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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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<title>HTML Working Group</title>
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<div id="template">
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<ul id="navbar" style="font-size: .6em">
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<li><a href="#scope">Scope</a></li>
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<li><a href="#deliverables">Deliverables</a></li>
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<li><a href="#coordination">Dependencies</a></li>
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<li><a href="#participation">Participation</a></li>
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<li><a href="#communication">Communication</a></li>
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<li><a href="#decisions">Decision Policy</a></li>
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<li><a href="#patentpolicy">Patent Policy </a></li>
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<li><a href="#about">About this Charter</a></li>
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<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/"><img alt="W3C" height="48"
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src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home" width="72" /></a> <a class="domainlogo"
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href="http://www.w3.org/Interaction/"><img
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src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/interaction" alt="Interaction Domain" /></a> </p>
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<h1 id="title">HTML Working Group Charter</h1>
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<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the HTML Working Group, part
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of the <a href="../../MarkUp/Activity">HTML Activity</a>, is to continue the
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evolution of HTML (including classic HTML and XML syntaxes). </p>
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<div class="noprint">
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<p class="join"><a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/40318/join">Join the
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HTML Working Group</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<table class="summary-table">
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<tbody>
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<tr id="Duration">
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">End date</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">31 December 2014</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Confidentiality</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Proceedings are <a
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href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/comm.html#confidentiality-levels">Public</a></td>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Chair</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><em>Sam Ruby, IBM,<br />
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Paul Cotton, Microsoft,<br />
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Maciej Stachowiak, Apple</em>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Team Contact<br />
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(FTE %: 45)</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><em>Michael Smith, W3C/Keio</em></td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Usual Meeting Schedule</th>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Teleconferences: up to 1 per week, as needed
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<br />
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Face-to-face: up to 2 per year </td>
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</table>
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<div class="scope">
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<h2 id="scope">Scope</h2>
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<p>This group will maintain and produce incremental revisions to the HTML
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specification, which includes the series of specifications previously published
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as XHTML version 1. Both XML and 'classic HTML' syntaxes will be produced.</p>
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<p>The Group will define conformance and parsing requirements for 'classic
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HTML', taking into account legacy implementations; the Group will not assume
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that an SGML parser is used for 'classic HTML'.</p>
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<p>The Group will monitor implementation of and conformance to the HTML
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specification, construct test suites, and from them produce interoperability
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reports.</p>
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<p>The Group may hold Workshops, Interoperability Meetings, and other events as
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required to fulfill its mission.</p>
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<p>Data and canvas are reasonable areas of work for the group. On the one hand, they elaborate areas touched on in HTML4. On the other
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hand, these elaborations are much deeper than the features of HTML4,
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but also they form separate subsystems, and these subsystems have
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strong overlaps with other design areas.</p>
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<p>It is important that:</p>
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<ol style='list-style-type: lower-alpha'>
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<li>the design be modular;</li>
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<li>the specifications be kept modular;</li>
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<li>the communities of expertise of the respective fields (graphics and data) be involved in the design process.</li>
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</ol>
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</div>
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<h3 id="success">Success Criteria</h3>
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<div>
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<p>The HTML Working Group's work will be considered a success if there are
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multiple independent complete and interoperable implementations of its
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deliverable that are widely used.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Production of stable documents addressing the work items listed in the <a
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href="#deliverables">Deliverables</a> section.</li>
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<li>Test suites for each deliverable with conformance criteria</li>
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<li>Availability of multiple, independent, interoperable implementations of
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each deliverable with conformance criteria;, as demonstrated by an
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implementation report (summarizing implementation status against the
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relevant test suite) for each testable class of product, including user
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agents</li>
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<li>Availability of authoring tools and validation tools.</li>
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<li>User community and industry adoption of the group deliverables.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2 id="deliverables">Deliverables</h2>
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<h3>New publications and Milestones</h3>
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<p>There is a single specification deliverable for the HTML Working Group, the
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HTML specification, a platform-neutral and device-independent design with the
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following items in scope: </p>
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<ul>
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<li>A language evolved from HTML4 for describing the semantics of documents
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and applications on the World Wide Web. This will be a complete
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specification, not a <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/13-pubrules-about#delta">delta
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specification</a>.
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</li>
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<li>An extensible, serialized form of such a language, using XML.</li>
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<li>A serialized form of such a language using a defined, non-XML syntax
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compatible with the 'classic HTML' parsers of existing Web browsers.</li>
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<li>Document Object Model (DOM) interfaces providing APIs for such a
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language.</li>
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<li>Forms and common UI widgets such as progress bars, datagrids, menus, and
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other controls.</li>
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<li>APIs for the manipulation of linked media.</li>
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<li>Editing APIs and user-driven WYSIWYG editing features.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The following is a non-restrictive list of the
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documents that are part of the deliverables of the Working Group:</p>
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<ul id='spec_list'>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/">HTML 5</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/">HTML+RDFa</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/">HTML Microdata</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/">HTML Canvas 2D Context</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/">HTML: The Markup Language</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/">HTML5 diffs from HTML4</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/">Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/html-alt-techniques/'>HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>The HTML WG is encouraged to provide a mechanism to permit independently
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developed vocabularies such as Internationalization Tag Set (ITS), Ruby, and
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RDFa to be mixed into HTML documents. Whether this occurs through the
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extensibility mechanism of XML, whether it is also allowed in the classic HTML
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serialization, and whether it uses the DTD and Schema modularization
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techniques, is for the HTML WG to determine.</p>
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<p>The following features are expected to be obtained by integrating
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deliverables of the <a href="/2006/webapi/">Web APIs Working Group</a>. They
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are listed here so that they may be developed in the case where the Web APIs
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Working Group is not able to produce the specifications.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Data storage APIs.</li>
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<li>Networking APIs for server-push, asynchronous two-way client-server
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communication, peer-to-peer communication, and client-side cross-domain
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communication.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Note that some of the features mentioned above may be obtained by
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integrating deliverables of the Web APIs Working Group. </p>
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<h3 id="other">Other Deliverables</h3>
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<p id="testsuite">The Group will create a comprehensive <em>test suite</em> for
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the HTML specification. </p>
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<p id="validate">The Group will ensure that<em>validation tools</em> are
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available, possibly from third parties, for the HTML specification. Validation
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does not mean DTD validation; validation using schemas (such as W3C XML Schema,
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RelaxNG, Schematron) and validation which is tolerant of extensions in other
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namespaces (for example using NVDL) is encouraged, as well as automated
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checking of items from the specification prose.</p>
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<p>The Group will monitor, track, and encourage implementation of HTML, both
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during Candidate Recommendation and afterwards, to encourage adoption.</p>
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<h3>Milestones</h3>
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<table class="roadmap" width="80%">
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<caption>Milestones </caption>
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<tfoot>
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<tr>
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<td colspan="6" rowspan="1">Note: The group will document significant
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changes from this initial schedule on the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">group home page</a>.</td>
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</tr>
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</tfoot>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">Specification</th>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
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title="First Working Draft">FPWD</acronym></th>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
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title="Last Call Working Draft">LC</acronym></th>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
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title="Canditate Recommendation">CR</acronym></th>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
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title="Proposed Recommendation">PR</acronym></th>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1"><acronym
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title="Recommendation">Rec</acronym></th>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th rowspan="1" colspan="1">HTML5 and <a href='#spec_list'>other deliverables</a></th>
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<td class="WD1" rowspan="1" colspan="1">N/A</td>
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<td class="LC" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2011 Q2</td>
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<td class="CR" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2012 Q2</td>
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<td class="PR" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2014 Q1</td>
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<td class="REC" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2014 Q2</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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</div>
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<h2 id="coordination">Dependencies and Liaison</h2>
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<p>The following is a list of known dependencies and liaisons with other W3C
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groups at the time this charter was written. Liaison with other W3C groups can
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take advantage of a broad range of mechanisms such as cross membership, reviews
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of drafts produced by other groups, joint meetings etc., and whenever
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appropriate, the HTML Working Group will also coordinate with groups not listed
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here.</p>
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<h3 id="dependencies">Dependencies</h3>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/">Web APIs Working Group</a></dt>
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<dd>HTML will integrate APIs developed by this Working Group</dd>
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<dt id="forms-tf">Forms Task Force</dt>
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<dd>The HTML WG and the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/Group/">Forms Working Group</a> will
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work together in this Task Force to ensure that the new HTML forms and
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the new <dfn>XForms Transitional</dfn> have architectural consistency and
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that document authors can transition between them </dd>
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</dl>
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<h3 id="liaisons">Liaisons</h3>
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<dl>
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<dt><a id="cdf" class="member" name="cdf"
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href="http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/Group/">Compound Document Formats Working
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Group</a></dt>
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<dd>The HTML Working Group cooperates with this group to ensure that HTML
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can be readily combined with other W3C specifications</dd>
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<dt><a id="css" class="member" name="css"
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href="http://www.w3.org/Style/Group/">Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working
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Group</a> and <a id="xsl" class="member" name="xsl"
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href="http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/">Extensible Stylesheet Language
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(XSL) Working Group</a></dt>
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<dd>The work of the HTML Working Group will be coordinated with these
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groups on presentation issues.</dd>
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<dt><a id="hcg" class="member" name="hcg"
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href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/CoordGroup/">Hypertext Coordination
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Group</a></dt>
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<dd>The Hypertext Coordination Group is the primary place for the HTML
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Working Group for coordination with other Working Groups within the W3C.
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The Chair will participate in the regular Hypertext Coordination Group
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meetings and ensure that reviews between Working Groups are planned and
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carried out so as to meet requirements for deliverables and
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deadlines.</dd>
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<dt><a id="i18n" class="member" name="i18n"
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href="http://www.w3.org/International/Group/">Internationalization Working
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Group</a></dt>
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<dd>The HTML Working Group will cooperate with this group to ensure HTML
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provides effective support for internationalization.</dd>
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<dt><a id="tag" class="member" href="/2001/tag">Technical Architecture Group
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(TAG)</a> </dt>
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<dd>The HTML WG will liaise with the TAG, in particular regarding issue <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html?type=1#TagSoupIntegration-54">TagSoupIntegration-54</a>.</dd>
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<dt><a id="wai" name="wai" href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/">Web Accessibility
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Initiative (WAI)</a></dt>
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<dd>The HTML Working Group will cooperate with the Web Accessibility
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Initiative to ensure that the deliverables will satisfy accessibility
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requirements. Coordination with WAI will be primarily conducted through
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the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/">Protocol and Formats Working
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Group</a>, but direct coordination with other WAI groups, such as <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
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Working Group</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/">User Agent
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Accessibility Guidelines Working Group</a>, will also be done when
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appropriate.</dd>
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</dl>
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<div id="conformance">
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<p>Furthermore, HTML Working Group expects to follow these W3C
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Recommendations:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/TR/qaframe-spec/">QA Framework: Specification
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Guidelines</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="/TR/charmod/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0:
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Fundamentals</a></li>
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<li><a href="/TR/webarch/">Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume
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I</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h2>Relationship to External Groups</h2>
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<dl>
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<dt>Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (<a
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href="http://www.whatwg.org/">WHATWG</a>)</dt>
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<dd>The HTML Working Group will actively pursue convergence with WHATWG,
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encouraging open participation within the bounds of the W3C patent policy
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and available resources.</dd>
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</dl>
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<div class="participation">
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<h2 id="participation">Participation</h2>
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<p>To be successful, the HTML Working Group is expected to have active
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participation of a diverse community for its duration. If fewer than three
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implementors (i.e., browser vendors) are participating in the Working Group,
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its charter should be re-examined by the W3C. </p>
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<p>The co-chairs and specification Editors are expected to contribute one to
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two days per week towards the Working Group. There is no minimum requirement
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for other Participants. The Team Contact is expected to spend 0.5FTE for the
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duration of the Working Group, which will be supplemented by other members of
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the W3C team (management, communications, systems support) in order to support
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participation by a large community. </p>
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<p>W3C Members may join the Working Group using the regular W3C process. </p>
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<p>The HTML Working Group also welcomes participation from non-Members. This
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may take the form of questions and comments on the mailing list or IRC channel,
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for which there is no formal requirement, or technical submissions for
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consideration, for which the participant must agree to Royalty-Free licensing
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under the W3C Patent Policy. </p>
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</div>
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<div class="communication">
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<h2 id="communication">Communication</h2>
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<p>This group primarily conducts its technical work on a Public mailing list <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/">public-html</a>. It is
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referred to in the rest of this document as <em>the Working Group mailing
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list</em>.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/">www-html</a>
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mailing list remains available for general discussion of HTML, including topics
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outside the scope of this Working Group.</p>
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<p>Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face
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meetings, teleconferences, etc.) will be available from the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/">HTML Working Group home page</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="decisions">
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<h2 id="decisions">Decision Policy</h2>
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<p>As explained in the Process Document (<a
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href="/Consortium/Process/policies#Consensus">section 3.3</a>), this group will
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seek to make decisions when there is consensus. We expect that typically, an
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editor makes an initial proposal, which is refined in discussion with Working
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Group members and other reviewers, and consensus emerges with little formal
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decision-making. However, if a decision is necessary for timely progress, but
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after due consideration of different opinions, consensus is not achieved, the
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Chair should put a question (allowing for remote, asynchronous participation
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using, for example, email and/or web-based survey techniques) and record a
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decision and any objections, and consider the matter resolved, at least until
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new information becomes available. </p>
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<p>This charter is written in accordance with <a
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href="/Consortium/Process/policies#Votes">Section 3.4, Votes</a> of the W3C
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Process Document and includes no voting procedures beyond what the Process
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Document requires.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="patent">
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<h2 id="patentpolicy">Patent Policy </h2>
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<p>This Working Group operates under the <a
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href="/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">W3C Patent Policy</a> (5 February
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2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to
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issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a
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Royalty-Free basis.</p>
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<p>For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see
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the <a href="/2004/01/pp-impl/">W3C Patent Policy Implementation</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<h2 id="about">About this Charter</h2>
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<p>This charter for the HTML Working Group has been created according to <a
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href="/Consortium/Process/groups#GAGeneral">section 6.2</a> of the <a
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