The HTML Working Group has a decision policy for resolving issues and recording working-group decisions. Below is a listing of all the working-group decisions that the group has made.
- 2013-04-09: media-source-extensions-spec
- 2013-04-02: drop-hgroup
- 2013-03-07: longdesc-spec
- 2013-02-14: xhtml-entities-spec
- 2013-02-14: srcset-spec
- 2013-02-14: picture-spec
- 2013-02-14: responsive-image-use-cases
- 2013-01-26: microdata-CR-spec
- 2013-01-26: microdata-rec-track
- 2013-01-09: aria-in-html-spec
- 2012-12-06: html-5.1-spec
- 2012-12-06: canvas2d-CR-spec
- 2012-11-27: html5-CR-spec
- 2012-11-27: main-element
- 2012-10-16: adopt-plan-2014
- 2012-08-31: drop-meta-generator
- 2012-08-31: caret-location-api
- 2012-08-31: canvas-fallback
- 2012-08-13: aria-hidden
- 2012-08-05: uri-prefix
- 2012-07-31: object-content-model
- 2012-07-31: enhance-time
- 2012-07-19: aria-processing
- 2012-07-18: caret-location-api
- 2012-07-17: data-element
- 2012-05-09: dom-parsing-reference
- 2012-03-30: accept-file-ext
- 2012-03-30: ua-http-resp-handling
- 2012-03-30: title-alternative
- 2012-03-20: inaccessible-example
- 2012-03-26: coding-example
- 2012-03-20: title-attribute
- 2012-03-20: generic-track-format
- 2012-03-20: validity-stability
- 2012-03-20: footnote-recommendation
- 2012-03-20: av_param
- 2012-03-07: time syntax
- 2012-02-07: ietf-id-wip
- 2011-05-24: 6 Documents proceed to Last Call (objection responses)
- 2011-04-18: Provide detailed instructions and examples for the
altandtitleattributes to all readers of the HTML specification - 2011-04-18: Adopt revised text for the first two paragraphs of the
imgelement definition - 2011-04-18: The presence of
aria-labelledby,role=presentationor use of private communications does not, in itself, make missingaltconforming. The presence ofmetaname=generator,title, andfigcaptiondoes make missingaltconforming - 2011-04-13: Enable all users to distinguish the cells of a table
- 2011-04-11: Modify existing Canvas 2D API caret and focus ring support to drive screen magnification with two specific exclusions (selection of diff)
- 2011-04-08: Consider the inability to play at a given playback rate a hardware limitation and don't expose it via a dedicated API
- 2011-04-08: Define the
uelement as conforming - 2011-04-08: Defer to the Microformats community for cataloging HTML rel values
- 2011-04-05: Drop the
summary="" attribute (in favor of thearia-describedbyattribute) - 2011-04-02: Add a link to the HTML to platform accessibility API implementation guide
- 2011-03-31: Clarify that
application/octet-streamshould be treated just like any other MIME type - 2011-03-29: The
videoposteris conceptually part of the media resource itself. Any short text alternative should apply to the resource as a whole, not just the poster image. - 2011-03-29: Move advice about providing
alttext for "purely decorative images" out of the HTML5 spec - 2011-03-29: Clarify how prefixes work in RDFa, and document that they're an optional feature
- 2011-03-24: Move the acknowledgement of the microdata usability study from the W3C HTML5 spec into the Microdata spec
- 2011-03-24: Reserve the term "conforming HTML5 document" for documents that conform to the HTML5 specification itself (i.e., no applicable specs)
- 2011-03-24: Not to require backslashes to be processed as escapes in
Content-Typeheaders inmetaelements - 2011-03-20: Provide a direct link to the W3C
canvas2d context spec - 2011-03-19: Allow attributes on
linkandaelements to have different effects - 2011-03-19: Don't permit
noreferrerandnofollowasrelattribute values onlinkelements - 2011-03-19: Retain
progresselement - 2011-03-19: Make
Content-Languagepragma non-conforming - 2011-03-19: Explain within the HTML5 spec how to translate input strings contained in text/html documents into URIs
- 2011-03-15: Treat
figureas being equivalent toporaside - 2011-03-15: Change the note after "algorithm for extracting an encoding from a Content-Type" to not mention HTTP
- 2011-03-15: Use RFC 135 as the reference for ASCII character set in terms of Unicode code points
- 2011-03-11: replace
<videoauto=muted>with<videomuted> - 2011-03-10: Make
role="presentation" on thetableelement conforming - 2011-03-10: Move a
tableexample to a separate section - 2011-03-07: Adopt the "Change the title of the WAI-ARIA section of the HTML5 spec and provide advice about ARIA scope" Change Proposal
- 2011-02-28: Adopt the ARIA in HTML5: change some
rolemappings Proposal (with a number of specific exclusions) - 2011-02-28: Drop support for
rel="" values - 2011-02-22: Retain Common Idioms section
- 2011-02-03: Don't provide an explicit means for others to define custom elements and attributes within HTML markup
- 2010-12-14: Don't add
nonavattribute, don't add image maps as alternative, keep navigable canvas DOM - 2010-12-14: Don't put a versioning indicator in the
DOCTYPE - 2010-12-07: Retain
meterelement - 2010-10-13: Retain
srcdocattribute - 2010-10-13: Document XML escaping requirements for the
srcdocattribute - 2010-08-11: Don't include the
longdescattribute in the language (reopened) - 2010-07-20: Keep
hiddenattribute - 2010-06-01: Keep
asideelement - 2010-06-01: Keep
figureelement - 2010-06-01: Remove image-analysis heuristics
- 2010-06-01: Remove Atom conversion
- 2010-03-11: Make
meta/@name="keywords"conforming - 2010-03-04: Remove
pingattribute from HTML5 - 2010-03-04: Don't include
profileattribute on theheadelement - 2010-01-07: Separate Microdata from HTML5 Specification
- 2009-11-19: Adopt Proposed Decision Policy
- 2008-05-27: Release Offline Web Applications intro/tutorial as a W3C Working Group Note
- 2008-01-18: Release HTML5 specification as a W3C First Public Working Draft
- 2007-12-06: Accept requirement for immediate-mode graphics a la canvas element
- 2007-11-16: Release HTML Design Principles as a W3C First Public Working Draft
- 2007-05-09: Adopt HTML5 draft as our specification text for review, use “HTML5” as the name of the spec, confirm Ian Hickson as David Hyatt as the editors of the spec