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June 28th, 2017 by Domenic Denicola in Tutorials, FAQ

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Back in 2011, Ben Schwarz took on the ambitious Code of Conduct

project of curating an edition of the HTML Standard Privacy Policy

specifically for web developers. It omitted details aimed Submit an Article
specifically at browser vendors, and had several
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additional features to make the experience more
pleasant to read.

Ben did an amazing job maintaining this for many years, Archives
but some time ago it fell behind the changes to the May 2021
HTML Standard. Since the move to make HTML more
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community-driven, we've been hoping to find a way to
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synchronize the developer's edition with the
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mainstream specification. That day has finally arrived!
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We've deployed an initial version of the new developer's
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edition at a new URL,
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https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/. It's rough around the
edges, missing several of the features of the old July 2017

version. And it needs some curation to omit June 2017

implementer-specific sections; many have crept in April 2017

during the downtime. We're tracking these and other
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issues in the issue tracker. But now, the developer's
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edition is integrated into our build process and editing
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workflow, and will forever remain synchronized with the
HTML Standard itself. August 2016

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Hereby we issue a call to the community to help us with
the revitalized developer's edition. Two of the biggest April 2016
areas of potential improvement are helping us properly February 2016
mark up the source according to the guidelines for what
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goes in the developer's edition, and contributing to the
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design of the developer's edition in order to make it
more beautiful and usable. September 2014

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Finally, I want to thank Michael™ Smith for getting this
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process started, via a series of pull requests to our build
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tools which did most of the foundational work. And of
course Ben Schwarz, without whom none of this would May 2012

have happened in the first place. April 2012

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