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Tim Berners-Lee is partly to blame, his W3C squandered all of its authority, partly through incompetence and partly through bureaucracy and corruption, and now
by guelo 8y ago
Tim Berners-Lee is partly to blame, his W3C squandered all of its authority, partly through incompetence and partly through bureaucracy and corruption, and now it has little leverage to affect change.
- buzzert 8y agoWhat would they do even if they had authority? What does “authority” even mean in this context?
- _bxg1 8y agoHaving the respect of those who implement the spec. To my understanding, WHATWG has basically usurped all of the W3C's influence and just let it stick around as a figurehead. But it has no real power anymore to incite change.
- einr 8y agoI don't think that altering the technical details regarding the implementation of HTML, CSS et al would do much of anything to stop the proliferation of walled gardens and spyware.
- klez 8y agoYou're right, it wouldn't. But the fact is that once the arguably most important thing the w3c did got out of their hands, they lost importance as a whole. So they now have little political power to push back on other things.
- _bxg1 8y agoHere is a prime example: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/8/15942238/web-drm-standard-eme-approved-controversy https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/8/15942238/web-drm-standard-...