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> If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is already* useless.* Isn't this more or less Goog
by xg15 3y ago
> If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is already* useless.*
Isn't this more or less Google's official stance since the founding of the WHATWG?
I feel, if the W3C had any actual power in anything web/browser related, we'd all be writing XHTML3 today.
To my knowledge, Chrome doesn't even officially implement any W3C standard - they implement the WHATWG's "HTML Living Standard" which is not influenced by the W3C at all.
(At least this was the case a decade ago. Not sure how things have developed since then, since apparently there is now is also the WICG, that develops new proposals.)
- sshine 3y ago> if the W3C had any actual power in anything web/browser related National language advisory councils around the world come in mixtures of two flavors: - Authoritarian: Govern the correct use of language in the country. - Documentarian: Maintain the record of how language evolves dynamically. W3C never had any authoritative power. But they do have some power by documenting and recommending what most agree on. Chrome introducing DRM into websites makes it hard for W3C to be anything.