WHATWG

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ) is a working group whose objective is to develop, through expansion of existing technologies new technologies that should facilitate authors to create Internet applications. Unlike the vendor-neutral World Wide Web Consortium (W3C ), which is led by Tim Berners -Lee, WHATWG is operated by several companies, including Mozilla Foundation, Opera Software ASA and Apple Inc.

The establishment of the WHATWG was in response to the sluggish development of Web standards by the W3C. The WHATWG mailing list was announced on 4 June 2004. Opera / Mozilla had two days earlier tried in vain at the W3C workshop to adopt a common position paper, but were overruled by the members of the W3C. Participation in the mailing list is open to everyone, and take it, members of the W3C participate. However, the WHATWG does not set the W3C overridden because the proposed standards, which are created by the WHATWG, be submitted to the W3C for approval or amendment. Future plans to WHATWG, work even more closely with the W3C.

Specifications

Currently, three draft specifications are:

  • HTML ( HTML5 originally, before Web Applications 1.0 ), which defines extensible widgets, such as menus and toolbars. This design was adopted as the basis for a new version of HTML and W3C is actively developed. On 19 January 2011 the "5" was dropped from the label to show that the development of HTML is constantly in flux.
  • Web Forms 2.0, which is aimed at the general needs of Web authors. Also a version of Web Forms 2 It was released on W3C. Web Forms 2 has now been integrated into HTML5.
  • Web Controls 1.0, which to JavaScript and CSS adds more functionality, thereby creating self-created widgets should be supported. This specification depends on the design of XBL2.

In contrast to the W3C XForms these specifications are intended primarily to work on HTML. Because of the orientation of browser implementations of HTML HTML5 is not based on SGML, but on their own Parseregeln; however, the largely equivalent XHTML5 follows the XML syntax.

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