Group of workers
The
HTML Working Group
was an
Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF)
working group
from 1994 to 1996, and a
World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) working group from 1997 to 2015.
[1]
The working group was co-chaired by
Paul Cotton
,
Sam Ruby
, and
Maciej Stachowiak
.
Members
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Members of the HTML Working Group included representatives from the following organizations:
W3C had also invited several experts to collaborate with the working group including:
Internal working system
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The HTMLWG had members from a diverse community such as content providers, content authors, and anyone interested in the work on HTML.
Participation
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To participate in the group, the steps involved having a W3C account and filling out a form for copyright, content etc. policies. Steps are different for people who are affiliated with W3C Member organization and those who are not.
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Communication methods
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- Mailing lists (used to organize activities such as task-force discussions and working-group administrative purposes)
- HTML-WG Channel (for weekly telcons and informal discussions)
Meetings
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- Weekly telcons (On Thursday and Tuesday)
- Face-to-face (twice a year, and the latest one was held in
San Jose
, on April 8?9, 2014)
[1]
See
HTML/wg/WorkMode
for more details about the way a member can participate in, responsibilities of Editor, various types of meetings that members can attend, etc.
Interest Groups
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To encourage broad participation, three locale-based interest groups were set up: the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Interest Groups. The
HTML5 Chinese Interest Group
had over 1000 members.
History
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The creation of an HTML Working Group was first proposed at the 30th
Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) meeting in Toronto, on 26 July 1994.
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The Group was founded with the adoption of its charter in September 1994
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and was chaired by
Eric Sink
.
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The IETF HTML Working Group oversaw the creation and publication of RFC 1866 in November 1995, the document which defines HTML 2.0. The Group also published RCF 1942 in May 1996, a document which provides an experimental description of an extended set of HTML tables.
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The IETF Group was dissolved in September 1996.
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Change in working direction
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In 1999, W3C released HTML 4.01 and then stopped continuing the evolution of HTML, as the W3C's HTMLWG announced it would change their direction to exploitation of XML-based version of HTML (named XHTML 2.0), which has a stricter standard.
The traditional version of HTML allowed uncertainties in
code review
, which means even there are some mistakes in the web pages, browser will still display the contents through
error detection and correction
. "
Nowadays, there would be at least one mistake existing in over 99% HTML web pages.
" estimated by the Google senior programmer
Mark Pilgrim
.
[7]
The W3C HTMLWG hoped to boost a more regulated development of the future of the Internet through rigorous standards. While the popularization and application of
XHTML
had not received many responses from the public.
Collaboration
Messenger 1
In 2004,
Mozilla
and
Opera
put forward a plan based on HTML 4, as they wanted to continue the evolution of HTML. The plan was not passed. Then they decided to form
WHATWG
, in order to pursue the future of HTML along with W3C’S HTMLWG but in different direction.
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In 2006, WHATWG made a breakthrough while XHTML 2.0 was still impractical. As a result,
Tim Berners-Lee
, the inventor of W3C announced that the W3C's HTMLWG would stop to jointly develop HTML5 with WHATWG.
Ian Hickson
was responsible for both editing the two groups' specifications.
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In October 2009, W3C dismissed the XHTML 2 group.
Split
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In July 2012, W3C's
HTMLWG
and
WHATWG
officially parted ways about working on HTML5. WHATWG evolved
HTML5
and W3C worked on a more static
"snapshot"
. Therefore, there are two versions of HTML5 - one is a
"living standard"
and the other one is
"snapshots"
. The split between two bodies was due to conflicts.
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Regarding fears of this split from the public, then head of WHATWG, Ian Hickson said the split would not be as harmful as people thought.
"It's certainly possible that the specs will fork, but it's unlikely, or at least, unlikely to happen in a way that is harmful."
In his opinion, possible conflicts will lead to a more precise standard. And
"Browser vendors will just know to use the more precise one."
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Differences between WHATWG and HTMLWG
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WHATWG maintains a
living standard
and stopped using version numbers. W3C's HTMLWG leaves the WHATWG spec in order to stick producing
snapshots
.
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See also
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About the HTMLWG
, a brief summary of HTMLWG.
References
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a
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Cotton, Paul; Ruby, Sam; Stachiowak, Maciej; Smith, Michael; Berjon, Robin (2014-10-10).
"W3C HTML Working Group"
.
W3C
. Archived from
the original
on 2015-10-02
. Retrieved
2018-04-03
.
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"How YOU can join the W3C HTML5 Working Group in 4 easy steps"
.
the paciello group
. Steve Faulkner. 2 December 2011
. Retrieved
2 December
2011
.
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Berners-Lee, Tim (1994-07-26),
IETF HTML BOF Minutes 26 July 1994
, W3c
, retrieved
2018-04-02
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Raggett, Dave (1998).
"A history of HTML"
.
Raggett on HTML
. Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman
. Retrieved
2018-04-02
.
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a
b
Connolly, Dan (2000-01-31).
"IETF HTML Working Group"
.
W3C
. Retrieved
2018-04-03
.
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a
b
Hoffmann, Markus; Beaumont, Leland R. (2005).
Content Networking: Architecture, Protocols, and Practice
. Elsevier. p. 294.
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a
b
Guan, Wang.
"HTML5:正在?生的未?"
.
China Economic Herald
. IT?理世界
. Retrieved
13 November
2012
.
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"The Difference Between the WHATWG and the HTMLWG"
.
WebMonkey
. Archived from
the original
on 18 February 2011.
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"HTML is the new HTML5"
.
the WHATWG blog
. Ian Hickson
. Retrieved
19 January
2011
.
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"W3C and WHATWG finalize split on HTML5 spec, forking 'unlikely'
"
.
The Verge
. Jeff Blagdon. 22 July 2012
. Retrieved
22 July
2012
.
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"HTML5 Work Splits Into 'Living' And 'Snapshot' Standards. Developers Need Not Worry, Says Living Standard Leader"
.
techcrunch
. Ingrid Lunden (@ingridlunden). 22 July 2012
. Retrieved
22 July
2012
.
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"HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to Interoperability Testing and Performance"
.
semanticweb
. Eric Franzon
. Retrieved
17 December
2012
.
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