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Welcome to our newest Living Standard, @urlpatterns! blog.whatwg.org/url-pattern-…
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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: blog.whatwg.org/retro-specif…
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Welcome to our new Living Standards: @webidl, @testutils, @whatsockets, and (soon) @whatfilesystem! blog.whatwg.org/new-living-s…
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Allow particular Range header values without a CORS preflight (thanks jakearchibald!) github.com/whatwg/fetch/comm…

Allow particular Range header values without a CORS preflight · whatwg/fetch@6f37b51

The allowed format aligns with the values the browser uses when requesting media and resuming downloads. Tests: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/31058. Fixes #1310.

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Aside from @webidl we also added @testutils today. Test Utils will standardize functionality for more involved cross-browser tests.
testutils@testutils5 Oct 2021
Test Utils is now a WHATWG Standard (thanks annevk!) github.com/whatwg/testutils/…

Test Utils is now a WHATWG Standard · whatwg/testutils@f3609d5

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🎉 (Changes to Web IDL can be tracked via @webidl.)
Anne van Kesteren@annevk5 Oct 2021
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 github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Add a "cancel" event for when file upload selection is unchanged · whatwg/html@9c4374f

Closes #6376.

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Add roundRect() canvas method (thanks mysteryDate!) github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Add roundRect() canvas method · whatwg/html@5c8cfae

Original proposal: https://github.com/fserb/canvas2D/blob/master/spec/roundrect.md. Closes #5619.

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Introduce CSS module scripts (thanks dandclark!) github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Introduce CSS module scripts · whatwg/html@3d45584

This change extends the JavaScript module system integration to include CSS module scripts, in addition to JavaScript module scripts. These allow web developers to load CSS into a component definit...

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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/pull/….

Introduce self.reportError() by annevk · Pull Request #1196 · whatwg/html

Fixes whatwg/console#50. At least two implementers are interested (and none opposed): Chrome Firefox Tests are written and can be reviewed and commented upon at: HTML: self.reportError() web...

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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 github.com/whatwg/html/pull/…

Expose structuredClone by surma · Pull Request #3414 · whatwg/html

This is in connection to #793, to make the discussion a bit more tangible. This is my first time touching the HTML spec and also my first time writing a spec section from scratch. I probably didn’t...

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New blog post: Bogo-XML Declaration Returns to Gecko hsivonen.fi/xml-decl/
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The WHATWG community is now using Matrix to chat. Join us: whatwg.org/chat
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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 @htmlstandard changes in that area: blog.whatwg.org/newline-norm…
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Add createConicGradient() to CanvasRenderingContext2D (thanks yiyix!) github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Add createConicGradient() to CanvasRenderingContext2D · whatwg/html@cf2dab0

Closes #5431.

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Add color space support for 2D canvas and ImageData (thanks ccameron-chromium!) github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Add color space support for 2D canvas and ImageData · whatwg/html@85cb202

This work was previously developed in https://github.com/WICG/canvas-color-space/blob/main/CanvasColorSpaceProposal.md and discussed in https://github.com/w3c/ColorWeb-CG. This does not yet tack...

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Add policy container (thanks antosart!) github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Add policy container · whatwg/html@30244b9

This change adds the policy container concept. See also https://github.com/antosart/policy-container-explained. A policy container serves as collection of policies to be applied to a document, Work...

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Add more text modifier properties to 2d canvas (thanks yiyix!) github.com/whatwg/html/commi…

Add more text modifier properties to 2d canvas · whatwg/html@9815caa

Tests: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/26179 & https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/28477.

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Update from the Steering Group: blog.whatwg.org/update-from-…
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