HTML WG Surveys

Surveys are a working group tool to aid information gathering (non binding straw polls) and if needed decision making (voting).

HTML 5 WG Decision Policy states, "...if a decision is necessary for timely progress, but after due consideration of different opinions, consensus is not achieved, the Chair should put a question (allowing for remote, asynchronous participation using, for example, email and/or web-based survey techniques) and record a decision and any objections, and consider the matter resolved, at least until new information becomes available..."

• W3C Consensus Definition
• W3C Voting Policy

Also see HTML Accessibility Task Force Surveys.

The results of the following surveys do not require authentication and are available to anyone (except as noted *).

2012

• ISSUE-204: How to exempt ARIA attributes from the rule that prohibits reference to hidden elements? - Straw Poll for Objections - July 26 to August 3, 2012.
• ISSUE-194: How to provide a mechanism for associating a full transcript with an audio or video element? - July 11-26, 2012.
• ISSUE-189: Should HTML5 assign a special meaning to the prefix "web+"? - Straw Poll for Objections - July 6-19, 2012.
• ISSUE-200: Should LEGEND be allowed to be wrapped in non-FIELDSET elements - Straw Poll for Objections - July 3-19, 2012.
• ISSUE-185b: Add moddate - Straw Poll for Objections - June 13-21, 2012.
• ISSUE-185a: Drop pubdate - Straw Poll for Objections - June 13-21, 2012.
• ISSUE-184: Add a data element - Straw Poll for Objections - June 12-21, 2012.
• ISSUE-205: Define what author guidance and/or methods should be provided to those that wish to create accessible text editors using canvas as a rendering surface - Straw Poll for Objections - May 29 to June 7.
• Selection of day and time for weekly HTML WG Media teleconference
• ISSUE-158: HTML4's content-model for "object" should continue - Straw Poll for Objections - March 29 to April 6.
• Registration for the WebApps, HTML, and WebAppsSec F2F meetings * Survey results available to W3C members only

2011

• HTML5 Last Call: Should the HTML5 specifications be published at Last Call Working Drafts? - May 15 to May 22.
• HTML5 license: Which license should be used for the W3C HTML5 specifications? - Preference Poll - April 28 to May 5.
• ISSUE-31/80: What to do about validation when the image element is missing the alt attribute - Straw Poll for Objections A - March 29 to April 5.
• ISSUE-31/80: What text should be used for the img element definition - Straw Poll for Objections B - March 29 to April 5.
• ISSUE-31/80: Text Alternative Examples - Straw Poll for Objections C - March 29 to April 5.
• ISSUE-147: undefined behavior when the user agent can't play back at the requested rate - Straw Poll for Objections A - March 27 to April 5.
• ISSUE-155: table-border Straw Poll for Objections- March 27 to April 4.
• ISSUE-144: conforming-u Straw Poll for Objections- March 27 to April 4.
• ISSUE-131: caret-location-API Straw Poll for Objections- March 24 to 31.
• ISSUE-148: charset-detect Straw Poll for Objections- March 18 to 24.
• ISSUE-32: table-summary Straw Poll for Objections- March 20 to 28.
• ISSUE-27: rel-ownership Straw Poll for Objections- March 18 to 24.
• ISSUE-31: missing-alt and ISSUE-80: title-alternative Straw Poll for Objections - March 21 to 24.
• ISSUE-122: shalott-example Straw Poll for Objections - March 18 to 24.
• ISSUE-142: poster-alt - Straw Poll for Objections - March 10 to 17.
• ISSUE-140: conformance-terminology - Straw Poll for Objections - March 10 to 17.
• ISSUE-139: ack-microdata - Straw Poll for Objections - March 10 to 17.
• ISSUE-120: rdfa-prefixes - Straw Poll for Objections - March 10 to 17
• ISSUE-127: link-type-flags - Straw Poll for Objections - March 4 to 11.
• ISSUE-56: urls-webarch - Straw Poll for Objections - March 4 to 11.
• ISSUE-130: Allow tables to be used for presentational purposes - Straw Poll for Objections - February 20 to 28.
• ISSUE-125: Requirement to break RFC 2616 compliance - Straw Poll for Objections - February 20 to 28.
• ISSUE-124: Allow noreferrer and nofollow on - Straw Poll for Objections - February 20 to 28.
• ISSUE-129: replace or modify the ARIA section of the HTML5 spec - Straw Poll for Objections - February 2 to 17.

2010

• ISSUE-118 Specification breaks semantics of existing link relations "index" and "first" - Straw Poll for Objections - December 8 to 16.
• ISSUE-128: Authors should be able to use where can be used - Straw Poll for Objections - December 1 to 8.
• ISSUE-74: canvas-accessibility and ISSUE-105 canvas-usemap - Straw Poll for Objections - October 13 to 21.
• ISSUE-89: Remove Section 4.13 Common Idioms without dedicated Elements - Straw Poll for Objections - October 5 to 13.
• ISSUE-92: Re-write the Table section to remove extraneous material, and provide cleaner description - Straw Poll for Objections - September 28 to October 6.
• ISSUE-103: XML escaping in iframe/@srcdoc - Straw Poll for Objections - September 22 to 29.
• ISSUE-41: Decentralized-extensibility - Straw Poll for Objections - September 22 to 29.
• ISSUE-100: Removing the srcdoc attribute Straw Poll for Objections - August 4 to 11
• ISSUE-4 and ISSUE-84: HTML5 versioning and doctypes - Straw Poll for Objections - July 22-30
• ISSUE-101: Spec reference for US-ASCII - Straw Poll for Objections - July 22 to 30.
• ISSUE-30: longdesc - Straw Poll for Objections - June 24 to July 2.
• ISSUE-88: content-language-multiple - Straw Poll for Objections - June 24 to 30.
• ISSUE-66: Image Analysis Heuristics - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.
• ISSUE-90: Removing the figure Element - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.
• ISSUE-91: Removing the aside Element - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.
• ISSUE-93: Removing the details Element - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.
• ISSUE-95: Removing the hidden Attribute - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.
• ISSUE-96: Removing the progress Element - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.
• ISSUE-97: Removing the meter Element - Straw Poll for Objections - May 12 to 19.

2009

• ISSUE-76 - Microdata - Straw Poll for Objections December 10 to 17.
• Publish HTML 5 update with or without warnings? August 10 to 17.

2008

• Request for Input on organizing accessibility API binding work in PFWG and HTML WG Open November 28 to December 10
• Attendance and room sharing at the W3C TPAC in Mandelieu, France open until September 5, 2008. (requires authentication *)
• Web Forms Features July 3 to 10. (requires authentication *)
• Release update of "HTML 5" specification as a W3C Working Draft? May 16 to 26.
• Release "HTML 5" specification as a W3C Working Draft? January 9 to 16.

2007

• Accept requirement for immediate mode graphics a la canvas element? November 16 to 29.
• How should work on the canvas element and immediate mode graphics API proceed? November 16 to 28.
• Release "HTML 5" specification as a W3C Working Draft? November 2 to 9.
• Review of HTML Design Principles August 16 to 23.
• Release "HTML 5 differences from HTML 4" as a W3C Working Draft? June 26 to July 03.
• Registration for the F2F meeting of the HTML Working Group (2007-07-31/2007-08-02 in Mountain View, CA, USA) June 15 to 29.
• What should the HTML WG publish first? June 1 to October 25.
• Shall we Adopt HTML5 as our specification text for review? April 27 to May 4.
• HTML WG tasks April 24, 2007 to December 31, 2009.
• 26 Apr HTML WG Teleconference April 18 to 26.
• Finding a time for a weekly teleconference of the HTML Working Group March 29 to April 5.
• Face to face meeting call for interest March 13 to 23.

Other Survey Listings

The following listings require authentication. *

• Open surveys for HTML Working Group *
• Closed surveys for HTML Working Group *
• All surveys for HTML Working Group *

HTML Accessibility Task Force Surveys

• HTML Accessibility Task Force Surveys