WHATWG

Workstreams

This document contains an official Steering Group-maintained accounting of the WHATWG workstreams, their responsible editors, and their associated standards.

Note that per the Workstream Policy, the official Editors listed here may have delegated responsibilities and editing duties to deputy editors for any given Living Standard. As such, the Editor position listed here is more about "who is the official liaison with the Steering Group" and less about "who is editing the document". To get an accounting of who is primarily responsible for day-to-day specification work, you'll be better served by checking the Acknowledgments section of the Living Standard in question.

Compatibility

Scope: CSS properties and DOM APIs that web browsers need to support for compatibility with the de facto web.
Editor: Mike Taylor, miketaylr@google.com
Standard: Compatibility

Console

Scope: APIs for console debugging facilities.
Editors: Dominic Farolino, domfarolino@gmail.com; Robert Kowalski, rok@kowalski.gd; Terin Stock, terin@terinstock.com
Standard: Console

DOM

Scope: The web's model for events, aborting activities, and node trees.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standard: DOM

Encoding

Scope: Character encodings on the web, and their JavaScript API.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standard: Encoding

Fetch

Scope: The networking model for resource retrieval on the web.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standard: Fetch

Fullscreen API

Scope: An API for web pages to take over a user's entire screen.
Editor: Philip Jägenstedt, philip@foolip.org
Standard: Fullscreen API

HTML

Scope: A kitchen sink full of technologies for the web, including the core markup language for the web, HTML, as well as numerous APIs like Web Sockets, Web Workers, localStorage, etc.
Editor: Domenic Denicola, d@domenic.me
Standards: HTML; WebSockets

Infra

Scope: The fundamental concepts upon which standards are built.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standard: Infra

MIME Sniffing

Scope: Algorithms used to determine the type of resources.
Editor: Gordon P. Hemsley, me@gphemsley.org
Standard: MIME Sniffing

Notifications API

Scope: An API to display notifications to alert users outside the context of a web page.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standard: Notifications API

Quirks Mode

Scope: Quirks in CSS and Selectors that are necessary to support for web browsers for compatibility with the web.
Editor: Simon Pieters, zcorpan@gmail.com
Standard: Quirks Mode

Storage

Scope: APIs for persistent storage and quota estimates, as well as the web platform storage architecture.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standards: File System; Storage

Streams

Scope: Web APIs for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data that map efficiently to low-level I/O primitives.
Editor: Domenic Denicola, d@domenic.me
Standard: Streams

Test Utils

Scope: Internal APIs for automating testing of web platform features implemented in web browsers, e.g., to trigger JavaScript garbage collection.
Editor: James Graham, james@hoppipolla.co.uk
Standard: Test Utils

URL

Scope: URLs, their infrastructure, and their API.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standards: URL; URL Pattern

Web IDL

Scope: A syntax for specifications to use to define web APIs and the translation of that syntax into web browser programming languages such as JavaScript.
Editors: Edgar Chen, echen@mozilla.com; Timothy Gu, timothygu99@gmail.com
Standard: Web IDL

XMLHttpRequest

Scope: A client-side networking API for transferring data between a web page and a server.
Editor: Anne van Kesteren, annevk@annevk.nl
Standard: XMLHttpRequest