W3C Relaunches HTML Activity: Developers and Browser Vendors Shape
HTML Future
Staff, W3C Announcement
W3C has announced a new Charter for the HTML Working Group, extending
through 2010. The group will maintain and produce incremental revisions
to the HTML specification, which includes the series of specifications
previously published as XHTML version 1. Both XML and 'classic HTML'
syntaxes will be produced. The Working Group will define conformance
and parsing requirements for 'classic HTML', taking into account legacy
implementations; the Group will not assume that an SGML parser is used
for 'classic HTML'. New publications and milestones include: (1) A
language evolved from HTML4 for describing the semantics of documents
and applications on the World Wide Web; this will be a complete
specification, not a delta specification; (2) An extensible, serialized
form of such a language, using XML; (3) A serialized form of such a
language using a defined, non-XML syntax compatible with the 'classic
HTML' parsers of existing Web browsers; (4) Document Object Model (DOM)
interfaces providing APIs for such a language; (5) Forms and common UI
widgets such as progress bars, datagrids, menus, and other controls;
(6) APIs for the manipulation of linked media, editing APIs and user-
driven WYSIWYG editing features. The HTML WG is encouraged to provide
a mechanism to permit independently developed vocabularies such as
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS), Ruby, and RDFa to be mixed into
HTML documents. Whether this occurs through the extensibility mechanism
of XML, whether it is also allowed in the classic HTML serialization,
and whether it uses the DTD and Schema modularization techniques, is
for the HTML WG to determine. The Group will create a comprehensive
test suite for the HTML specification. The Group will ensure that
validation tools are available, possibly from third parties, for the
HTML specification. Validation does not mean DTD validation; validation
using schemas (such as W3C XML Schema, RelaxNG, Schematron) and
validation which is tolerant of extensions in other namespaces (for
example using ISO DSDL/NVDL) is encouraged, as well as automated
checking of items from the specification prose. The Group will monitor,
track, and encourage implementation of HTML, both during Candidate
Recommendation and afterwards, to encourage adoption. In addition to
the new HTML and XHTML 2 Working Groups, W3C is also pleased to
recharter the Hypertext Coordination Group and charter the Forms
Working Group. The Forms Working Group will continue work on the XForms
architecture, which has seen significant adoption in a variety of
platforms.
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html
See also the announcement: http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-pressrelease
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