Welcome to the WHATWG community

Maintaining and evolving HTML since 2004

Want to get involved and help out? See a list of things for which we need volunteers and jump in!

FAQ Get answers to your questions

Blog Read and contribute to the WHATWG blog

Demos Play with demos today or watch a video of some demos

Help Send questions and help others in the help@whatwg.org mailing list

IRC Chat with other members of the WHATWG community

Forums Talk with Web designers about how to write HTML5

Specs Read the WHATWG proposals (HTML5, Web Workers)

Mailing List Comment on the WHATWG proposals and send proposals of your own

Wiki Read and contribute to the WHATWG wiki

Who can join the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group?

The working group mailing list is an open subscription public mailing list and anyone is welcome to contribute.

The focus of this working group is limited to technologies that will need to be directly implemented in Web browsers. It is not the right forum for very domain-specific proposals that would not be suitable for implementation in, for instance, Safari, Firefox, or Opera. Having said that, those technologies do affect other implementations, and we try to take that into account when designing them.

For more details, see our charter.

What's the relationship between the WHATWG and the HTML working group at the W3C?

The W3C HTML working group and the WHATWG are working on the same specification, with the same editor.

If you want to join the HTML working group, we have summarised the steps needed to join the HTML working group. Feedback can either be sent to the WHATWG mailing list, if you've subscribed, or filed in the HTML working group's Bugzilla instance.

Latest status: (unavailable)

The latest status is automatically updated when the spec changes. To see the list of recent checkins, look at the tracker page. Manually set a new status...

Anyone is allowed to post a message; if you would like to post one, please ask on the IRC channel for the password.

Queries should be directed either to the mailing list or to Ian Hickson, who is acting as a spokesman for the group.