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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.

Contents 1 HTML WG Surveys 1.1 2012 1.2 2011 1.3 2010 1.4 2009 1.5 2008 1.6 2007 1.7 Other Survey Listings 1.7.1 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