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In order for a standards body to be successful, it must be possible to attempt standards and fail them before they leave the standards body. Otherwise they woul
by willseth 4y ago
In order for a standards body to be successful, it must be possible to attempt standards and fail them before they leave the standards body. Otherwise they would lose credibility by publishing recommendations that won't get wide acceptance. XHTML2 is an example of a W3C WG exercising restraint. That is a good thing.
You seem to think standards should only be built in reverse, which is essentially the WHATWG philosophy: Browser vendors implement something they think is useful, then try to negotiate to get it standardized. That's not bad per se, but it's limited and it's a different system of accountability.