PubStatus
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This document contains current data regarding the Publication Status of specifications being developed by the Web Apps WG. The data is provided in three tables: 1) API Specifications; 2) Widgets Specifications; 3) Specs NO Longer Active.
Note the WG's Charter enumerates all of the WG's deliverables.
Please see the section Table Key for information regarding interpreting the data in the tables.
Contents |
API Specifications
The specifications are listed in alphabetical order ...
| API Specifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spec, Active Editor(s) | Last TR Publication | Type | Remarks | Testing | Plans |
| AppCache NG, @TBD | N/A | N/A | 26-Mar-2013 Proposal by Jonas Sicking | @TBD | Work on Use Cases; Continue to flesh out Jonas' proposal. |
| Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), Anne van Kesteren | 29 Jan 2013 | CR | Implementations: see CanIUse.com
This spec is a joint deliverable with the Web Application Security WG | Test Facilitator: Odin Hørthe Omdal;
WebApps WG's CORS Test Suite WebAppSec WG's CORS Test Suite; Status: 85% complete | CR Interop testing |
| Clipboard APIs and Events, Hallvord Steen | 11 Apr 2013 | WD | Bugzilla Database; | Test Suite Test Facilitator: Hallvord Steen;
Status: 85% complete | Publish periodic WDs until the spec is feature complete.
See Hallvord's 11-Mar-2013 status report. |
| Custom Elements, Dimitri Glazkov | 14 May 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | |
| DOM4, Lachlan Hunt | 06 Dec 2012 | WD | Bugzilla database; this spec was previously titled "DOM Core". | Test Facilitator: Aryeh Gregor;
Test Suite (Mirror); Approved Tests; Status: 50% complete | Publish periodic WDs until the spec is feature complete. |
| DOM Level 3 Events, Travis Leithead, Gary Kačmarčík | 06 Sep 2012 | LCWD | Discussions on www-dom mail list. See also the DOM3Events Wiki Page. | Test Facilitators: Gary Kačmarčík, Alex Kuang;
Test Suite (Mirror); Approved Tests; Status: 75% complete | Address 6-Sep-2012 LC comments (LC comment deadline ended September 27).
Publish another LCWD. |
| DOM Parsing and Serialization; Travis Leithead | 20 Sep 2012 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Test Suite Status: ??% complete | Fix remaining bug, issue CfC for LCWD, work on test suite |
| File API, Arun Ranganathan, Jonas Sicking | 25 Oct 2012 | WD | Bugzilla Database;
File API Implementation data from caniuse.com; File Reader Implementations data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: Kris Krueger;
Status: 20% complete | Publish LC when all bugs and issues resolved |
| File API: Directories and System, Eric Uhrhane | 17 Apr 2012 | WD | Bugzilla Database;
Implementation data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | Publish periodic WDs until the spec is feature complete; dependency on File: API.
See Mozilla's 25-Apr-2013 alternate FileSystem API proposal |
| File API: Writer, Eric Uhrhane | 17 Apr 2012 | WD | Bugzilla Database;
Implementation data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | Publish periodic WDs until the spec is feature complete; dependency on File: API.
See Mozilla's 25-Apr-2013 alternate FileSystem API proposal |
| Fullscreen API, Tantek Çelik | 03 Jul 2012 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database;
This is a Joint Deliverable with the CSS WG | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | No active work on WebApps' version of the spec, although work on the WHATWG's Fullscreen spec is active. When the WHATWG's version of the spec is at "last call", the spec will be copied to WebApps' version. |
| Gamepad, Scott Graham and Ted Mielczarek | 29 May 2012 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | |
| HTML Imports, Dimitri Glazkov | 14 May 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | |
| Indexed Database API, Jonas Sicking, Eliot Graff, Joshua Bell | 04 Jul 2013 | CR | Bugzilla database;
Implementation data from caniuse.com; feature list for v2. Comment Tracking Document for the 16-May-2013 LCWD. | Test Facilitator: Alex Kuang;
Status: 90% complete | Complete test suite; Interop testing |
| Input Method Editor API, Hironori Bono (坊野 博典) and Kenji Baheux | 15 Aug 2013 | WD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: Mike™ Smith;
Status: NO test suite | |
| Pointer Lock, Vincent Scheib | 29 May 2012 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: Vincent Scheib;
Status: NO test suite | Blocked on Mozilla security review. |
| Progress Events, Jungkee Song | 22 Sep 2011 | CR | Bugzilla Database; | Test Facilitator: Jungkee Song;
Status: 100% complete; Approved tests | Blocked on implementations of the CR; see Interop Data. |
| Push API, Bryan Sullivan and Eduardo Fullea Carrera | 15 Aug 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database; | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | |
| Quota Management API, Kinuko Yasuda | 03 Jul 2012 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database; | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | |
| Selectors API Level 1, Lachlan Hunt | 21 Feb 2013 | REC | Bugzilla Database; | Test Facilitator: Chaals McCathieNevile;
Test Suite; Selectors API Level 1 Implementation Report; Status: 100% complete; Approved tests | No further work is planned for v1 |
| Selectors API Level 2, Lachlan Hunt | 28 Jun 2012 | WD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: Chaals McCathieNevile;
Status: @TBD | Publish periodic WDs until the spec is feature complete |
| Server-Sent Events, Ian Hickson | 11 December 2012 | CR | Bugzilla database;
Implementation data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: Tina Zhao;
Status: 95% complete and Approved | Fix a few bugs Tina identified in the test suite, merge the Pull Request(s) and then do CR interop testing |
| Shadow DOM, Dimitri Glazkov | 14 May 2013 | WD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: Dimitri Glazkov;
Status: @TBD | |
| Screen Orientation API, Mounir Lamouri | 06 Dec 2012 | WD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | |
| Streams API, Feras Moussa | 14 Feb 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: @TBD;
Status: NO test suite | Publish FPWD in February 2013 |
| UI Events, Travis Leithead, Gary Kacmarcik | 25 Jul 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: TBD | |
| URL, @TBD | 24 May 2012 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: Mike Smith;
Status: NO test suite | |
| Manifest for Web Applications, Marcos Caceres | ED | Test Facilitator: Sebastian Godard;
Status: NO test suite | |||
| Web Components Introduction, Dimitri Glazkov, Dominic Cooney | 06 Jun 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | No test suite will be created for this non-normative (informative) document | |
| Web IDL, Cameron McCormack | 19 Apr 2012 | CR | Technical discussions on public-script-coord mail list. | Test Facilitator: Travis Leithead;
Web IDL Test generator for testharness.js by Dom; Web IDL Test Plan by Travis; Specs that use WebIDL; Status: 25% complete | Work on test suite. |
| HTML5 Web Messaging, Ian Hickson | 01 May 2012 | CR | Bugzilla database
Implementation data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: Alex Kuang;
Status: 100% complete; Approved tests | Interop testing required to exit CR |
| Web Sockets API, Ian Hickson | 20 Sep 2012 | CR | Dependency on RFC6455 The WebSocket Protocol. Protocol technical discussions on IETF's hybi mail list.
Bugzilla database. Implementation data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: Kris Krueger;
Status: 100% complete; Approved tests | Interop testing required to exit CR. |
| Web Storage, Ian Hickson | 30 Jul 2013 | REC | Bugzilla database;
Implementation data from caniuse.com | Test Facilitator: Jong-Heun Lee
Status: 100% complete and approved. | Implementation Report |
| Web Workers, Ian Hickson | 01 May 2012 | CR | Bugzilla database;
Implementation data from caniuse.com; | Test Facilitator: Simon Pieters;
Status: approaching 100% complete; Approved tests | Some additional tests are needed and start Interop testing required to exit CR. |
| XmlHttpRequest, Julian Aubourg, Jungkee Song, Hallvord Steen | 06 Dec 2012 | WD | Bugzilla Database | Test Facilitator: Julian Aubourg;
Status: 50% complete | Publish periodic WDs until the spec is feature complete |
Widget Specifications
The specifications are listed in order of spec maturity level (Type column) ...
| Widgets Specifications | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name of Spec (Editor's Draft) | Last TR Publication | Type | Remarks | Testing | Plans |
| Packaged Web Apps (Widgets) - Packaging and XML Configuration 2nd Edition | 27 Nov 2012 | REC | Implementation Report | Test Facilitator: Marcos Caceres | No additional work is planned. |
| Widget Access Request Policy (WARP) | 07 Feb 2012 | REC | Test Facilitator: Marcos Caceres | No additional work is planned. | |
| view-mode Media Feature | 19 Jun 2012 | REC | Implementation Report | Test Facilitator: Marcos Caceres | No additional work is planned. |
| Digital Signatures for Widgets | 18 Apr 2013 | REC | Implementation Report | Test Facilitator: Marcos Caceres | No additional work is planned. |
| Widget Interface (TWI) | 22 May 2012 | PR | Implementation Report | Test Facilitator: Marcos Caceres | Recommendation is blocked until the Web IDL specification is published as Proposed Recommendations |
See also:
- Widget testing wiki
- CVS repository for Widgets specs and test suites
- Widget Family of Specs (includes non-published documents)
Specs NO Longer Active
The documents and specifications in the following table are NO longer active. The order of the specs is the most recently published document first.
| Name of Spec (Editor's Draft) | Last TR Publication | Type | Remarks | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widget Updates | 06 Jun 2013 | WG Note | See Apple's Patent Disclosure, excluded claims, PAG Recommendations (published 8-Oct-2009) | Work on this specification ended with the publication of the WG Note |
| Web Intents, Greg Billock, James Hawkins and Paul Kinlan | 23 May 2013 | WG Note | This was a joint deliverable with the Device API WG and discussions occured on the public-web-intents mail list.
Greg Billock announced on 1-Nov-2012 Chrome's implementation of Web Intents was disabled. | Work on this specification ended with the publication of the WG Note |
| Java bindings for Web IDL, Cameron McCormack | 14 May 2013 | WG Note | Technical discussions on public-script-coord mail list; | Work on this specification ended with the publication of the WG Note. |
| HTML Templates, Dimitri Glazkov, Rafael Weinstein, Tony Ross | 14 Feb 2013 | FPWD | Bugzilla Database | Work on this spec stopped because the spec was moved into the HTML(5) spec (see Templates). |
| From-Origin Header | 29 May 2012 | WG Note | X-Frame-Options discussions are on the IETF's websec mail list | The group agreed to stop work on this spec and to publish it as a WG Note |
| XBL2 Spec, Ian Hickson | 24 May 2012 | WG Note | See Mozilla implementation plans from Jonas Sicking (5-May-2010).
See XBL2 changes announced by Ian Hickson on 3-Sep-2010 Implementation feedback: see XBL2 and "Web XBL" thread | Work on this spec stopped in deference to Web Components |
| Widget URIs | 13 Mar 2012 | WG Note | Work on this specification stopped with the publication of the WG Note. | |
| XmlHttpRequest (Level 1) | 17 Jan 2012 | WG Note | This specification was referred to as XHR Level 1 and was published as a Candidate Recommendation | Work on this specification has stopped but work on this version of XHR continues |
| Requirements for Standardizing Widgets | 27 Sep 2011 | WG Note | This is a non-normative document (i.e. contains no testable assertions). Need to add reqs from other widget specs: WARP, TWI, View Mode Media Feature, etc. specs. | Work on this document ended with the publication of the Working Group Note. |
| Programmable HTTP Caching and Serving | 29 Mar 2011 | WG Note | This spec was formerly titled DataCache API | Work on this specification ended with the publication of the WG Note. |
| Web SQL Database | 18 Nov 2010 | WG Note | This spec was formerly titled Web Database.
Implementation data from caniuse.com | Work on this specification ended with the publication of the WG Note. |
| Uniform Messaging Policy (UMP) | 26 Jan 2010 | FPWD | See Comparison of CORS and UMP | Work on this specification stopped when the WG rechartered in April 2012 |
| Element Traversal | 22 Dec 2008 | REC | A W3C Recommendation was published 22 Dec 2008. Errata published 16-Feb-2009. | Integrated into DOM4; no new publications planned |
| Widgets 1.0: Landscape | 14 Apr 2008 | FPWD | This is a non-normative document (i.e. contains no testable assertions). It is a snapshot from April 2008.
Open Actions: Action-168, Action-170 | In September 2011, the WG agreed this document will not be published again. |
| XBL2 Primer, Lachlan Hunt | 18 Jul 2007 | FPWD | Work on this Primer stopped in deference to Web Components |
Table Key
The tables above use the following abbreviations and conventions:
- The link in the Name of Spec' column is the document's Editor's Draft
- The Last Publication column contains the date of the most recent formal publication as a W3C Technical Report
- ED = Editor's Draft
- WG Note = Working Group Note
- FPWD = First Public Working Draft
- WD = Working Draft
- LC, LCWD = Last Call (Working Draft)
- CR = Candidate Recommendation
- PR = Proposed Recommendation
- REC = Recommendation
- TF = Test Facilitator
- No Formal Pub = the document has not yet been formally published by the W3C as a Technical Report.
Preliminary specs in Progress
In a few cases, we have specifications in progress but they are not listed in one of the above tables because the draft is very preliminary. See WebApps' three CVS directories (WAF, WebAPI and HTML) for more information.
