Top "W3c" questions

How to revoke given permission in Chrome and Firefox?

One of the new APIs made available to developers is Geolocation API. As it's been defined in Specification, any browser …

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Closest ancestor matching selector using native DOM?

Is anybody working on a jQuery.closest() equivalent in the DOM api? Looks like the Selectors Level 2 draft adds matches() …

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HTML5: W3C vs WHATWG. Which gives the most authoritative spec?

I'm in halfway trough an html parser and found html5 defined explicitly the rules of thumb for parsing ill formed …

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If <a name="..."> is obsolete, what is preferred?

The HTML code <a name="some_bookmark">text</a> is very useful for creating links to …

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Is there a valid way to wrap a dt and a dd with an HTML element?

I wish HTML could do something semantically equivalent to this; <dl class="main-list"> <definitionitem> <dt&…

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Is it ok to use cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" in <table>?

Is it ok to use cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" in <table>? Or are these not recommended by W3C and …

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Is 5MB the de facto limit for W3C Web Storage?

I am looking into using browser sessionStorage for a web application, and was trying to find current information on size …

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When we should use <dl> over <ul>?

In what scenarios we should go for <dl> not <ul>? Does it matter for screen reader …

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Why does setting XMLHttpRequest responseType before calling open throw?

Running new XMLHttpRequest().responseType = "json" in the console throws an "InvalidStateError" exception in Firefox 26 and IE11 but not in Chrome 31. …

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Is it safe to omit </TD> and </TR> tags?

According to w3c </TD> and </TR> tags are optional, so the following table is perfectly …

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