HTML API

WordPress 6.7 is the first release in which the HTML API will support the full HTML specification (with some very narrow exceptions). In addition, it will be possible to normalize an input document, and to modify most of the text contained in it.

We’ll celebrate this important milestone by taking a closer look at those newly available features, and by exploring the potential that they will unlock for WordPress Core developers as well as extenders.

I highly recommend participants bring some basic understanding of the HTML API, e.g. by watching this excellent presentation by Dennis Snell from WCEU 2024.

Speaker

By bernhard-reiter

My current focus is the Developer Experience of WordPress. I'm the principal author of the Block Hooks feature (first released as part of WP 6.4). I also help out with reviewing and landing patches related to the HTML API, and have participated in the early development stages of the Interactivity API's server-side directive processing.

I was one of the Editor Tech leads for WordPress 6.1 and have been a Core Committer since 2022. I'm also a frequent contributor to the Gutenberg plugin, which often serves as a testing ground for new features before their inclusion in Core.