This summary glosses over several events that alienated browser vendors and web developers from the W3C and makes the W3C sound like the good guys. One that sp

This summary glosses over several events that alienated browser vendors and web developers from the W3C and makes the W3C sound like the good guys. One that springs to mind is the complete debacle around XHTML 2. The link above ( http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/past.html http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/past.html ) is worth reading to understand things from the WHATWG's perspective.