last Call of Page Visibility API; deadline August 18
• Anne van Kesteren fixed the DOM Core Traversal specification to adjust with the new requirements.
• First Public Working Draft for the From-Origin Header specification

Hot Topics

• Henry S. Thompson reviewed the XML parsing and external entities in HTML5
• The content of the HTML/XML Task Force report is not clear enough for some participants. A discussion has been started on what should be the output and what are the difficulties.
• Geoffrey Sneddon (Opera) asked a lot of question about Window security policy.
• Robert O’Callahan (Mozilla) gave background on SVG vs canvas performance
• What is happening when a browser sends an Accept: HTTP header specifying a language that the server can’t provide? Mark Nottingham is proposing to send either a default format or a 406.
• 1xx HTTP responses are non-final. How do we clarify HTTP specification about it?
• The issue on tab states will be reopened because there is still no implementable proposal so far.
• A thread interesting to read on the correct and incorrect uses of canvas API
• How the browsers redirect on non-GET methods
• Motivate one-year limit for Expires
• Aryeh Gregor (Google) brought more use cases to the long never-ending discussion on mutation events.
• Clarification on the relationship between 401, Authorization and WWW-Authenticate in HTTP.
• If you wonder if the browsers have extension over the basic Event object, Anne van Kesteren (Opera) has created a good list.

This column is written by Karl Dubost, working in the Developer Relations & Tools at Opera Software.