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Make your first contribution to this repository by tackling one of the issues listed below.
Each issue displayed here is a "good first issue," selected for its relative approachability for first-time contributors.
Good first issues
HTML syntax: omitting <body> should not be allowed if first child is <noscript>
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
document conformance
#7737
opened Mar 22, 2022 by
zcorpan
4
Missing list of abbreviations
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#6205
opened Dec 9, 2020 by
jmacura
19
"determine the value of a named property" should not imply a new object each time
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: forms
needs tests
Moving the issue forward requires someone to write tests
#5266
opened Feb 10, 2020 by
bzbarsky
7
Investigation requested for beforeprint/afterprint
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
needs tests
Moving the issue forward requires someone to write tests
#5096
opened Nov 18, 2019 by
annevk
1
Immediate token handling and "next token" are incompatible
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: parser
#4910
opened Sep 14, 2019 by
jordanbtucker
10
width and height attributes on <table> should perhaps allow 0 as a value
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: rendering
#4715
opened Jun 19, 2019 by
bzbarsky
8
Make "as a download" and "obtaining a file name" more explicit
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#4518
opened Apr 9, 2019 by
xyaoinum
getContext() table cleanup
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: canvas
#4511
opened Apr 8, 2019 by
annevk
3
Update all "queue a task" invocations to explicitly specify their task source
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: event loop
#4506
opened Apr 5, 2019 by
domenic
3
The "rules for updating the text track rendering" are not run when mode changes from hidden to showing
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: media
#4486
opened Mar 29, 2019 by
domenic
4
No way to sanely determine a form control's disabled state
addition/proposal
New features or enhancements
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: forms
#4395
opened Feb 26, 2019 by
bzbarsky
10
Editorial: cleanup postMessage() invocation for dedicated workers
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#4140
opened Oct 29, 2018 by
annevk
Unclear if error event from "update the image data" matches implementations
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: img
#3839
opened Jul 22, 2018 by
jdm
3
Escaped characters in source
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#3683
opened May 14, 2018 by
edent
2
Describe HTMLOptionsCollection's length tree mutation in terms of DOM
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: forms
#3652
opened Apr 27, 2018 by
annevk
createImageBitmap's note is wrong
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: canvas
#3552
opened Mar 10, 2018 by
shhnjk
3
<link>.as says default is the empty string, but we don't normally call out default values
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: link
#3489
opened Feb 21, 2018 by
annevk
4
@whatwg, can you produce a html cheetsheet?
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#3296
opened Dec 16, 2017 by
anlexN
14
Small clarity improvements to canvas transform methods
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: canvas
#2848
opened Jul 19, 2017 by
domenic
3
DOM "insertion steps"
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#2771
opened Jun 17, 2017 by
cvrebert
13
UAs may have somewhat more liberal handling of the dir attribute than the spec does
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: rendering
i18n-tracker
Group bringing to attention of Internationalization, or tracked by i18n but not needing response.
needs tests
Moving the issue forward requires someone to write tests
i18n-alreq
Notifies Arabic script experts of relevant issues
i18n-hlreq
Notifies Hebrew script experts of relevant issues
#2769
opened Jun 16, 2017 by
bzbarsky
17
Make spec state that <meta name> must not be use for any new features with UA processing requirements, and instead new attribute should be minted: <meta newfeature=value>
addition/proposal
New features or enhancements
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#2335
opened Feb 8, 2017 by
sideshowbarker
About the term "top-level-browsing-context"
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#2322
opened Feb 5, 2017 by
NE-SmallTown
5
More infinite/NaN handling for <canvas> API members
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
topic: canvas
needs tests
Moving the issue forward requires someone to write tests
#1844
opened Sep 30, 2016 by
annevk
2
Should setting HTMLTableElement.caption throw?
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#1582
opened Jul 21, 2016 by
jessi3py-zz
6
onerror and onunhandledrejection/onrejectionhandled could use some nice developer-friendly examples
clarification
Standard could be clearer
good first issue
Ideal for someone new to a WHATWG standard or software project
#676
opened Feb 10, 2016 by
domenic
1