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Recently has been tackling technical debt across the , , and specs. Here's his post about this retro-specification journey on the WHATWG blog: blog.whatwg.org/retro-specifyi
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Allow particular Range header values without a CORS preflight (thanks jakearchibald!)
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Aside from we also added today. Test Utils will standardize functionality for more involved cross-browser tests.
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Test Utils is now a WHATWG Standard (thanks annevk!)
github.com/whatwg/testuti
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For the first time in quite a while, there is a new WHATWG Standard: Web IDL! Thanks to @heycam and @w3c for many years of stewardship.
webidl.spec.whatwg.org
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Add a "cancel" event for when file upload selection is unchanged
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Add roundRect() canvas method (thanks mysteryDate!)
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Introduce CSS module scripts (thanks dandclark!)
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Are you a library author that does "scheduling" of functions of some sort? Maybe those functions throw exceptions, and you'd like to catch report those in the same way the browser does for event listeners? If so, chime in with your use case in github.com/whatwg/html/pu.
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Have you ever wanted a browser-native and performant deep-copy in Javascript? That even works with newer stuff like Maps and Sets?
If so, you can leave a comment here on why that would be useful for you! Please useful comments only, not just "+1"s
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During form submission, newlines get normalized to CRLF. That newline normalization is more complex than you might think. Here is a deep dive on the recent changes in that area:
blog.whatwg.org/newline-normal
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So over the past few months I've been working with on fixing the differences in how browsers normalize newlines in form submissions, resulting in 3 pull requests to (and an editorial one to ) that were merged today. 1/3
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Add newline normalization to form payloads (thanks andreubotella!)
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Add createConicGradient() to CanvasRenderingContext2D (thanks yiyix!)
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Add color space support for 2D canvas and ImageData (thanks ccameron-chromium!)
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Add policy container (thanks antosart!)
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Add more text modifier properties to 2d canvas (thanks yiyix!)
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Add imperative slot assignment API (thanks mfreed7!)
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Move the focus to the previously focused element for dialog.close() (thanks sefeng211!)
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A new post from on the blog, about the 's new "Accessibility considerations" section for each element: blog.whatwg.org/considering-ac
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When setting up a new desktop computer, is installing fonts that assign Tamil glyphs to windows-1252 high half code points still necessary in order to read Tamil Web content that one in practice encounters in India?
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Just published a post on the blog on the HTML focus spec overhaul that and I worked on. Special thanks for kickstarting this, and the focus puns :) It took a few months and ~15 PRs/issues, one might say this is my... magnum focus. blog.whatwg.org/focusing-on-fo
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A really good interview with about and how to contribute to standards 👌
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Recording Modern Web Podcast live now - with @domfarolino about standards, how to get involved, etc.
@robocell and I are having a blast @moderndotweb - come ask questions! :) youtube.com/watch?v=X9aVFr #modernweb #whatwg #w3c
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github.com/whatwg/html/co Add requestAnimationFrame() in workers
Fixes #3587. Based on the proposal at
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Just released `whatwg-url`: a #Python implementation of #URL Living Standard. Compatible interfaces for urllib's urlparse and urljoin included! 🎉
GitHub: github.com/SethMichaelLar
PyPI:
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12/ @domfarolino is a student at the U of Cincinnati who, when he's not in class, is also a web standards editor & core committer to @ChromiumDev. He's going to talk about his journey into OSS, demystify the world of Web Standards and encourage more of you all to get involved! 
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github.com/whatwg/encodin Describe the relationship between encodings and Unicode encoding schemes
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The is getting some amazing work done by (fixing document.open() and thereby drastically simplifying the core architecture) and (defining the rendering of fieldset and legend elements and giving developers control over them). 🎉
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github.com/whatwg/url/com Define hosts' public suffix and registrable domain, as well as same site
This provides the underpinnings needed ...
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github.com/whatwg/dom/com Standardize window.event
Too many people like their global variables.
Tests: github.com/web-platform-...
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Given <td hidden>, what do you expect to happen? Note that display: none will rearrange the cells, and visibility: hidden preserves the space the cell would have if it were rendered.
- display: none34%
- visibility: hidden42.6%
- see results23.5%
162 votesFinal results
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github.com/whatwg/url/com Change query state slightly to better deal with non-UTF-8 encodings
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github.com/whatwg/fetch/c CORB: protecting certain nosniff and 206 responses
CORB is an additional filter for responses of cross-origin "n...
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github.com/whatwg/html/co <meta http-equiv=set-cookie> is now a no-op
Tests: cookies/meta-blocked.html in web-platform-tests.
Closes #1...
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