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The biggest concrete impact, in my opinion, will be the removal of confusion in the web developer community around where things are specified. Currently W3C for
by domenicd 7y ago
The 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after the W3C first marks a WHATWG Review Draft as a W3C Recommendation, all the forks will be marked as "Superceded" with redirects to the WHATWG originals.