W3C HTML WG Meeting, 8- 10 Nov 2007

Hyatt Regency Cambridge
575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA (USA) 02139-4896
+1-617-492-1234

The tasks survey is a good way to introduce yourself to fellow Working Group participants. PeopleLocation in the wiki has some photos.

Responses to formal proposals were due Friday, 9 November:

  • Release "HTML Design Principles" as a W3C Working Draft?
  • Release "HTML 5" specification as a W3C Working Draft?

Ready reference:

  • HTML WG home
  • HTML WG charter of March 2007
  • public-html archive
  • tracker for HTML WG

The W3C Technical Plenary Day includes sessions on "Future Formats: HTML5 and XHTML2", "Openness of Working Groups", etc.

Our meeting is part of the 2007 W3C Technical Plenary Week; it was called in a 31 Aug announcement.

For the organizers: list of registrants .

Agenda/Summary

Thu, 8 Nov

See also 8 Nov IRC log.

  1. attendees at meeting table meeting attendees and screen Welcome/Convene
  2. W3C process Q&A, Dan Connolly
  3. ARIA demo
  4. Data Tables, Ben Millard
  5. Demo: HTML+CSS as Flash Killer by Maciej Stachowiak
  6. unconference scheduling whiteboard Unconference pitches
    see HTML meeting page in the ESW wiki for the results
  7. Media Elements
  8. Writing Tests: Hands on session

Fri, 9 Nov

unconference scheduling whiteboard See also HTML meeting page in the ESW wiki, 9 Nov IRC log.

  • Story telling and test cases
  • Organising tests
  • Annotating the spec: Hands on session
  • Validator Tests
  • break: HTML Working Group had informal jamming session!
  • Offline support @@records?
  • I18N and encodings @@records?
  • Versioning
  • Data Tables @@records?
  • HTML5 for Authors
  • TESTS: Licensing, hosting, etc. @@records?
  • hacking html5lib; hands on @@notes?

Sat, 10 Nov

  1. ARIA in HTML5
  2. HTML 5 charter, scope, and requirements issues
  3. rel= ownership
  4. Canvas and immediate mode graphics API
  5. Update on proposals to publish HTML Design Principles, HTML 5 specification
  6. Offline applications and data synchronization
  7. Thanks to organizers and participants

Thanks to Sponsors

In addition BEA, Cisco, IBM, and Nokia, the sponsors of the W3C Technical Plenary meeting week, travel to this HTML WG meeting for some participants is sponsored by the following W3C member organizations:

  • Google
    • Joshue O Connor
    • Ben 'Cerbera' Millard

      See HTMLWG Meeting, November 2007 for his account of the experience.

    • James Graham

This sponsorship information is provided in case anyone considers travel expenses "significant" in the sense of section 3.1.1 Conflict of Interest Policy in the W3C Process Document.

Dan Connolly, HTML Working Group co-chair
Chris Wilson, Microsoft, co-chair
Karl Dubost, HTML Working Group staff
questions to connolly@w3.org,karl@w3.org,Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com,www-archive@w3.org please. Note public archive
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