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The jQuery Standards Group exists to give web developers a voice in thestandards process.

It has three primary goals:

• Represent the web developer community, including people involved with anyproject at the jQuery Foundation, to any web standards body and working group(W3C, ECMA/TC39, WHATWG, Khronos, etc) with the intention of developing andimproving existing standards to better meet the needs of web developers.
• Represent the web developer community, including people involvedwith any project at the jQuery Foundation, to browser vendors with the intentof helping them identify standards that they should prioritize forimplementing, and proofs of concept that they can build.
• Help the jQuery Foundation projects adopt new standards and browser featuresas appropriate.

This project adheres to thejQuery Foundation Code of Conductand the same is expected for those who want to participate, applied equally tofounders, mentors, members and those seeking help and guidance.

The easiest way to help is to report (or comment on) issues to theissue tracker in this repository.

Issues should:

• Identify problems with existing specs or specs in progress
• Identify problems with existing implementations of standards

Feel free to comment on existing issues rather than opening a totallynew one. We will roll up important comments into the body of the issueperiodically to ensure that the issues are as clear as possible.

Our goal is to collect well-specified and articulate issues with the webecosystem as it exists today and advocate for improvements with thestandards bodies or vendors.

In general, the purpose of this project is to help shed light on whatthe web community can collectively do to make the web a better placemore rapidly.

If a new issue reflects the same concern as an existing issue, we willincorporate any new information into the existing issue and close it asa duplicate.

If it is a genuinely new issue, we might format and edit it for styleconsistency, in order to help the comprehension for any other contributor.

If applicable, we will also file tickets with the appropriate standardsgroup, work group, or browser vendor and link the issue to the remote ticket.

The purpose of the jQuery Standards Group is to create a forum where theweb developer community can come together to discuss shared concerns andvalues.

Browser implementors, as part of their job, communicate with each otherdirectly about potential new standards and features. This makes theirdiscussion on the mailing lists and throughout the process more coherentand reflective of their shared values.

Like implementors, this doesn't mean that we'll always agree on theobvious best course of action, but it does mean that we'll have a placeto find areas of consensus and discuss how we would like to see theprocess move forward.

By creating this forum, we hope that we give voice to the millions ofweb developers deeply invested in the process but without a natural wayto aggregate their concerns.