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WHATWG is now led by a Steering Group of the four major browser engine vendors, and for some time has had a rule that every new feature in HTML needs a test sui

by om2 9y ago

WHATWG is now led by a Steering Group of the four major browser engine vendors, and for some time has had a rule that every new feature in HTML needs a test suite and implementation commitments from multiple vendors before it can go in. It’s definitely not right to claim it’s controlled by Google.

marcoperaza 9y ago
They can have all the formal procedures that they want, but none of them are legally committed to implementing the WHATWG spec. So it ultimately comes down to power, your share of the browsing market[1]. Everything else is ultimately a facade, that will crumble if it diverges too far from the underlying reality. [1] The power of the different vendors isn't a straightforward function of market-share of course, you have to factor in: shares on the different form factors, shares that are locked in (e.g. WebKit on iOS, Blink on ChromeOS), spending habits of the different user bases, etc.