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Rather, the WHATWG writes standards that comply with what browser makers do.
by haikuginger 10y ago
Rather, the WHATWG writes standards that comply with what browser makers do.
- Manishearth 10y agoIt goes both ways. Unspecced behavior might get specced by the whatwg. Of it turns out that whatwg's spec doesn't match most browsers, that is a spec bug. If it matches some browsers but not others it usually gets discussed and consensus is reached. Sometimes the spec does one thing, some browsers do a different thing, and some browsers do yet another thing. More discussion. But new features like the fetch standard get written before implementations (with vendors and other stakeholders involved in the process), or simultaneously with implementations.