The point about the size of the W3C spec is hilarious, but I wonder how much of that hundred million plus words is actually necessary to implement the parts of

The point about the size of the W3C spec is hilarious, but I wonder how much of that hundred million plus words is actually necessary to implement the parts of the spec that people use? Surely it would be possible to create a spec that captured the most useful subset of HTML and CSS functionality. In any case if the spec really is that huge the W3C should be written off. Any organization that produces a spec like that is worthless.