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A few tech companies have outrageous _corporate_ influence in the W3C who shouldn't. To name a few: Google, Microsoft, Netflix. I predicted serious issues wit
by mindcrash 2y ago
A few tech companies have outrageous _corporate_ influence in the W3C who shouldn't.
To name a few: Google, Microsoft, Netflix.
I predicted serious issues with this ages ago, to the point that I suggested the best thing for humankind would be a fork of the HTML spec on behest of WHATWG. I also remember some long time independent contributors like Anne van Kesteren agreeing to this at the time.
Also:
https://theoutline.com/post/2304/netflix-microsoft-and-google-just-quietly-changed-how-the-web-works https://theoutline.com/post/2304/netflix-microsoft-and-googl... (2017!)