Welcome to our newest Living Standard, @urlpatterns!

RT @C4nadaHonk: How do you pronounce "WHATWG"?

Recently @nomsternom has been tackling technical debt across the @fetchstandard, @htmlstandard, and @webperfwg specs. Here's his post about this retro-specification journey on the WHATWG blog:

Welcome to our new Living Standards: @webidl, @testutils, @whatsockets, and (soon) @whatfilesystem!

RT @fetchstandard: Allow particular Range header values without a CORS preflight (thanks jakearchibald!)

Aside from @webidl we also added @testutils today. Test Utils will standardize functionality for more involved cross-browser tests.

🎉 (Changes to Web IDL can be tracked via @webidl.)

RT @htmlstandard: Add a "cancel" event for when file upload selection is unchanged

RT @htmlstandard: Add roundRect() canvas method (thanks mysteryDate!)

RT @htmlstandard: Introduce CSS module scripts (thanks dandclark!)

RT @domenic: Are you a library author that does "scheduling" of functions of some sort? Maybe those functions throw exceptions, and you'd l…

RT @aahfrena: Have you ever wanted a browser-native and performant deep-copy in Javascript? That even works with newer stuff like Maps and…

RT @hsivonen: New blog post: Bogo-XML Declaration Returns to Gecko

The WHATWG community is now using Matrix to chat. Join us:

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 @htmlstandard changes in that area:

RT @htmlstandard: Add createConicGradient() to CanvasRenderingContext2D (thanks yiyix!)

RT @htmlstandard: Add color space support for 2D canvas and ImageData (thanks ccameron-chromium!)

RT @htmlstandard: Add policy container (thanks antosart!)

RT @htmlstandard: Add more text modifier properties to 2d canvas (thanks yiyix!)

Update from the Steering Group: