1.1 How It All Started 3Figure 1.1 WHATWG homepage at http://www.whatwg.org
Anyone looking for help with learning or using HTML5 will find answers under
FAQ, Help, and Forums. The Wiki, hidden behind the Volunteer button, is not
quite as helpful yet, because it is geared more toward development issues and
contains little documentation on the HTML5 language. The blog, accessible via
the News button, seemed a little neglected in 2010 too, which was perhaps due
to the fact that the main author, Mark Pilgrim of Google, was at that time busy
writing his own online book, which is freely available at http://diveintohtml5.org
in case you want to take a look. Fortunately, Anne van Kesteren resurrected the
blog in 2011 with reports on developments of the standard—a valuable source for
keeping track of recent changes.
One of the most active areas is the Chat at irc://irc.freenode.org/whatwg, linked
via the IRC button. Here, the WHATWG community meets up with browser
developers and works with them to implement the specification. This is also
the place to have heated debates on matters concerning HTML5, make politi-
cal statements, or tell critics exactly what you think. An imaginary character,
Mr. LastWeek, comments on the events with sometimes hefty blog entries at
http://lastweekinhtml5.blogspot.com in reaction to the publicly accessible IRC
protocols at http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs, which anyone can not only read,
but also actively comment on. Just click on the yellow box at the end of a line you
deem relevant, exciting, or important to color the line yellow. To scan the most
recent topics, marking entries works quite well.