Well there are IETF and WHATWG already... Did the W3C ever really work as intended? I guess it's fair to say that HTML5/CSS3 were mostly driven by WHATWG. HTM

Well there are IETF and WHATWG already... Did the W3C ever really work as intended? I guess it's fair to say that HTML5/CSS3 were mostly driven by WHATWG. HTML 2 was specified as IETF RFC 1866. XSLT and XHTML don't seem that relevant today. XML Schema doesn't seem that relevant for the web either and probably should have been like RELAX instead. I am not working on browser features, but I'd imagine that participating in W3C meetings could be soul crushing for actual developers -- compared to talking to colleagues from other browser vendors and cooking up an RFC together. Of course that might not be consistent with the political interests of some of the vendors...