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The problem is that it is not a fast freeze. It goes through the full W3C process[1] WD > CR > PR > recommendation. When I looked at W3C html 5.2 there had been
by kbrosnan 9y ago
The problem is that it is not a fast freeze. It goes through the full W3C process[1] WD > CR > PR > recommendation. When I looked at W3C html 5.2 there had been 10k changes to the WHATWG spec from the date of the 5.2 branch to the date of the 5.2 release.
The W3C allows changes that are incompatible with the WHATWG spec see DBaron's comments in the GitHub issues.
[1] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/process.html#Reports https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/proce...