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This specification defines the 5th major version, first minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention continues to be given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
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This document was published by the Web Platform Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. Feedback and comments on this specification are welcome. Please use Github issues. Historical discussions can be found in the public-html@w3.org archives.
The entrance criteria for this document to move to Proposed Recommendation with at least two independent implementations passing each new feature. The Working Group will prepare an implementation report to track progress.
By publishing this Candidate Recommendation, W3C expects the functionality specified in this Candidate Recommendation will minimally be affected by changes to Fetch. The Working Group will continue to track the Fetch specification [FETCH] and raise issues when changes there will impact this specification.
By publishing this Candidate Recommendation, W3C expects the functionality specified in this Candidate Recommendation will not be affected by changes to Fullscreen as this specification proceeds to Recommendation. The Working Group will continue to track the Fullscreen specification [FULLSCREEN].
W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation by the developer community. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation no earlier than 19 July 2016.
Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
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This document is governed by the 1 September 2015 W3C Process Document.
The following features are at-risk, and may be dropped during the CR period:
label as a reassociatable element
datetime and datetime-local values of the type attribute
keygen element
inputmode attribute
menu element, and each enumerated value of the type attribute
menuitem element
contextmenu attribute
dialog element
registerContentHandler() and associated methods
“At-risk” is a W3C Process term-of-art, and does not necessarily imply that the feature is in danger of being dropped or delayed. It means that the WG believes the feature may have difficulty being interoperably implemented in a timely manner, and marking it as such allows the WG to drop the feature if necessary when transitioning to the Proposed Rec stage, without having to publish a new Candidate Rec without the feature first.