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This looks like W3C capitulating: > WHATWG maintains the HTML and DOM Living Standards Which is understandable, since all of the main implementers of HTML are
by Athas 7y ago
This looks like W3C capitulating:
> WHATWG maintains the HTML and DOM Living Standards
Which is understandable, since all of the main implementers of HTML are active in WHATWG, not so much W3C.
What will be the concrete impact of this agreement?
- domenicd 7y agoThe biggest concrete impact, in my opinion, will be the removal of confusion in the web developer community around where things are specified. Currently W3C forks (https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Fork_tracking https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Fork_tracking) are often linked to as authoritative, or misleading show up in Google search results higher than the document they are forked from. Per the Memorandum of Understanding at https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html#transition https://www.w3.org/2019/04/WHATWG-W3C-MOU.html#transition, after the W3C first marks a WHATWG Review Draft as a W3C Recommendation, all the forks will be marked as "Superceded" with redirects to the WHATWG originals.