HTML Working Group Update

Advisory Committee Meeting, 16 May 2011

Paul Cotton and Sam Ruby

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

As of May 16:

May 24	Publication of 6 Last Call Working Drafts and 3 companion Working Drafts
May 24-Aug 2 (10 weeks)	Last Call review period
September 27	All Last Call bugs filed by cutoff date addressed by editors
October 11	Cutoff for escalating bugs for Last Call consideration
November 8	Every Last Call issue has at least one Change Proposal
December 6	All calls for counter-proposals complete
January 17, 2012	All issues resolved; next step resolution presented to group
January 31, 2012	Fixable objections addressed; next step resolution

The HTML5 testing effort is making some progress thanks to Microsoft, Opera and others.
We have implementation results for 925 tests and currently 1276 approved test cases.
28,858 test have been submitted including ~8,000 are parser tests and another ~18,000 are for testing attribute reflection
We need:
1. More tests to ensure better coverage of the HTML5 specifications.
2. User agents to give updated results on the larger testsuite
3. People to get involved!
See also Web Testing Interest Group (Advance Notice).
Results of HTML WG survey on HTML5 license