First round Reviews of HTML5 draft

The HTML Working Group has a number of volunteers to review a few sections of the HTML 5 spec in detail. This is an index of reviews by spec section, in hopes of showing that each section was reviewed by at least a couple HTML WG members.

How to make a review

See also HTML issues list etc.

• Overall, for comments on editorial style, markup, presentation contents, etc.
  • DraftReviews1/Overall: Overall Draft initially by Burns
• Sections and Subsections
  • Introduction
    • 1. Introduction (Lee Kowalkowski)
    • Connolly 30 Aug, keep conformance objective and a few others
• Document Object Model:
  • Pieters 9 Jul HTMLCollection...
  • 2. The Document Object Model (Lee Kowalkowski)
• Semantics and structure
  • Semantics and structure Introduction
    • Semantics and structure introduction (Draft) (review by Debi Orton)
    • 3.1. Introduction (Semantics and structure of HTML elements) (Ben Boyle)
• Common microsyntaxes
  • 3.2. Common microsyntaxes (Ben Boyle)
• Document and document fragments
  • 3.3. Documents and document fragments (Ben Boyle)
• Global attributes
  • 3.4. Global attributes (Ben Boyle)
• Interaction
  • root element
    • DraftReviews1/Root: The root element initially by Burns
    • 3.6. The root element (Ben Boyle)
    • proposed redraft of subsection
    • followup addendum to redraft
• Document metadata
  • 3.7. Document metadata (Ben Boyle)
  • 3.7.4 The link element (Julian Reschke)
  • meta refresh (3.7.5.3. Pragma directives) (Ben Boyle)
• Sections
  • 3.8. Sections (Ben Boyle)
    • 3.8.1. The body element (Ben Boyle)
    • 3.8.3. The nav element (Ben Boyle)
    • 3.8.5. The blockquote element (Ben Boyle)
    • 3.8.8. The header element (Ben Boyle)
    • 3.8.10. The address element (Ben Boyle)
• Prose
  • P element (review by RBurns)
  • BR element (review by RBurns)
• Preformatted text
  • Lists
    • Lists (review by Debi Orton)
• Phrase elements
  • A (anchor) element (review by RBurns)
  • Q, QUOTE and BLOCKQUOTE elements (review by RBurns)
    • Use-cases for proposed quotation enhancements
    • MuchAdoAboutQ: Retention and Reform of a Single QUOTE Element
    • Followups on quotations:
      • Proposal for associating quotations, attributions, citations, references and sources
      • Wikipedia example of non-URL URI discovery and "urn" and "ldap" URI schema
• CITE element (review by RBurns)
  • EM element (review by RBurns)
  • STRONG element (review by RBurns)
  • SMALL element (review by RBurns)
  • M, DEFINE, DFN, ABBR, TERM, VAR (review by RBurns)
    • 3.12.8 dfn automatic cross-referencing (Ben Boyle)
• CODE, SAMP, KBD (review by RBurns)
  • SUP and SUB (review by RBurns)
  • B and I (review by RBurns)
  • SPAN and BDO (review by RBurns)
  • TIME, METER, PROGRESS, DATA, and related (review by RBurns)
• Edits
  • Embedded content
    • The figure element
    • The img element
    • The iframe element
      • iframe@security (Ben Boyle)
  • The embed element
    • The object element
    • The video element
    • The audio element
    • Media elements
    • The source element
    • The canvas element
      • fill, stroke, clip, isPointInPath, drawImage (Philip Taylor)
      • 3.14.11. The canvas element (Ben Boyle)
  • Image maps (currently 3.14.12 through 3.14.14)
    • Content model of <map> (Simon Pieters)
      • <area> as child of <map> (Ben Boyle)
  • 3.14.13. The area element (Ben Boyle)
    • 3.14.14. Image maps (Ben Boyle)
• Tabular data
  • Tabular Data Review (review by Debi Orton)
  • TABLE, CAPTION, table groupe, TR (RBurns)
  • TD, TH, TR (RBurns)
  • presentational attributes, 2-D dimensional attribute inheritance (RBurns)
  • Reversal on content model and COL COLGROUP (RBurns)
• Forms
  • Review of the 3.16 section and the HTMLInputElement interface (Samuel Santos)
• Scripting
  • Interactive elements
  • Miscellaneous elements
    • 3.18 Miscellaneous elements (Ben Boyle)
• Web browsers
  • Links
  • Interfaces for URI manipulation
    • 4.5. Interfaces for URI manipulation (Ben Boyle)
• Navigation across documents
  • Determining the type of a new resource in a browsing context
    • Fielding 22 Aug 2007
• User prompts
  • Scripting
  • Browser state
  • Client-side session and persistent storage of name/value pairs
  • Client-side database storage
• Editing
  • Communication
  • Repetition templates
  • The HTML syntax
    • base, link and meta are never popped (hsivonen)
    • Moving <title> to head not clear "in body" (hsivonen)
    • Motivation of the generic RCDATA parsing algorithm (hsivonen)
    • in body "address" (etc.) and hn starts (hsivonen)
    • in body "select" not associated with the form pointer (hsivonen)
    • Inserting frameset (hsivonen)
    • Popping until no element with the token name in scope (hsivonen)
    • Scope, implied end tags, another scope check (hsivonen)
    • Re: Scope, implied end tags, another scope check (hsivonen)
    • Just popping when generating implied end tags (hsivonen)
    • Table-related element on the implied end tag list (hsivonen)
    • Re: Scope, implied end tags, another scope check (hsivonen)
    • Useless implied end tags upon </p> (hsivonen)
    • Non-sensical catch-all handling of end tags in "in body" (hsivonen)
    • "table" in table scope (hsivonen)
    • Detailed review of section "Namespaces" (hsivonen)
    • Generating implied end tags upon </table> "in table" (hsivonen)
    • Re: Generating implied end tags upon </table> "in table" (hsivonen)
    • Re: Table-related element on the implied end tag list (hsivonen)
    • If in one sentence qualifying another sentence when resetting the insertion mode (hsivonen)
    • insert vs. append (hsivonen)
    • Foster parenting characters (hsivonen)
    • Re: Foster parenting characters (hsivonen)
    • Two cases for end tag "br" in "in body" (hsivonen)
    • Re: in body "select" not associated with the form pointer (hsivonen)
    • Entities in RCDATA with escape flag (hsivonen)
    • Character encoding errors (hsivonen)
    • Re: Character encoding errors (hsivonen)
    • Re: XHTML2 and namespaces (part of detailed review) (hsivonen)
    • Re: Entities (part of detailed review) (hsivonen)
    • Re: Character encoding errors (hsivonen)
    • Stripping leading line feeds (Philip Taylor)
• WYSIWYG Editors
  • Enforcing the signature (MSucan)
  • Replace with visual and non-semantic editing UA chapter(s) (RBurns)
  • Suggest related chapters and features for: 1) sending, receiving and processing email; and 2) content management solutions (RBurns)
• Rendering
  • Things you can't do …