[1]W3C
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HTML5
A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML
W3C Candidate Recommendation 17 December 2012
This Version:
[2]http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/
Latest Published Version:
[3]http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Latest Editor's Draft:
[4]http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/
[4] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/
Previous Versions:
[5]http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20121025/
[6]http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20120329/
[7]http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/
[8]http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110405/
[9]http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/
[10]http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20101019/
[11]http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/
[12]http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100304/
[13]http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090825/
[14]http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090423/
[15]http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090212/
[16]http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/
[17]http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20121025/
[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html5-20120329/
[7] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/
[8] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110405/
[9] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110113/
[10] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20101019/
[11] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100624/
[12] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html5-20100304/
[13] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090825/
[14] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090423/
[15] http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-html5-20090212/
[16] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/
[17] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/
Editors:
[18]Robin Berjon, W3C
[19]Travis Leithead, Microsoft
[20]Erika Doyle Navara, Microsoft
[21]Edward O'Connor, Apple Inc.
[22]Silvia Pfeiffer
[18] http://berjon.com/
[19] mailto:travil@microsoft.com
[20] mailto:Erika.Doyle@microsoft.com
[21] mailto:eoconnor@apple.com
[22] mailto:silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com
Previous Editor:
[23]Ian Hickson, Google, Inc.
[23] mailto:ian@hixie.ch
This specification is available in the following formats:
[24]single page HTML, [25]multipage HTML, [26]web developer
edition.
[24] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html
[25] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/index.html
[26] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-author/
[27]Copyright © 2012 [28]W3C^® ([29]MIT, [30]ERCIM, [31]Keio),
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Abstract
This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core
language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help
Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on
research into prevailing authoring practices, and special
attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria
for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability.
Status of This document
This section describes the status of this document at the time
of its publication. Other documents may supersede this
document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest
revision of this technical report can be found in the [35]W3C
technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.
[35] http://www.w3.org/TR/
If you wish to make comments regarding this document in a
manner that is tracked by the W3C, please submit them via using
[36]our public bug database. If you cannot do this then you can
also e-mail feedback to [37]public-html-comments@w3.org
([38]subscribe, [39]archives), and arrangements will be made to
transpose the comments to our public bug database. All feedback
is welcome.
[36] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/enter_bug.cgi?product=HTML%20WG
[37] mailto:public-html-comments@w3.org
[38] mailto:public-html-comments-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe
[39] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comments/
The bulk of the text of this specification is also available in
the WHATWG [40]HTML Living Standard, under a license that
permits reuse of the specification text.
[40] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
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.
For this specification to exit the CR stage, the conditions
detailed in the [41]CR Exit Criteria (Public Permissive version
3) document will have to be met.
[41] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/public-permissive-exit-criteria.html
The latest stable version of the editor's draft of this
specification is always available on [42]the W3C CVS server.
There are various ways to follow the change history for this
specification:
[42] http://dev.w3.org/html5/
Browsable version-control record of all changes:
Github repository (real-time updates):
[43]https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master
CVSWeb interface (hourly updates):
[44]http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/
[43] https://github.com/w3c/html/commits/master
[44] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/
E-mail notifications of changes:
HTML-Commits mailing list (commit notifications for
dev.w3.org/html5):
[45]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-comm
its/latest
[45] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-commits/latest
This document was published by the [46]HTML Working Group as a
Candidate Recommendation. This document is intended to become a
W3C Recommendation. 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 01 September 2014. All feedback
is welcome.
[46] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
Work on this specification is also done at the [47]WHATWG. The
W3C HTML working group actively pursues convergence with the
WHATWG, as required by the [48]W3C HTML working group charter.
There are various ways to follow this work at the WHATWG:
* Commit-Watchers mailing list (complete source diffs):
[49]http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/commit-watchers-wh
atwg.org
* Annotated summary with unified diffs:
[50]http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker
* Raw Subversion interface: svn checkout
http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/
[47] http://www.whatwg.org/
[48] http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter
[49] http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/commit-watchers-whatwg.org
[50] http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker
The following features are at risk and may be removed due to
lack of implementation.
* [51]
* [52] and [53]commands API
* [54]