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This page lists errata and substantive changes made to the editor's draft of the HTML5 specification after publication of the HTML5 First Public Working Draft (FPWD) at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/


Substantive changes

This section lists substantive changes made to the HTML5 editor's draft after FPWD publication.

4.12. Links

The following changes were made to the Links section after FPWD publication.

4.12.2.1. Hyperlink auditing, requests must not include a Referer HTTP header, etc.

(r1170, r1.362) The 4.12.2.1. Hyperlink auditing section of the specification states requirements for HTTP-request behavior when a user follows a hyperlink for an <a> or <area> hyperlink element that has a ping attribute.

The third paragraph in that section was changed to read (emphasis added):

 For URIs that are HTTP URIs, the requests must be performed using the POST method (with an empty entity body in the request). The requests must not include a Referer HTTP header, cookies, or HTTP authentication headers.

The reason for the change was to fix a potential security flaw related to the ping attribute. For details, see the Referer header sent with <a ping>? thread on the WHATWG mailing list.

3.14.11.1.5. Line styles (2D Context section)

The Line styles subsection of the


Errata

This section lists errors in the HTML5 FPWD that have since been corrected.

3.13. Edits, second example

(r1169, r1.360) The second example in 3.13. Edits is not correct. The example should be:

<section>
 This is the first paragraph. <ins>This sentence was
 inserted.
 <p>This second paragraph was inserted.</p>
 This sentence was inserted too.</ins> This is the
 third paragraph in this example.
</section>