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If W3C doesn't make progress in the way that the browser makers want, they'll just go around them. This isn't a possibility - it's happened before with WHATWG.
by richardwhiuk 10y ago
If W3C doesn't make progress in the way that the browser makers want, they'll just go around them. This isn't a possibility - it's happened before with WHATWG. The W3C exists to serve the browser and content makers who want this.
- gsnedders 10y agoAnd the W3C is ultimately beholden to its membership, and in a number of countries (including some the W3C operates in!) the difference between an industrial consortium and a cartel is the former allows anyone willing to abide by the consortium's process and pay its membership fees and the latter does not.
- acdha 10y agoThat's the part I think a lot of people forget: Apple, Google, and Microsoft are also DRM vendors. There is no nefarious third party needed to put DRM into most of the browsers people use, and Mozilla doesn't have anywhere enough market-share to do more than slow that.