HTML Working Group Update

Advisory Board Meeting, 23 February 2011

Philippe Le Hégaret

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HTML Working Group

(from IPP)

October 1	Cutoff for bugs to be considered as pre-LC feedback, enhanced change control
December 8	All bugs filed by cutoff date addressed by editors
January 22	Cutoff for escalating bugs for pre-LC consideration
February 23	Every issue has at least one Change Proposal
March 22	All calls for counter-proposals complete
April 22	All issues resolved; LC resolution presented to group
May 22	Fixable LC objections addressed; LC resolution

~380 emails/month on public-html, and ~270 emails/month on public-html-a11y
6 issues closed since November 1st, including issue-41 decentralized extensibility.
40 open issues for pre-LC, 6 for Last Call
Charter extension end of 2014. Target Recommendation by Q2 2014.

As of February 21:

6 issues needs to have at least one proposal by February 23
40 unresolved issues for pre-LC
Pending chair decisions on 9 issues. 8 issues are ready for survey.
See also Sam's status page
Decision policy: 12 open bugs, including defining procedure for entering Last Call and the most recent HTML/CSS (lack of) coordination.

Waiting for proposals:

Waiting on review of the proposals:

ISSUE-31 missing-alt: What to do when a reasonable text equivalent is unknown/unavailable?
ISSUE-80 title-alternative:Document conformance and device dependent display of title attribute content.

Waiting on decision:

The importance of HTML5 has an uprising technology is increasing (talks, industries, etc.)
W3C needs to revamp the HTML part of the site and make it a portal for a more general (including non-technical) audience
The testing effort, while still not well attended, is slowly taking off (thanks to Microsoft and Opera). We have first implementation results for 215 tests. Around 600+ tests are in the pipeline for approval (mainly around canvas). We need:
1. More tests. A lot more tests!
2. User agents to give updated results on the larger testsuite
3. People to get involved!
See also final recommendation on testing from the approved for funding from W3C 2011 Budget.
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