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Charter

The current HTML working group charter was issued on 7 March 2007. The group is chartered to continue its work through 31 December 2010.

Milestones

This section records the schedule for HTML working-group deliverables, as well as milestones related to those deliverables.

  1. 2007-05 HTML5 and Web Forms 2.0 specs adopted as basis for review
  2. 2007-11 HTML Design Principles First Public Working Draft
  3. 2008-03 HTML5 First Public Working Draft
  4. 2008-06 HTML5 Last Call Working Draft
  5. 2008-09 HTML5 Candidate Recommendation
  6. 2010-06 HTML5 Proposed Recommendation
  7. 2010-09 HTML5 Recommendation

Note: The future dates in the above list are estimates based on the schedule in the charter and are subject to change.

Membership and Participation

The HTML working group encourages active participation from a diverse community, including content authors and content providers, web developers, implementors (of browsers, authoring tools, conformance checkers, etc.) and anyone interested in helping to evolve the HTML language. A full list of participants is available. A number of HTML working-group members answered a background experience and expertise survey.

By charter, we operate primarily by email (see public-html archive), supplemented by web-based surveys, occasional teleconferences, and up to two in-person meetings per year. Some participants supplement these with IRC discussion in the #html-wg channel on irc.w3.org (port 6665 or port 80), with public logs and an informal directory with names and timezones.

This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy. The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.

Teleconferences

Teleconferences happen some Thursdays/Fridays at alternating times; an agenda is due to public-html-wg-announce 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day or two. See agenda planning page for details.

How to join

In order to carry out the Royalty Free policy, joining the HTML Working Group involves more than typical email subscription:

When you join, you will be subscribed to public-html, the publicly archived mailing-list for the group. Please use the tasks survey to let us know a little bit about yourself and which tasks you're most interested to help with.

This process is somewhat new and novel, and the discussion around it led us to develop Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Public Invited Experts in the W3C HTML Working Group. For example: I want to participate as an individual in the HTML Working Group but I work for a W3C Member. Why can't I join as an Invited Expert?

Note that www-html, a mailing list created in 1994 to discuss HTML, is still available for discussions related to HTML but not in the scope of this Working Group.

Patent Disclosures

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.

History

This section records significant events in the history (and prehistory) of the group.

2007-11

2007-09

2007-08

2007-07

2007-06

2007-05

2007-04

2007-03

2006-12

2006-11

2006-10