History of all Updates

Sep 19, 2018: changed status of "Web Audio API" from WD to CR
Aug 21, 2018: added "Geolocation Sensor"
Aug 7, 2018: changed status of "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1" from WD to CR
Aug 6, 2018: renamed "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Scoped Credentials (webauthn)" to "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 1 (webauthn)"
Jul 9, 2018: changed status of "User Timing Level 2" from WD to CR
Jul 3, 2018: changed status of "Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API" from WD to CR; added "WebRTC DSCP Control API" and "MediaStreamTrack Content Hints"
Jun 27, 2018: changed status of "Vehicle Information API Specification" from WD to NOTE
Jun 19, 2018: updated abstract of "Web Audio API"
Jun 5, 2018: changed status of "WebDriver" from PR to REC
May 10, 2018: changed status of "Pointer Events Level 2" from WD to CR; updated title of "Payment Method: Basic Card"
May 3, 2018: changed status of "Custom Elements" from WD to NOTE
Apr 25, 2018: changed status of "WebDriver" from CR to PR
Mar 27, 2018: changed status of "HTML5" from REC to SPSD
Mar 22, 2018: changed status of "Ambient Light Sensor", "Magnetometer", "Accelerometer", "Gyroscope", "Orientation Sensor", and "Generic Sensor API" from WD to CR
Feb 2, 2018: changed status of "HTML Media Capture" from PR to REC
Jan 30, 2018: changed status of "Indexed Database API 2.0" from PR to REC
Dec 14, 2017: changed status of "HTML 5.2" from PR to REC; added "HTML 5.3"; changed status of "Wake Lock API" from WD to CR
Dec 12, 2017: changed status of "Web Payments HTTP API 1.0" from WD to NOTE; added "Payment Method Manifest"
Dec 2, 2017: updated abstract of "Clear Site Data"
Nov 29, 2017: changed status of "HTML Media Capture" from CR to PR
Nov 16, 2017: changed status of "Indexed Database API 2.0" from CR to PR
Nov 2, 2017: changed status of "HTML 5.2" from CR to PR; changed status of "WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers" from WD to CR
Oct 28, 2017: changed status of "Preload" from WD to CR
Oct 19, 2017: changed status of "Remote Playback API" from WD to CR
Oct 13, 2017: added "Vehicle Information API Specification"
Oct 10, 2017: changed status of "Cooperative Scheduling of Background Tasks" from CR to PR
Oct 9, 2017: updated abstract of "HTML Microdata"
Oct 3, 2017: changed status of "Audio Output Devices API" from WD to CR
Sep 26, 2017: updated title and abstract of "Permissions"
Sep 18, 2017: changed status of "Encrypted Media Extensions" from PR to REC
Sep 14, 2017: changed status of "Payment Request API" and "Payment Method Identifiers"; added "Intersection Observer"
Sep 8, 2017: added "Paint Timing 1" and "Long Tasks API 1"
Aug 26, 2017: added "Motion Sensors Explainer"
Aug 10, 2017: changed status of "Indexed Database API 2.0" and "HTML 5.2" from WD to CR
Aug 3, 2017: changed status of "High Resolution Time Level 3" from WD to NOTE
Jul 13, 2017: changed status of "Server Timing" from NOTE to WD
Jul 6, 2017: added "Geolocation API Specification Level 2"
Jun 29, 2017: changed status of "HTML Microdata" from NOTE to WD
Jun 20, 2017: changed status of "FindText API" from WD to NOTE
Jun 1, 2017: changed status of "UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values" and "UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values" from WD to CR
May 30, 2017: changed status of "DeviceOrientation Event Specification" from CR to NOTE; changed status of "Geofencing API" from WD to NOTE
May 23, 2017: changed status of "Micropub" from PR to REC
May 18, 2017: added "Payment Handler API"; changed status of "TV Control API Specification" from WD to NOTE
May 12, 2017: added "Orientation Sensor"
Apr 21, 2017: added "W3C DOM 4.1"
Apr 14, 2017: changed status of "Beacon" from WD to CR
Apr 13, 2017: changed status of "Micropub" from CR to PR
Mar 31, 2017: changed status of "WebDriver" from WD to CR
Mar 21, 2017: added "Input Events Level 2"
Mar 20, 2017: renamed "Input Events (input-events)" to "Input Events Level 1 (input-events-1)"
Mar 16, 2017: changed status of "Encrypted Media Extensions" from CR to PR
Jan 31, 2017: changed status of "Cooperative Scheduling of Background Tasks" from WD to CR
Jan 26, 2017: changed status of "Referrer Policy" from WD to CR; changed status of "Web Cryptography API" from PR to REC
Jan 12, 2017: changed status of "Webmention" from PR to REC; changed status of "Network Service Discovery" from WD to NOTE
Dec 15, 2016: changed status of "Web Cryptography API" from CR to PR; changed status of "Content Security Policy Level 2" from PR to REC
Dec 8, 2016: changed status of "Performance Timeline Level 2" from WD to CR
Dec 6, 2016: changed status of "URL" from WD to NOTE
Nov 30, 2016: changed status of "Streams API" from WD to NOTE
Nov 22, 2016: added "Pointer Lock 2.0"; changed status of "Page Visibility 2" from WD to CR
Nov 17, 2016: changed status of "Media Source Extensions" from PR to REC
Nov 16, 2016: added "Infra"
Nov 9, 2016: changed status of "Content Security Policy Level 2" from CR to PR
Nov 3, 2016: added "Resource Timing Level 2"
Nov 2, 2016: added "User Timing Level 2"
Nov 1, 2016: changed status of "HTML 5.1" from PR to REC; changed status of "High Resolution Time Level 2" from WD to CR; changed status of "Webmention" from CR to PR
Oct 31, 2016: added "High Resolution Time Level 3"
Oct 28, 2016: added "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1"
Oct 27, 2016: changed status of "Pointer Lock" from PR to REC
Oct 26, 2016: updated abstract of "Beacon"
Oct 18, 2016: renamed "Vibration API (vibration)" to "Vibration API (Second Edition) (vibration)"
Oct 11, 2016: renamed "Service Workers (service-workers)" to "Service Workers 1 (service-workers-1)"
Oct 6, 2016: changed status of "XMLHttpRequest Level 1" from WD to NOTE
Oct 4, 2016: changed status of "Media Source Extensions" from CR to PR
Sep 29, 2016: HTML5 is POSIX!
Sep 28, 2016: renamed "Web Authentication: A Web API for accessing scoped credentials (webauthn)" to "Web Authentication: An API for accessing Scoped Credentials (webauthn)"
Sep 19, 2016: added "WebVR"
Sep 15, 2016: added "Web Payments HTTP API 1.0", "Web Payments HTTP Messages 1.0", and "TV Control API Specification", changed status of "Secure Contexts" from WD to CR; changed status of "HTML 5.1" from CR to PR
Sep 13, 2016: added "Magnetometer Sensor", "Gyroscope Sensor", "Accelerometer Sensor", "Content Security Policy: Cookie Controls", "Content Security Policy Pinning", and "Entry Point Regulation"
Sep 9, 2016: added "Content Security Policy: Embedded Enforcement"
Sep 5, 2016: Adding Individual Specification History
Aug 30, 2016: added "Input Events"; changed status of "Pointer Lock" from CR to PR
Aug 18, 2016: added "Indexed Database API 2.0" and "HTML 5.2"; changed status of "DeviceOrientation Event Specification" from WD to CR
Aug 16, 2016: changed status of "Micropub" from WD to CR
Jul 21, 2016: changed status of "Resource Timing Level 1" from WD to CR
Jul 19, 2016: added "Pointer Events Level 2"; updated "Proximity Sensor" information (title/abstract)
Jul 15, 2016: added "Remote Playback API"; changed status of "Presentation API" from WD to CR
Jul 12, 2016: working on better web site for HTML5 overview
Jul 7, 2016: changed status of "Battery Status API" from PR to CR
Jul 5, 2016: changed status of "Encrypted Media Extensions" from WD to CR
Jun 23, 2016: added "Page Visibility 2"; changed status of "Subresource Integrity" from CR to REC
Jun 22, 2016: changed status of "HTML 5.1" from WD to CR
Jun 7, 2016: added "Worklets Level 1" and "User Interface Security and the Visibility API"; changed status of "Reporting API 1" from WD to NOTE
May 31, 2016: added "Web Authentication: A Web API for accessing scoped credentials"
May 25, 2016: changed status of "Network Error Logging", "Server Timing", and "Frame Timing" from WD to NOTE
May 24, 2016: added "Webmention"
May 19, 2016: added "Media Capture and Streams"
May 15, 2016: changed status of "Quota Management API" and "Input Method Editor API" from WD to NOTE
Apr 26, 2016: renamed "Privileged Contexts (powerful-features)" to "Secure Contexts (secure-contexts)"
Apr 21, 2016: added "Payment Request API", "Payment Method Identifiers", and "Basic Card Payment"
Apr 19, 2016: changed status of "Web Storage (Second Edition)" from PR to REC
Apr 7, 2016: added "Reporting API 1"
Mar 29, 2016: changed status of "Battery Status API" from CR to PR; changed status of "WebCrypto Key Discovery" from WD to NOTE
Jan 28, 2016: added "Micropub"
Jan 26, 2016: added "Content Security Policy Level 3"
Dec 15, 2015: added "UI Events Specification", "UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values", and "UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values"
Nov 26, 2015: changed status of "Web Storage (Second Edition)" from CR to PR
Nov 21, 2015: changed status of "W3C DOM4" from PR to REC
Nov 20, 2015: changed status of "HTML Canvas 2D Context" from PR to REC
Nov 12, 2015: changed status of "Subresource Integrity" from WD to CR
Oct 23, 2015: changed status of "Web Notifications" from PR to REC
Oct 15, 2015: added "FindText API" and "Confinement with Origin Web Labels", changed status of "Generic Sensor API" to WD
Oct 9, 2015: added "Mixed Content" and "Selection API"
Oct 8, 2015: changed status of "Upgrade Insecure Requests" from WD to CR
Oct 7, 2015: changed status of "W3C DOM4" from WD to PR
Oct 1, 2015: added "A Transcript Extension for HTML"
Sep 30, 2015: added "HTML Canvas 2D Context, Level 2"; changed status of "W3C HTML Form HTTP Extensions" and "W3C HTML JSON form submission" from WD to NOTE
Sep 24, 2015: changed status of "Web Workers" from CR to WD; changed status of "HTML Canvas 2D Context" from CR to PR
Sep 23, 2015: changed status of "Timing Control for Script-Based Animations" from CR to NOTE; updated "Frame Timing" abstract
Sep 18, 2015: added "Cooperative Scheduling of Background Tasks"
Sep 16, 2015: added "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0"
Sep 10, 2015: changed status of "Web Notifications" from CR to PR
Sep 3, 2015: changed status of "Proximity Events" from CR to WD
Aug 27, 2015: changed status of "Application Lifecycle and Events to new 'abandoned' status."
Aug 6, 2015: changed status of "Runtime and Security Model for Web Applications" from WD to NOTE
Aug 4, 2015: added "Clear Site Data"
Jul 24, 2015: changed status of "The app: URL Scheme" and "TCP and UDP Socket API" from WD to NOTE; added "Application Lifecycle and Events"
Jul 23, 2015: changed status of "Task Scheduler API Specification" from WD to NOTE
Jul 21, 2015: added "Preload"
Jul 16, 2015: added "Performance Timeline Level 2"
Jul 11, 2015: added "Permissions for Device API Access"
Jul 9, 2015: added "HTML 5.1"
Jul 8, 2015: renamed "Web Animations (web-animations)" to "Web Animations (web-animations-1)"
Jul 7, 2015: added "ARIA in HTML"
Jun 22, 2015: changed status of "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing" from PR to REC; changed status of "Selectors API Level 1" from WD to REC; changed status of "Selectors API Level 2" and "XMLHttpRequest Level 2" from WD to NOTE
Jun 17, 2015: changed status of "DOM Parsing and Serialization" from WD to CR
Jun 16, 2015: changed status of "Web NFC API" from WD to NOTE
Jun 11, 2015: added WHATWG "Storage"
Jun 10, 2015: added "HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0", "Web Storage (Second Edition)", "FileSystem API", "Generic Sensor API", W3C CG "Web Speech API Specification", and WHATWG "Notifications API"
Jun 9, 2015: added Khronos "WebGL 1.0" and "WebGL 2.0"
Jun 8, 2015: added W3C CG "Web Bluetooth" and "Web NFC API"
Jun 7, 2015: added WHATWG "Fetch" and "Fullscreen API"
Jun 6, 2015: added ability to list non-W3C-TR publications
Jun 5, 2015: added "Geofencing API"
Jun 4, 2015: added "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0" and "W3C DOM4"
Jun 2, 2015: changed status of "Contacts Manager API", "Web Telephony API", and "Messaging API" from WD to NOTE
May 19, 2015: changed status of "Web Notifications" from WD to CR; changed status of "HTML5 Web Messaging" from PR to REC
May 4, 2015: added "Credential Management Level 1"
Apr 27, 2015: updated "Push API" abstract
Apr 24, 2015: added "Privileged Contexts" and "Upgrade Insecure Requests"
Apr 22, 2015: updated "Resource Hints", "Network Error Logging", and "Navigation Timing 2" abstracts
Apr 7, 2015: added "The Permissions API"; changed status of "HTML5 Web Messaging" from CR to PR
Mar 6, 2015: renamed "Navigation Error Logging (navigation-error-logging)" to "Network Error Logging (network-error-logging)"
Feb 26, 2015: changed status of "HTML Image Description Extension (longdesc)" from PR to REC
Feb 25, 2015: changed status of "Pointer Events" from PR to REC
Feb 19, 2015: added "HTML5" and "Media Capture from DOM Elements"; changed status of "Content Security Policy 1.0" from CR to NOTE; changed status of "Content Security Policy Level 2" from WD to CR
Feb 17, 2015: added "Presentation API" and "Server Timing"
Feb 12, 2015: added "Wake Lock API"
Feb 10, 2015: added "Screen Capture"; changed status of "Vibration API" from PR to REC; added "Audio Output Devices API"
Feb 3, 2015: changed status of "Server-Sent Events" from PR to REC
Jan 20, 2015: added "Frame Timing"
Jan 8, 2015: changed status of "Indexed Database API" from PR to REC
Dec 16, 2014: changed status of "Resource Timing" from CR to WD; changed status of "Pointer Events" from WD to PR
Dec 11, 2014: changed status of "Web Cryptography API" from WD to CR
Dec 10, 2014: renamed "URL (url)" to "URL (url-1)"
Dec 9, 2014: changed status of "Vibration API" and "Server-Sent Events" from CR to PR; changed status of "Battery Status API" from WD to CR
Dec 5, 2014: changed status of "HTML Image Description Extension (longdesc)" from CR to PR
Dec 3, 2014: renamed "Raw Sockets (raw-sockets)" to "TCP and UDP Socket API (tcp-udp-sockets)"
Dec 2, 2014: renamed "Web Alarms API Specification (web-alarms)" to "Task Scheduler API Specification (task-scheduler)"
Nov 20, 2014: changed status of "Indexed Database API" from CR to PR
Nov 18, 2014: changed status of "Fullscreen" from WD to NOTE
Nov 14, 2014: added "WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format"; changed status of "Pointer Events" from CR to WD
Oct 23, 2014: changed status of "Resource Priorities" from WD to NOTE (mostly superseded by "Resource Hints")
Oct 21, 2014: added "Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API" and "Resource Hints"
Oct 7, 2014: added "Media Capture Depth Stream Extensions"
Sep 9, 2014: changed status of "Vibration API" and "HTML Media Capture" from WD to CR
Aug 28, 2014: changed status of "Battery Status API" from CR to WD
Aug 21, 2014: changed status of "The srcset Attribute" from WD to NOTE (now part of core HTML5); changed status of "HTML Canvas 2D Context" from WD to CR
Aug 12, 2014: changed status of "HTML Image Description Extension" from WD to CR
Aug 7, 2014: added "Content Security Policy 1.0", "Content Security Policy Level 2", and "Referrer Policy"
Jul 22, 2014: changed status of "The picture Element" from WD to NOTE (now part of core HTML5)
Jun 28, 2014: added "IndieUI: User Context 1.0"
Jun 25, 2014: moved "Ambient Light Events" and "HTML Media Capture" from CR to WD
May 29, 2014: added "W3C HTML Form HTTP Extensions"
May 20, 2014: changed status of "HTML Canvas 2D Context" from CR to WD
May 8, 2014: added "Service Workers"
Apr 28, 2014: changed status of "File API: Directories and System" and "File API: Writer" from WD to NOTE
Apr 10, 2014: changed status of "Network Information API" from WD to NOTE
Mar 18, 2014: added "Subresource Integrity"; changed status of "HTML Templates" from WD to NOTE
Feb 11, 2014: added "Navigation Error Logging"; changed status of "Progress Events" from PR to REC; changed status of "Vibration API" from CR to WD
Jan 30, 2014: renamed "XMLHttpRequest (XMLHttpRequest)" to "XMLHttpRequest Level 1 (XMLHttpRequest)"
Jan 29, 2014: added "Encoding"
Jan 14, 2014: added "Web NFC API"; changed status of "Web Intents Addendum — Local Services", "Pick Media Intent", "Pick Contacts Intent", "Calendar API", "System Information API", and "The Messaging API" from WD to NOTE
Jan 9, 2014: changed status of "Media Source Extensions" from WD to CR
Dec 18, 2013: added "Manifest for Web Apps and Bookmarks"; changed status of "Pointer Lock" from WD to CR
Dec 12, 2013: changed status of "Progress Events" from CR to PR; changed status of "User Timing" and "Performance Timeline" from PR to REC
Dec 5, 2013: changed status of "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing" from CR to PR
Dec 3, 2013: added "High Resolution Time Level 2"
Oct 31, 2013: changed status of "User Timing" and "Performance Timeline" from CR to PR; changed status of "Timing Control for Script-Based Animations" from WD to CR; changed status of "HTML Microdata" from WD to NOTE; added "Touch Events Extensions"
Oct 29, 2013: added "Resource Priorities" and "Beacon"
Oct 24, 2013: changed status of "Geolocation API Specification" from PR to REC
Oct 10, 2013: changed status of "Touch Events" from PR to REC
Oct 1, 2013: moved "Ambient Light Events" and "Proximity Events" from WD to CR
Sep 28, 2013: changed status of "HTML Canvas 2D Context" from WD to CR
Sep 27, 2013: added "Cross-Origin Resource Sharing"
Sep 10, 2013: published source on "github"; working on complete markdown formatting
Jul 30, 2013: changed status of "Web Storage" from PR to REC
Jul 23, 2013: changed status of "Vibration API" from WD to CR
Jul 10, 2013: added "Mediastream Image Capture"
Jul 4, 2013: changed status of "Indexed Database API" from WD to CR
Jun 25, 2013: added "Web Animations 1.0"
Jun 20, 2013: added "Web Telephony API"
May 23, 2013: moved "Web Intents" from active to inactive list (WD to NOTE); changed status of "Vibration API" from CR to WD
May 16, 2013: added "The app: URI scheme" and "Messaging API"
May 14, 2013: added "Shadow DOM", "Custom Elements", "HTML Imports", and "Raw Sockets"; changed status of "Page Visibility" from PR to REC
May 10, 2013: added "Encrypted Media Extensions"
May 9, 2013: changed status of "Touch Events" from WD to PR; changed status of "Pointer Events" and "HTML Media Capture" from WD to CR
Apr 9, 2013: changed status of "Web Storage" from CR to PR
Apr 4, 2013: added "Input Method Editor API"
Mar 27, 2013: added "Runtime and Security Model for Web Applications"
Mar 12, 2013: added "HTML Image Description Extension"
Mar 7, 2013: added "Contacts Manager API"
Feb 28, 2013: added "The srcset Attribute"
Feb 27, 2013: added "The picture Element"
Feb 19, 2013: added "Streams API" and "HTML Templates"
Feb 5, 2013: added "Web Alarms API Specification" and "MediaStream Recording"
Jan 31, 2013: added "Navigation Timing 2"
Jan 29, 2013: added "Media Source Extensions"
Jan 25, 2013: changed status of "Touch Events" from CR to WD
Jan 24, 2013: added "IndieUI: Events 1.0"
Jan 9, 2013: added "WebCrypto Key Discovery"
Dec 17, 2012: changed status of "High Resolution Time" and "Navigation Timing" from PR to REC
Dec 11, 2012: added "Pointer Events"; changed status of "Server-Sent Events" from WD to CR
Oct 25, 2012: added "Web MIDI API"
Oct 23, 2012: changed status of "High Resolution Time" from CR to PR
Oct 18, 2012: added "Push API"
Oct 4, 2012: added "Web Intents Addendum — Local Services"; updated title and abstract of "Network Service Discovery"
Sep 20, 2012: added "DOM Parsing and Serialization"; updated status of "WebSocket API" to CR; added experimental classification of specs
Sep 14, 2012: added "Web Cryptography API"
Sep 13, 2012: published "blog entry about HTML5 Classification", looking for ideas to improve this list
Aug 22, 2012: updated abstract of "WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers"
Aug 7, 2012: added "Networked Service Discovery and Messaging"
Aug 2, 2012: added "Ambient Light Events"
Jul 26, 2012: updated status of "Page Visibility", "User Timing", and "Performance Timeline" to CR, and "Navigation Timing" to PR
Jul 25, 2012: switched from HTML to XML source, now generating this page by XSLT
Jul 12, 2012: added "Proximity Events" and "Pick Media Intent"
Jul 10, 2012: added "WebDriver"
Jul 3, 2012: added "Quota Management API" and "Fullscreen"
Jun 26, 2012: added "Web Intents"
May 31, 2012: added "MediaStream Processing API" (in inactive list, missed it before)
May 29, 2012: added "Pointer Lock" and "Gamepad"
May 24, 2012: added "URL"
May 23, 2012: added "Screen Orientation API"
Mar 27, 2012: moved "Media Capture API" from active to inactive list
Mar 13, 2012: added "High Resolution Time"
Dec 15, 2011: added "Web Audio API" and "Audio Processing API"
Nov 19, 2011: added "Vibration API"
Oct 27, 2011: added "WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers"
Aug 14, 2011: added "User Timing" and "Performance Timeline"
Jul 1, 2011: added "DeviceOrientation Event Specification"
Jun 7, 2011: added "Network Information API"
Jun 2, 2011: added "Page Visibility", "Timing Control for Script-Based Animations", "Navigation Timing", and "Resource Timing"
May 5, 2011: added "Touch Events"
Apr 26, 2011: added "Battery Status Event Specification"
Apr 19, 2011: added "Calendar API"
Apr 14, 2011: added "Clipboard API and Events"
Apr 5, 2011: marked "Programmable HTTP Caching and Serving" as deprecated
Mar 1, 2011: added "Web Notifications"
Nov 19, 2010: added "HTML5 Web Messaging", marked "Web SQL Database" as deprecated
Oct 26, 2010: added "File API: Directories and System"
Sep 28, 2010: added "HTML Media Capture" and changed title and permalink of "Media Capture API" (previously "Capture API")
Aug 19, 2010: updated abstract for "Indexed Database API"
Aug 10, 2010: added "Messaging API"
Apr 6, 2010: added "File API: Writer"
Apr 1, 2010: added "Capture API"
Mar 4, 2010: added "HTML Canvas 2D Context" and "HTML Microdata"
Jan 21, 2010: "initial version"