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HTML is the core language of the World Wide Web. The W3C publishes HTML5, which is the fifth major revision of HTML. The WHATWG publishes HTML, which is a rough superset of HTML5. "HTML5 differences from HTML4" describes the differences of these documents from HTML4, and calls out cases where HTML is different from HTML5. This document may not provide accurate information as the specifications are still actively in development. When in doubt, always check the specifications themselves. [HTML5][HTML]
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This is the 5 October 2012 Editor's Draft produced by the HTML Working Group, part of the HTML Activity. The Working Group intends to publish this document as a Working Group Note to accompany the HTML5 specification. The appropriate forum for comments is W3C Bugzilla. (public-html-comments@w3.org, a mailing list with a public archive, is no longer used for tracking comments.)
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HTML has been in continuous evolution since it was introduced to the Internet in the early 1990s. Some features were introduced in specifications; others were introduced in software releases. In some respects, implementations and author practices have converged with each other and with specifications and standards, but in other ways, they have diverged.
HTML4 became a W3C Recommendation in 1997. While it continues to serve as a rough guide to many of the core features of HTML, it does not provide enough information to build implementations that interoperate with each other and, more importantly, with a critical mass of deployed content. The same goes for XHTML1, which defines an XML serialization for HTML4, and DOM Level 2 HTML, which defines JavaScript APIs for both HTML and XHTML. HTML5 will replace these documents. [DOM2HTML][HTML4][XHTML1]
The HTML5 draft reflects an effort, started in 2004, to study contemporary HTML implementations and deployed content. The draft:
HTML5 is still a draft. The contents of HTML5, as well as the contents of this document which depend on HTML5, are still being discussed on the HTML Working Group and WHATWG mailing lists. The open issues are linked from the HTML5 draft.
HTML5 is defined in a way that it is backwards compatible with the way user agents handle deployed content. To keep the authoring language relatively simple for authors, several elements and attributes are not included, as outlined in the other sections of this document, such as presentational elements that are better dealt with using CSS.
User agents, however, will always have to support these older elements and attributes and this is why the HTML5 specification clearly separates requirements for authors and user agents. For instance, this means that authors cannot use the isindex or the plaintext element, but user agents are required to support them in a way that is compatible with how these elements need to behave for compatibility with deployed content.
Since HTML5 has separate conformance requirements for authors and user agents there is no longer a need for marking features "deprecated".
The HTML5 specification will not be considered finished before there are at least two complete implementations of the specification. A test suite will be used to measure completeness of the implementations. This approach differs from previous versions of HTML, where the final specification would typically be approved by a committee before being actually implemented. The goal of this change is to ensure that the specification is implementable, and usable by authors once it is finished.
HTML5 defines an HTML syntax that is compatible with HTML4 and XHTML1 documents published on the Web, but is not compatible with the more esoteric SGML features of HTML4, such as processing instructions and shorthand markup as these are not supported by most user agents. Documents using the HTML syntax are served with the text/html media type.
HTML5 also defines detailed parsing rules (including "error handling") for this syntax which are largely compatible with HTML4-era implementations. User agents must use these rules for resources that have the text/html media type. Here is an example document that conforms to the HTML syntax:
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Example document</title> </head> <body> <p>Example paragraph</p> </body> </html>The other syntax that can be used for HTML5 is XML. This syntax is compatible with XHTML1 documents and implementations. Documents using this syntax need to be served with an XML media type and elements need to be put in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace following the rules set forth by the XML specifications. [XML]
Below is an example document that conforms to the XML syntax of HTML5. Note that XML documents must be served with an XML media type such as application/xhtml+xml or application/xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Example document</title> </head> <body> <p>Example paragraph</p> </body> </html>For the HTML syntax, authors are required to declare the character encoding. There are three ways to do that:
Content-Type header for instance.meta element with a charset attribute that specifies the encoding within the first 1024 bytes of the document. For instance, <meta charset="UTF-8"> could be used to specify the UTF-8 encoding. This replaces the need for <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> although that syntax is still allowed.For the XML syntax, authors have to use the rules as set forth in the XML specifications to set the character encoding.
The HTML syntax of HTML5 requires a doctype to be specified to ensure that the browser renders the page in standards mode. The doctype has no other purpose. [DOCTYPE]
The doctype declaration for the HTML syntax is <!DOCTYPE html> and is case-insensitive. Doctypes from earlier versions of HTML were longer because the HTML language was SGML-based and therefore required a reference to a DTD. With HTML5 this is no longer the case and the doctype is only needed to enable standards mode for documents written using the HTML syntax. Browsers already do this for <!DOCTYPE html>.
To support legacy markup generators that cannot generate the preferred short doctype, the doctype <!DOCTYPE html SYSTEM "about:legacy-compat"> is allowed in the HTML syntax.
The strict doctypes for HTML 4.0, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 as well as XHTML 1.1 are also allowed (but are discouraged) in the HTML syntax.
In the XML syntax, any doctype declaration may be used, or it may be omitted altogether. Documents with an XML media type are always handled in standards mode.
The HTML syntax of HTML5 allows for MathML and SVG elements to be used inside a document. An math or svg start tag causes the HTML parser to switch to a special insertion mode which puts elements and attributes in the appropriate namespaces, does case fixups for elements and attributes that have mixed case, and supports the empty-element syntax as in XML. The syntax is still case-insensitive and attributes allow the same syntax as for HTML elements. Namespace declarations may be omitted. CDATA sections are supported in this insertion mode.
Some MathML and SVG elements cause the parser to switch back to "HTML mode", e.g. mtext and foreignObject, so you can use HTML elements or a new math or svg element.
For instance, a very simple document using some of the minimal syntax features could look like:
<!doctype html> <title>SVG in text/html</title> <p> A green circle: <svg> <circle r="50" cx="50" cy="50" fill="green"/> </svg> </p>There are a few other changes in the HTML syntax worthy of mentioning:
The ⟨ and ⟩ named character references now expand to U+27E8 and U+27E9 instead of U+2329 and U+232A, respectively.
Many new named character references have been added, including all from MathML.
Void elements (known as "EMPTY" in HTML4) are allowed to have a trailing slash.
The ampersand (&) may be left unescaped in some more cases compared to HTML4.
Attributes have to be separated by at least one whitespace character.
Attributes with an empty value may be written as just the attribute name omitting the equals sign and the value, even if it's not a boolean attribute. (HTML4 actually allowed using only the attribute value and omitting the attribute name, for enumerated attributes, but this was not supported in browsers.)
Attributes omitting quotes for the value are allowed to use a larger set of characters compared to HTML4.
The optgroup end tag is now optional.
The colgroup start tag is now optional and is inferred by the HTML parser.
This section is split up in several subsections to more clearly illustrate the various differences there are between HTML4 and HTML5.
The following elements have been introduced for better structure:
section represents a generic document or application section. It can be used together with the h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6 elements to indicate the document structure.
article represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a blog entry or newspaper article.
aside represents a piece of content that is only slightly related to the rest of the page.
hgroup represents the header of a section.
header represents a group of introductory or navigational aids.
footer represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the author, copyright information, etc.
nav represents a section of the document intended for navigation.
figure represents a piece of self-contained flow content, typically referenced as a single unit from the main flow of the document.
<figure> <video src="example.webm" controls></video> <figcaption>Example</figcaption> </figure>figcaption can be used as caption (it is optional).
Then there are several other new elements:
video and audio for multimedia content. Both provide an API so application authors can script their own user interface, but there is also a way to trigger a user interface provided by the user agent. source elements are used together with these elements if there are multiple streams available of different types.
embed is used for plugin content.
mark represents a run of text in one document marked or highlighted for reference purposes, due to its relevance in another context.
progress represents a completion of a task, such as downloading or when performing a series of expensive operations.
meter represents a measurement, such as disk usage.
time represents a date and/or time.
WHATWG HTML has data which allows content to be annotated with a machine-readable value.
WHATWG HTML has dialog for showing a dialog.
bdi represents a span of text that is to be isolated from its surroundings for the purposes of bidirectional text formatting.
wbr represents a line break opportunity.
canvas is used for rendering dynamic bitmap graphics on the fly, such as graphs or games.
command represents a command the user can invoke.
details represents additional information or controls which the user can obtain on demand. The summary element provides its summary, legend, or caption.
datalist together with the a new list attribute for input can be used to make comboboxes:
<input list="browsers"> <datalist id="browsers"> <option value="Safari"> <option value="Internet Explorer"> <option value="Opera"> <option value="Firefox"> </datalist>keygen represents control for key pair generation.
output represents some type of output, such as from a calculation done through scripting.
The input element's type attribute now has the following new values:
The idea of these new types is that the user agent can provide the user interface, such as a calendar date picker or integration with the user's address book, and submit a defined format to the server. It gives the user a better experience as his input is checked before sending it to the server meaning there is less time to wait for feedback.
Several attributes have been introduced to various elements that were already part of HTML4:
The a and area elements now have a media attribute for consistency with the link element. WHATWG HTML also has the download and ping attributes.
The area element, for consistency with the a and link elements, now also has the hreflang, type and rel attributes.
The base element can now have a target attribute as well, mainly for consistency with the a element. (This is already widely supported.)
The meta element has a charset attribute now as this was already widely supported and provides a nice way to specify the character encoding for the document.
A new autofocus attribute can be specified on the input (except when the type attribute is hidden), select, textarea and button elements. It provides a declarative way to focus a form control during page load. Using this feature should enhance the user experience compared to focusing the element with script as the user can turn it off if the user does not like it, for instance.
A new placeholder attribute can be specified on the input and textarea elements. It represents a hint intended to aid the user with data entry.
<input type=email placeholder="a@b.com">The new form attribute for input, output, select, textarea, button, label, object and fieldset elements allows for controls to be associated with a form. These elements can now be placed anywhere on a page, not just as descendants of the form element, and still be associated with a form.
<table> <tr> <th>Key <th>Value <th>Action <tr> <td><form id=1><input name=1-key></form> <td><input form=1 name=1-value> <td><button form=1 name=1-action value=save>✓</button> <button form=1 name=1-action value=delete>✗</button> ... </table>
The new required attribute applies to input (except when the type attribute is hidden, image or some button type such as submit), select and textarea. It indicates that the user has to fill in a value in order to submit the form. For select, the first option element has to be a placeholder with an empty value.
<label>Color: <select name=color required> <option value="">Choose one <option>Red <option>Green <option>Blue </select></label>The fieldset element now allows the disabled attribute which disables all descendant controls (excluding those that are descendants of the legend element) when specified, and the name attribute which can be used for script access.
The input element has several new attributes to specify constraints: autocomplete, min, max, multiple, pattern and step. As mentioned before it also has a new list attribute which can be used together with the datalist element. It also now has the width and height attributes to specify the dimensions of the image when using type=image.
The input and textarea elements have a new attribute named dirname that causes the directionality of the control as set by the user to be submitted as well.
The textarea element also has two new attributes, maxlength and wrap which control max input length and submitted line wrapping behavior, respectively.
The form element has a novalidate attribute that can be used to disable form validation submission (i.e. the form can always be submitted).
The input and button elements have formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate, and formtarget as new attributes. If present, they override the action, enctype, method, novalidate, and target attributes on the form element.
In WHATWG HTML, the input and textarea have an inputmode attribute.
The menu element has two new attributes: type and label. They allow the element to transform into a menu as found in typical user interfaces as well as providing for context menus in conjunction with the global contextmenu attribute.
The style element has a new scoped attribute which can be used to enable scoped style sheets. Style rules within such a style element only apply to the local tree.
The script element has a new attribute called async that influences script loading and execution.
The html element has a new attribute called manifest that points to an application cache manifest used in conjunction with the API for offline Web applications.
The link element has a new attribute called sizes. It can be used in conjunction with the icon relationship (set through the rel attribute; can be used for e.g. favicons) to indicate the size of the referenced icon. Thus allowing for icons of distinct dimensions.
The ol element has a new attribute called reversed. When present, it indicates that the list order is descending.
The iframe element has three new attributes called sandbox, seamless, and srcdoc which allow for sandboxing content, e.g. blog comments.
The object element has a new attribute called typemustmatch which allows safer embedding of external resources.
The img element has a new attribute called crossorigin to use CORS in the fetch and if it is successful, allows the image data to be read with the canvas API. In WHATWG HTML, there is also a new attribute called srcset to support multiple images for different resolutions and different images for different viewport sizes.
Several attributes from HTML4 now apply to all elements. These are called global attributes: accesskey, class, dir, id, lang, style, tabindex and title. Additionally, XHTML 1.0 only allowed xml:space on some elements, which is now allowed on all elements in XHTML documents.
There are also several new global attributes:
The contenteditable attribute indicates that the element is an editable area. The user can change the contents of the element and manipulate the markup.
The contextmenu attribute can be used to point to a context menu provided by the author.
The data-* collection of author-defined attributes. Authors can define any attribute they want as long as they prefix it with data- to avoid clashes with future versions of HTML. These are intended to be used to store custom data to be consumed by the Web page or application itself. They are not intended for data to be consumed by other parties (e.g. user agents).
The draggable and dropzone attributes can be used together with the new drag & drop API.
The hidden attribute indicates that an element is not yet, or is no longer, relevant.
WHATWG HTML has the inert attribute, intended to make dialog elements modal.
The role and aria-* collection attributes which can be used to instruct assistive technology.
The spellcheck attribute allows for hinting whether content can be checked for spelling or not.
The translate attribute gives a hint to translators whether the content should be translated.
HTML5 also makes all event handler attributes from HTML4, which take the form onevent, global attributes and adds several new event handler attributes for new events it defines. For instance, the onplay event handler attribute for the play event which is used by the API for the media elements (video and audio).
These elements have slightly modified meanings in HTML5 to better reflect how they are used on the Web or to make them more useful:
The address element is now scoped by the nearest ancestor article or body element.
The b element now represents a span of text to which attention is being drawn for utilitarian purposes without conveying any extra importance and with no implication of an alternate voice or mood, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, actionable words in interactive text-driven software, or an article lede.
The cite element now solely represents the title of a work (e.g. a book, a paper, an essay, a poem, a score, a song, a script, a film, a TV show, a game, a sculpture, a painting, a theatre production, a play, an opera, a musical, an exhibition, a legal case report, etc). Specifically the example in HTML4 where it is used to mark up the name of a person is no longer considered conforming.
The dl element now represents an association list of name-value groups, and is no longer said to be appropriate for dialogue.
The hr element now represents a paragraph-level thematic break.
The i element now represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts.
For the label element the browser should no longer move focus from the label to the control unless such behavior is standard for the underlying platform user interface.
The menu element is redefined to be useful for toolbars and context menus.
The noscript element is no longer said to be rendered when the user agent doesn't support a scripting language invoked by a script element earlier in the document.
The s element now represents contents that are no longer accurate or no longer relevant.
The script element can now be used for scripts or for custom data blocks.
The small element now represents side comments such as small print.
The strong element now represents importance rather than strong emphasis.
The u element now represents a span of text with an unarticulated, though explicitly rendered, non-textual annotation, such as labeling the text as being a proper name in Chinese text (a Chinese proper name mark), or labeling the text as being misspelt.
Several attributes have changed in various ways.
The accept attribute on input now allows the values audio/*, video/* and image/*.
The accesskey global attribute now allows multiple characters to be specified, which the user agent can choose from.
The action attribute on form is no longer allowed to have an empty URL.
In WHATWG HTML, the method attribute has a new keyword dialog, intended to close a dialog element.
The border attribute on table only allows the values "1" and the empty string. In WHATWG HTML, the border attribute is obsolete.
The colspan attribute on td and th now has to be greater than zero.
The coords attribute on area no longer allows a percentage value of the radius when the element is in the circle state.
The data attribute on object is no longer said to be relative to the codebase attribute.
The defer attribute on script now explicitly makes the script execute when the page has finished parsing.
The dir global attribute now allows the value auto.
The enctype attribute on form now supports the value text/plain.
The width and height attributes on img, iframe and object are no longer allowed to contain percentages. They are also not allowed to be used to stretch the image to a different aspect ratio than its intrinsic aspect ratio.
The href attribute on link is no longer allowed to have an empty URL.
The href attribute on base is now allowed to contain a relative URL.
All attributes that take URLs, e.g. href on the a element, now support IRIs if the document's encoding is UTF-8 or UTF-16.
The http-equiv attribute on meta is no longer said to be used by HTTP servers to create HTTP headers in the HTTP response. Instead, it is said to be a pragma directive to be used by the user agent.
The id global attribute is now allowed to have any value, as long as it is unique, is not the empty string, and does not contain space characters.
The lang global attribute takes the empty string in addition to a valid language identifier, just like xml:lang does in XML.
The media attribute on link now accepts a media query and defaults to "all".
The event handler attributes (e.g. onclick) now always use JavaScript as the scripting language.
The value attribute of the li element is no longer deprecated as it is not presentational. The same goes for the start and type attributes of the ol element.
The style global attribute now always uses CSS as the styling language.
The tabindex global attribute now allows negative values which indicate that the element can receive focus but cannot be tabbed to.
The target attribute of the a and area elements is no longer deprecated, as it is useful in Web applications, e.g. in conjunction with iframe.
The type attribute on script and style is no longer required if the scripting language is JavaScript and the styling language is CSS, respectively.
The usemap attribute on img no longer takes a URL, but instead takes a valid hash-name reference to a map element.
The following attributes are allowed but authors are discouraged from using them and instead strongly encouraged to use an alternative solution:
The border attribute on img. It is required to have the value "0" when present. Authors can use CSS instead.
The language attribute on script. It is required to have the value "JavaScript" (case-insensitive) when present and cannot conflict with the type attribute. Authors can simply omit it as it has no useful function.
The name attribute on a. Authors can use the id attribute instead.
The elements in this section are not to be used by authors. User agents will still have to support them and various sections in HTML5 define how. E.g. the obsolete isindex element is handled by the parser section.
The following elements are not in HTML5 because their effect is purely presentational and their function is better handled by CSS:
The following elements are not in HTML5 because using them damages usability and accessibility:
The following elements are not included because they have not been used often, created confusion, or their function can be handled by other elements:
acronym is not included because it has created a lot of confusion. Authors are to use abbr for abbreviations.applet has been obsoleted in favor of object. isindex usage can be replaced by usage of form controls. dir has been obsoleted in favor of ul. Finally the noscript element is only conforming in the HTML syntax. It is not allowed in the XML syntax. This is because in order to not only hide visually but also prevent the content to run scripts, apply style sheets, have submittable form controls, load resources, and so forth, the HTML parser parses the content of the noscript element as plain text. The same is not possible with an XML parser.
Some attributes from HTML4 are no longer allowed in HTML5. The specification defines how user agents should process them in legacy documents, but authors must not use them and they will not validate.
HTML5 has advice on what you can use instead.
rev and charset attributes on link and a. shape and coords attributes on a. longdesc attribute on img and iframe. target attribute on link. nohref attribute on area. profile attribute on head. version attribute on html. name attribute on img (use id instead). scheme attribute on meta. archive, classid, codebase, codetype, declare and standby attributes on object. valuetype and type attributes on param. axis and abbr attributes on td and th. scope attribute on td. summary attribute on table. In addition, HTML5 has none of the presentational attributes that were in HTML4 as their functions are better handled by CSS:
align attribute on caption, iframe, img, input, object, legend, table, hr, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead and tr. alink, link, text and vlink attributes on body. background attribute on body. bgcolor attribute on table, tr, td, th and body. border attribute on object. cellpadding and cellspacing attributes on table. char and charoff attributes on col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead and tr. clear attribute on br. compact attribute on dl, menu, ol and ul. frame attribute on table. frameborder attribute on iframe. height attribute on td and th. hspace and vspace attributes on img and object. marginheight and marginwidth attributes on iframe. noshade attribute on hr. nowrap attribute on td and th. rules attribute on table. scrolling attribute on iframe. size attribute on hr. type attribute on li, and ul. valign attribute on col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead and tr. width attribute on hr, table, td, th, col, colgroup and pre. Content model is what defines how elements may be nested — what is allowed as children (or descendants) of a certain element.
At a high level, HTML4 had two major categories of elements, "inline" (e.g. span, img, text), and "block-level" (e.g. div, hr, table). Some elements did not fit in either category.
Some elements allowed "inline" elements (e.g. p), some allowed "block-level" elements (e.g. body), some allowed both (e.g. div), while other elements did not allow either category but only allowed other specific elements (e.g. dl, table), or did now allow any children at all (e.g. link, img, hr).
Notice the difference between an element itself being in a certain category, and having a content model of a certain category. For instance, the p element is itself a "block-level" element, but has a content model of "inline".
To make it more confusing, HTML4 had different content model rules in its Strict, Transitional and Frameset flavors. For instance, in Strict, the body element allowed only "block-level" elements, but in Transitional, it allowed both "inline" and "block-level".
To make things more confusing still, CSS uses the terms "block-level element" and "inline-level element" for its visual formatting model, which is related to CSS's 'display' property and has nothing to do with HTML's content model rules.
HTML5 does not use the terms "block-level" or "inline" as part of its content model rules, to reduce confusion with CSS. However, it has more categories than HTML4, and an element can be part of none of them, one of them, or several of them.
link, script. span, div, text. This is roughly like HTML4's "block-level" and "inline" together. aside, section. h1, hgroup. span, img, text. This is roughly like HTML4's "inline". Elements that are phrasing content are also flow content. img, iframe, svg. a, button, label. Interactive content is not allowed to be nested. As broad changes from HTML4, HTML5 no longer has any element that only accepts what HTML4 called "block-level" elements; e.g. the body element now allows flow content. This is thus closer to HTML4 Transitional than HTML4 Strict.
Further changes include:
The address element now allows flow content, but with no heading content descendants, no sectioning content descendants, and no header, footer, or address element descendants.
WHATWG HTML allows link and meta as descendants of body if they use microdata attributes.
The noscript element was a "block-level" element in HTML4, but is phrasing content in HTML5.
The table, thead, tbody, tfoot, tr, ol, ul and dl elements are allowed to be empty in HTML5.
Table elements have to conform to the table model (e.g. two cells are not allowed to overlap).
The table element now does not allow col elements as direct children. However, the HTML parser implies a colgroup element, so this change should not affect text/html content.
The table element now allows the tfoot element to be the last child.
The caption element now allows flow content, but with no descendant table elements.
The th element now allows flow content, but with no header, footer, sectioning content, or heading content descendants.
The a element now has a transparent content model (except it does not allow interactive content descendants), meaning that it has the same content model as its parent. This means that the a element can now contain e.g. div elements, if its parent allows flow content.
The ins and del elements also have a transparent content model. HTML4 had similar rules in prose that could not be expressed in the DTD.
The object element also has a transparent content model, after its param children.
The map element also has a transparent content model. The area element is considered phrasing content if there is a map element ancestor, which means that they do not need to be direct children of map.
HTML5 has introduced many new APIs and have extended, changed or obsoleted some existing APIs.
HTML5 introduces a number of APIs that help in creating Web applications. These can be used together with the new elements introduced for applications:
Media elements (video and audio) have APIs for controlling playback, syncronising multiple media elements, and timed text tracks (e.g. subtitles).
An API for form constraint validation (e.g. the setCustomValidity() method).
An API for commands that the user can invoke (used together with the command element among others).
An API that enables offline Web applications, with an application cache.
An API that allows a Web application to register itself for certain protocols or media types, using registerProtocolHandler() and registerContentHandler() .
Editing API in combination with a new global contenteditable attribute.
Drag & drop API in combination with a draggable attribute.
An API that exposes the components of the document's URL and allows scripts to navigate, redirect and reload (the Location interface).
An API that exposes the session history and allows scripts to update the document's URL without actually navigating, so that applications don't need to abuse the fragment component for "Ajax-style" navigation (the History interface).
An API to schedule timer-based callbacks (setTimeout() and setInterval()).
An API to prompt the user (alert(), confirm(), prompt(), showModalDialog()).
An API for printing the document (print()).
An API for handling search providers (AddSearchProvider() and IsSearchProviderInstalled()).
The Window object has been defined.
WHATWG HTML has further APIs that are not in HTML5 but are separate specifications at the W3C:
An API for microdata.
An API for immediate-mode bitmap graphics (the 2d context for the canvas element).
An API for cross-document messaging and channel messaging (postMessage() and MessageChannel).
An API for runnings scripts in the background (Worker and SharedWorker).
An API for client-side storage (localStorage and sessionStorage).
An API for bidirectional client-server communication (WebSocket).
An API for server-to-client data push (EventSource).
The following features from DOM Level 2 HTML are changed in various ways:
document.title now collapses whitespace on getting.
document.domain is made settable, which can change the document's effective script origin.
document.open() now either clears the document (if invoked with two or less arguments), or acts like window.open() (if invoked with three or four arguments). In the former case, throws an exception in XML.
document.close(), document.write() and document.writeln() throw an exception in XML. The latter two now support variadic arguments; they can add text to the document's input stream while it is still being parsed, or can imply a call to document.open() or be ignored altogether in some cases.
document.getElementsByName() now returns all HTML elements with a name attribute matching the argument.
elements on HTMLFormElement now returns an HTMLFormControlsCollection of button, fieldset, input, keygen, object, output, select and textarea elements. length returns the number of nodes in elements.
add() on HTMLSelectElement now also accepts an integer as its second argument.
remove() on HTMLSelectElement now removes the first element in the collection if the argument is out of bounds.
The click(), focus() and blur() methods are now available on all HTML elements.
DocumentDOM Level 2 HTML had an HTMLDocument interface that inherited from Document and provided HTML-specific members on documents. HTML5 has moved these members to the Document interface, and extended it in a number of ways. Since all documents use the Document interface, the HTML-specific members are now available on all documents, so they are usable in e.g. SVG documents as well. It also has several new members:
location, lastModified and readyState to help resource metadata management.
dir, head, embeds, plugins, scripts, commands, and a generic name getter, to access various parts of the DOM tree. WHATWG HTML also has getItems() for microdata and cssElementMap to accompany the CSS element() feature.
activeElement and hasFocus to determine which element is currently focused and whether the Document has focus respectively.
designMode, execCommand(), queryCommandEnabled(), queryCommandIndeterm(), queryCommandState(), queryCommandSupported(), queryCommandValue() for the editing API.
All event handler IDL attributes. Also, onreadystatechange is a special event handler IDL attribute that is only available on Document.
Existing scripts that modified the prototype of HTMLDocument should continue to work because window.HTMLDocument now returns the Document interface object.
HTMLElementThe HTMLElement interface has also gained several extensions in HTML5:
translate, hidden, tabIndex, accessKey, draggable, dropzone, contentEditable, contextMenu, spellcheck and style reflect content attributes.
classList is a convenient accessor for className. The object it returns, exposes methods (contains(), add(), remove(), and toggle()) for manipulating the element's classes.
dataset is a convenience feature for handling the data-* attributes, which are exposed as camel-cased properties. For instance, elm.dataset.fooBar = 'test' sets the data-foo-bar content attribute on elm.
WHATWG HTML has itemScope, itemType, itemId, itemRef, itemProp, properties and itemValue for microdata.
click(), focus() and blur() allows scripts to simulate clicks and moving focus.
accessKeyLabel gives the shortcut key that the user agent has assigned for the element, which the author can influence with the accesskey attribute.
isContentEditable returns true if the element is editable.
commandType, commandLabel, commandIcon, commandHidden, commandDisabled and commandChecked is part of the command API.
All event handler IDL attributes.
Some interfaces in DOM Level 2 HTML have been extended.
HTMLOptionsCollection now has a legacy caller, setter creator, and the members add(), remove() and selectedIndex
HTMLLinkElement and HTMLStyleElement now implement the LinkStyle interface from CSSOM. [CSSOM]
HTMLFormElement now has a named getter and an indexed getter.
HTMLSelectElement now has a getter, item() and namedItem() methods, a setter creator, selectedOptions and labels IDL attributes, and members for the form constrain validation API: willValidate, validity, validationMessage, checkValidity() and setCustomValidity().
HTMLOptionElement now has a constructor Option.
HTMLInputElement now has the members files, height, indeterminate, list, valueAsDate, valueAsNumber, width, stepUp(), stepDown(), the form constraint validation API members, labels, members for the text field selection API: selectionStart, selectionEnd, selectionDirection, setSelectionRange() and setRangeText().
HTMLTextAreaElement now has the members textLength, the form constraint validation API members, labels and the text field selection API members.
HTMLButtonElement now has the form constraint validation API members and labels.
HTMLLabelElement now has the member control.
HTMLFieldSetElement now has the members type, elements and the form constraint validation API members.
HTMLAnchorElement now has the members relList, text, the URL decomposition IDL attributes: protocol, host, hostname, port, pathname, search and hash. HTMLLinkElement and HTMLAreaElement also have the relList IDL attribute. HTMLAreaElement also has the URL decomposition IDL attributes.
HTMLImageElement now has a constructor Image, the members naturalWidth, naturalHeight and complete.
HTMLObjectElement now has the members contentWindow, the form constraint validation API members and a legacy caller.
HTMLMapElement now has the member images.
HTMLTableElement now has the member createTBody().
HTMLIFrameElement now has the member contentWindow.
In addition, most new content attributes also have corresponding IDL attributes on the elements' interfaces, e.g. the sizes IDL attribute on HTMLLinkElement which reflects the sizes content attribute.
Some APIs are now either removed altogether, or marked as obsolete.
All IDL attributes that reflect a content attribute that is itself obsolete, are now also obsolete. For instance, the bgColor IDL attribute on HTMLBodyElement which reflects the obsolete bgcolor content attribute.
The following interfaces are marked obsolete since the elements are obsolete: HTMLAppletElement, HTMLFrameSetElement, HTMLFrameElement, HTMLBaseFontElement, HTMLDirectoryElement and HTMLFontElement.
The HTMLIsIndexElement interface is removed altogether since the HTML parser expands an isindex tag into other elements.
The following members of the HTMLDocument interface (which have now moved to Document) are now obsolete: anchors and applets.
The changelogs in this section indicate what has been changed between publications of the HTML5 drafts, as well as changes in WHATWG HTML that do not affect HTML5. Rationale for changes can be found in the public-html@w3.org and whatwg@whatwg. org mailing list archives, and the WHATWG Weekly series of blog posts. More fundamental rationale is being collected on the WHATWG Rationale wiki page. Many editorial and minor technical changes are not included in these changelogs. Implementors are strongly encouraged to follow the development of the main specification on a frequent basis so they become aware of all changes that affect them early on.
The changes in the changelogs are in rough chronological order.
ruby was changed with regards to nested ruby elements. script tags in the HTML syntax now execute. find() API has been dropped. inBandMetadataTrackDispatchType IDL attribute was added to TextTrack. TextTrackCue() constructor now has fewer arguments. accept attribute now supports file extensions as well as MIME types. initialTime IDL attribute on media elements has been dropped. startOffsetTime IDL attribute on media elements has been renamed to startDate. Further changes to WHATWG HTML that do not affect HTML5:
addElement() was dropped from the Drag and Drop API. iframe elements with the seamless attribute. :enabled and :disabled pseudo-classes now apply to input elements in the Hidden state. ssh, sip and magnet schemes are now in the registerProtocolHandler() whitelist. table elements now have 'box-sizing:border-box' by default. hidden attribute. alt text can now use a specific attribute on img that makes validators ignore the missing alt error. data: URLs. inputmode attribute has been added to input and textarea. autocomplete attribute has been extended to support prefilling specific things. ArrayBufferView as well as ArrayBuffer. border attribute on table is non-conforming again. connect event now also exposes the source port in the source IDL attribute. send(). setRangeText() method has been added to input and textarea. srcset attribute has been added to img. prefer-online mode. dialog element, the inert global attribute and the dialog method on form. resetTransform() method, currentTransform IDL attribute, several IDL attributes for font metrics, resetClip() method, imageSmoothingEnabled IDL attribute, addHitRegion() method, removeHitRegion() method, support for dashed lines, have been added to the canvas 2d context. TextTrackCue members alignment, linePosition, textPosition and direction were renamed to align, line, position and vertical, respectively. command element now has a command attribute. translate global attribute was added. showModalDialog(), alert(), confirm() and prompt() methods are now allowed to do nothing during pagehide, beforeunload and unload events. script element now supports beforescriptexecute and afterscriptexecute events. window.onerror now supports a fourth argument for column position. window.opener IDL attribute can now return null in some cases. clearTimeout() and clearInterval() methods were made synonymous. @global at-rule was introduced, for use together with style elements with the scoped attribute. embed and object elements now have a legacy caller. window.onerror's return value was changed to match reality. setTimeout() API is now allowed to be throttled in background tabs. :valid and :invalid pseudo-classes now apply to form elements. toBlob() method on canvas now honors the origin-clean flag. activeElement IDL attribute now points to the relevant browsing context container (e.g. iframe) when a child document has focus. atob() method now ignores whitespace. dropzone attribute was changed to use "string:" and "file:" instead of "s:" and "f:". cueAsSource IDL attribute on TextTrackCue got renamed to text. window.onerror API is now invoked with dummy arguments for cross-origin scripts. textarea element's value and textLength IDL attributes have their newlines normalized to LF. q element now has language-specific quotes rendered by default. data element was introduced. time element was redesigned to make it match how people wanted to use it. Its pubdate attribute was dropped. form was removed. location.resolveURL() method was removed. track element now sniffs instead of obeying the MIME type. load() method on documents created by createDocument() is now defined on the XMLDocument interface. HTMLDocument moved to Document and window.HTMLDocument now just returns window.Document. MutableTextTrack and TextTrack interfaces were merged and TextTrackCue was made more mutable. selectedOption IDL attribute on input was dropped. readyState IDL attribute moved from TextTrack to HTMLTrackElement. text/html-sandboxed MIME type was dropped. ." character. header, footer, sectioning content or heading content descendants. addtrack event on the relevant track list objects. currentTime on media elements before the media has loaded now defers the seek instead of throwing. iframes if they honor the sandbox attribute. MediaControllers now get paused when they end. init*Event() methods were removed. suspend event when the resource is loaded. br element. UndoManager and related features moved to UndoManager and DOM Transaction. isProtocolHandlerRegistered(), isContentHandlerRegistered(), unregisterProtocolHandler() and unregisterContentHandler() were added. registerContentHandler() now has a blacklist of MIME types. registerProtocolHandler() now has a whitelist of protocols, but also supports any protocol that starts with "web+". text/html resources now don't need to point to an element with a matching ID. audio elements are now allowed to have zero source children. maxlength and size attributes are allowed (but give warnings in validators) on input elements with type=number. shortcut icon" is now allowed. heading and tab roles. EventTarget now inherit from it instead of using "implements". setInterval() API now clamps to 4ms instead of 10ms. select element and its options collection now have a setter. rel=help on links now show a help cursor by default. window.print() before the document is loaded defers the print until it is loaded. abort() method. HTMLCollection, DOMTokenList, getElementsByClassName(), createHTMLDocument(), HTML-specific overrides to some DOM Core features (like createElement()), some definitions, the id IDL attribute and ID handling moved to DOM4. pushState() and replaceState() methods now change the history entry to GET. commandLabel, commandIcon, commandHidden, commandDisabled and commandChecked. window.postMessage now supports transferring some objects instead of cloning them, and supports transferring ArrayBuffer. placeholder attribute is now allowed on input elements with type=number. MediaController gained an onended event listener. object element gained a new attribute typemustmatch, to make it safer for authors to embed untrusted resources where they expect a certain content type. form attribute was removed from meter and progress. ruby. text/plain) that are guaranteed to never be supported as scripting types for script were specified, so authors can safely use them for custom data blocks. about:blank documents created from window.open() now get a load event. window.status was specified to exist but do nothing. DataTransferItems was renamed to DataTransferItemList. crossorigin attribute has been added to img, video and audio to use CORS. external IDL attribute has been added on window and has the members AddSearchProvider() and IsSearchProviderInstalled(). Further changes to WHATWG HTML that do not affect HTML5:
arc() and arcTo() methods and the new ellipse() method. Path objects. SVG path data can be added to a Path. http+aes: and https+aes: URL schemes were added to allow sensitive resources to be held on untrusted servers. itemprop attribute is used on an element where microdata gets its value from an attribute (like href on a elements), that attribute is now required. PeerConnection was moved to WebRTC. CLOSING state. itemtype attribute now allows multiple types. CanvasPixelArray was dropped in favor of Uint8ClampedArray. link element is no longer allowed to have both rel and itemprop. a element got a new download attribute. This attribute is not included in HTML5. window.find() method was added. fillText() and strokeText() methods now do not collapse whitespace. location now stringifies. onerror handler. EventSource now supports CORS. EventSource was made stricter in its MIME type checking. atob() and btoa() methods. ononline and onoffline event handlers. error event again. PeerConnection API. javascript: scheme in img, object, CSS, etc, has been dropped. toBlob() method has been added to canvas. drawFocusRing() method on the canvas 2d context has been split into two methods, drawSystemFocusRing() and drawCustomFocusRing(). values attribute on PropertyNodeList has been replaced with a getValues() method. select event has been specified. selectDirection IDL attribute has been added to input and textarea. :enabled and :disabled pseudo-classes now match fieldset, and the :indeterminate pseudo-class can now match progress. getKind() method has been added to TrackList. MediaController API and the mediagroup attribute have been added to synchronize playback of media elements. getName() method on TrackList was renamed to getLabel(). border attribute on table is now conforming. u element is now conforming. summary attribute on table is now non-conforming. audio attribute on video was changed to a boolean muted attribute. Content-Language meta pragma is now non-conforming. pushState and replaceState features have been changed based on implementation feedback in Firefox, and history.state has been introduced. tracks IDL attribute on media elements has been renamed to textTracks. forminput and formchange events, and the dispatchFormInput() and dispatchFormChange() methods have been dropped. rel keywords archives, up, last, index, first and related synonyms have been dropped. video element's letterboxing rules are now specified in terms of CSS 'object-fit'. canvas. onerror event handler on window is now invoked for compile-time script errors as well as runtime errors. script elements now have async default to true, which can be set to false to make the scripts execute in insertion order. atob() and btoa() methods have been specified. .manifest to .appcache. action and formaction attributes are no longer allowed to have the empty string as value. dropzone attribute was added.bdi element was added to aid with user-generated content that may have bidi implications.dir attribute gained a new "auto" value.dirname attribute was added to input elements. When specified the directionality as specified by the user will be submitted to the server as well.track element and associated TextTrack API were added for video text tracks.type attribute on the ol element is now allowed. The getSelection() API moved to a separate DOM Range draft. Similarly UndoManager has been removed from the W3C copy of HTML5 for now as it is not ready yet.
hidden attribute now works for table-related elements.canvasgetContext() method is now defined to be able to handle multiple contexts better.startTime IDL attribute was renamed to initialTime and startOffsetTime was added.prefetch link relationship can now be used on a elements.datetime attribute of ins and del no longer requires a time to be specified.form element is no longer supported.s element is no longer deprecated.video element has a new audio attribute.Per usual, lots of other minor fixes have been made as well.
ping attribute has been removed from the W3C version of HTML5.title element is optional for iframesrcdoc documents and other scenarios where a title is already available. As is the case with email.keywords is now a standard metadata name for the meta element.allow-top-navigation value has been added for the sandbox attribute on the iframe element. It allows the embedded content to navigate its parent when specified.wbr element has been added.alternate keyword for the rel attribute of the link element can now be used to point to feeds again, even if the feed is not an alternative for the document.In addition lots of minor changes, clarifications, and fixes have been made to the document.
dialog element has been removed. A section with advice on how to mark up conversations has effectively replaced it.document.head has been introduced to provide convenient access to the head element from script.feed has been removed. alternate with specific media types is to be used instead.createHTMLDocument() has been introduced as API to allow easy creation of HTML documents.meter and progress elements no longer have "magic" processing of their contents because it could not be made to work internationally.meter and progress elements, as well as the output element, can now be labeled using the label element.text/html-sandboxed, was introduced to allow hosting of potentially hostile content without it causing harm.srcdoc attribute for the iframe element was introduced to allow embedding of potentially hostile content inline. It is expected to be used together with the sandbox and seamless attributes.figure element now uses a new element figcaption rather than legend because people want to use HTML5 long before it reaches W3C Recommendation.details element now uses a new element summary for exactly the same reason.autobuffer attribute on media elements was renamed to preload.A whole lot of other smaller issues have also been resolved. The above list summarizes what is thought to be of primary interest to authors.
In addition to all of the above, Microdata, the 2D context API for canvas, and Web Messaging (postMessage() API) have been split into their own drafts at the W3C (the WHATWG still publishes a version of HTML5 that includes them):
Specific microdata vocabularies are gone altogether in the W3C draft of HTML5 and are not published as a separate draft. The WHATWG draft of HTML5 still includes them.
time element is empty user agents have to render the time in a locale-specific manner.load event is dispatched at Window, but now has Document as its target.pushState() now affects the Referer (sic) header.onundo and onredo are now on Window.startTime member that indicates where the current resource starts.header has been renamed to hgroup and a new header element has been introduced.createImageData() now also takes ImageData objects.createPattern() can now take a video element as argument too.footer element is no longer allowed in header and header is not allowed in address or footer.<input type="tel">accesskey is now properly defined.section and article now take a cite attribute.textLength has been added as member of the textarea element.rp element now takes phrasing content rather than a single character.location.reload() is now defined.hashchange event now fires asynchronously.spellcheck IDL attribute now maps to a DOMString.hasFeature() support has been reduced to a minimum.Audio() constructor sets the autobuffer attribute.td element is no longer allowed in thead.input element and DataTransfer object now have a files IDL attribute.datagrid and bb have been removed due to their design not being agreed upon.On top of this list quite a few minor clarifications, typos, issues specific to implementors, and other small problems have been resolved.
In addition, the following parts of HTML5 have been taken out and will likely be further developed at the IETF:
spellcheck has been added.this in the global object returns a WindowProxy object rather than the Window object.value IDL attribute for input elements in the File Upload state is now defined.designMode was changed to be more in line with legacy implementations.drawImage() method of the 2D drawing API can now take a video element as well.document.domain is now IPv6-compatible.video element gained an autobuffer boolean attribute that serves as a hint.meta element with a charset attribute in XML documents if the value of that attribute matches the encoding of the document. (Note that it does not specify the value, it is just a talisman.)bufferingRate and bufferingThrottled members of media elements have been removed.postMessage() API now takes an array of MessagePort objects rather than just one.add() method on the select element and the options member of the select element is now optional.action, enctype, method, novalidate, and target attributes on input and button elements have been renamed to formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate, and formtarget.document.cookie and localStorage) at the same time. The Navigator gained a getStorageUpdates() method to allow it to be explicitly released.text/html resources.placeholder attribute has been added to the textarea element.keygen element for key pair generation.datagrid element was revised to make the API more asynchronous and allow for unloaded parts of the grid.In addition, several parts of HTML5 have been taken out and will be further developed by the Web Applications Working Group as standalone specifications:
localStorage and sessionStorage)data member of ImageData objects has been changed from an array to a CanvasPixelArray object.canvas element and its API.canvas is clarified.canvas have been made in response to implementation and author feedback. E.g. clarifying what happens when NaN and Infinity are passed and fixing the definitions of arc() and arcTo().innerHTML in XML was slightly changed to improve round-tripping.toDataURL() method on the canvas element now supports setting a quality level when the media type argument is image/jpeg.poster attribute of the video element now affects its intrinsic dimensions.type attribute of the link element has been clarified.link when the expected type is an image.href attribute of the base element does not depend on xml:base.xmlns attribute with the value http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml is now allowed on all HTML elements.data-* attributes and custom attributes on the embed element now have to match the XML Name production and cannot contain a colon.volume on media elements is now 1.0 rather than 0.5.event-source was renamed to eventsource because no other HTML element uses a hyphen.postMessage().bb has been added. It represents a user agent command that the user can invoke.addCueRange() method on media elements has been modified to take an identifier which is exposed in the callbacks.parent attribute of the Window object is now defined.embed element is defined to do extension sniffing for compatibility with servers that deliver Flash as text/plain. (This is marked as an issue in the specification to figure out if there is a better way to make this work.)embed can now be used without its src attribute.getElementsByClassName() is defined to be ASCII case-insensitive in quirks mode for consistency with CSS.localName no longer returns the node name in uppercase.data-* attributes are defined to be always lowercase.opener attribute of the Window object is not to be present when the page was opened from a link with target="_blank" and rel="noreferrer".top attribute of the Window object is now defined.a element now allows nested flow content, but not nested interactive content.header element means to document summaries and table of contents.canvas element.autosubmit attribute has been removed from the menu element.outerHTML and insertAdjacentHTML() has been added.xml:lang is now allowed in HTML when lang is also specified and they have the same value. In XML lang is allowed if xml:lang is also specified and they have the same value.frameElement attribute of the Window object is now defined.alt attribute is omitted a title attribute, an enclosing figure element with a legend element descendant, or an enclosing section with an associated heading must be present.irrelevant attribute has been renamed to hidden.definitionURL attribute of MathML is now properly supported. Previously it would have ended up being all lowercase during parsing.datatemplate, rule and nest elements).loop attribute.load() method on media elements has been redefined as asynchronous. It also tries out files in turn now rather than just looking at the type attribute of the source element.canPlayType() has been added to the media elements.totalBytes and bufferedBytes attributes have been removed from the media elements.Location object gained a resolveURL() method.q element has changed again. Punctuation is to be provided by the user agent again.unload and beforeunload events are now defined.headers attribute pointing to a td or th element, but authors are required to only let them point to th elements.http-equiv values.meta element has a charset attribute it must occur within the first 512 bytes.StorageEvent object now has a storageArea attribute.foreignObject element.HTMLDocument and Window objects is now defined.Window object gained the locationbar, menubar, personalbar, scrollbars, statusbar and toolbar attributes giving information about the user interface.document.domain now relies on the Public Suffix List. [PSL]Web Forms 2.0, previously a standalone specification, has been fully integrated into HTML5 since last publication. The following changes were made to the forms chapter:
select and datalist elements through the data attribute has been removed.form attribute.dispatchChangeInput() and dispatchFormChange() methods have been removed from the select, input, textarea, and button elements.inputmode attribute has been removed.input element in the File Upload state no longer supports the min and max attributes.allow attribute on input elements in the File Upload state is no longer authoritative.pattern and accept attributes for textarea have been removed.submit() method now just submits, it no longer ensures the form controls are valid.input element in the Range state now defaults to the middle, rather than the minimum value.size attribute on the input element is now conforming (rather than deprecated).object elements now partake in form submission.type attribute of the input element gained the values color and search.input element gained a multiple attribute which allows for either multiple e-mails or multiple files to be uploaded depending on the value of the type attribute.input, button and form elements now have a novalidate attribute to indicate that the form fields should not be required to have valid values upon submission.label element contains an input it may still have a for attribute as long as it points to the input element it contains.input element now has an indeterminate IDL attribute.input element gained a placeholder attribute.ping attribute have changed. <meta http-equiv=content-type> is now a conforming way to set the character encoding.canvas element has been cleaned up. Text support has been added. globalStorage is now restricted to the same-origin policy and renamed to localStorage. Related event dispatching has been clarified. postMessage() API changed. Only the origin of the message is exposed, no longer the URL. It also requires a second argument that indicates the origin of the target document. dataTransfer object now has a types attribute indicating the type of data being transferred. m element is now called mark. figure element no longer requires a caption. ol element has a new reversed attribute. queryCommandEnabled() and related methods. headers attribute has been added for td elements. table element has a new createTBody() method. data-name and can access these through the DOM using dataset[name] on the element in question. q element has changed to require punctuation inside rather than having the browser render it. target attribute can now have the value _blank. showModalDialog API has been added. document.domain API has been defined. source element now has a new pixelratio attribute useful for videos that have some kind encoding error. bufferedBytes, totalBytes and bufferingThrottled IDL attributes have been added to the video element. begin event has been renamed to loadstart for consistency with the Progress Events specification. charset attribute has been added to script. iframe element has gained the sandbox and seamless attributes which provide sandboxing functionality. ruby, rt and rp elements have been added to support ruby annotation. showNotification() method has been added to show notification messages to the user. beforeprint and afterprint events has been added.The editors would like to thank Ben Millard, Bruce Lawson, Cameron McCormack, Charles McCathieNevile, Dan Connolly, David Håsäther, Dennis German, Frank Ellermann, Frank Palinkas, Futomi Hatano, Gordon P. Hemsley, Henri Sivonen, James Graham, Jens Meiert, Jeremy Keith, Jürgen Jeka, Krijn Hoetmer, Leif Halvard Silli, Maciej Stachowiak, Mallory van Achterberg, Marcos Caceres, Mark Pilgrim, Martijn Wargers, Martin Leese, Martyn Haigh, Masataka Yakura, Michael Smith, Mike Taylor, Ms2ger, Olivier Gendrin, Øistein E. Andersen, Philip Jägenstedt, Philip Taylor, Randy Peterman, Toby Inkster, and Yngve Spjeld Landro for their contributions to this document as well as to all the people who have contributed to HTML over the years for improving the Web!
