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Since the web standards are owned by WHATWG, any idea what the purpose of W3C is nowadays?
by rpastuszak 5y ago
Since the web standards are owned by WHATWG, any idea what the purpose of W3C is nowadays?
- pdw 5y agoXML and everything that's build on it
- ryukafalz 5y agoI know they do standards work on top of web protocols these days. Those digital vaccination records were based on W3C’s Verifiable Credentials standard. (The US ones anyway; I’m not sure about those used elsewhere in the world.)
- Macha 5y agoCSS, XML, SVG are still W3C standards
- doublerabbit 5y agoSomehow I've not herd of WHATWG and according to the wiki article the active memberships are: Apple, Google, Microsoft and supposedly Mozilla? The three largest tech companies own the internet standards? That's quite unsettling.
- mminer237 5y agoRegardless of who participates in drafting standards, those five control the de facto standards anyway as they make the five largest browsers.
- JeremyBanks 5y ago