>What some developers fear is that down the road the two >specs will diverge in significant ways and HTML will become >a messy set of forked standards and varyi

>What some developers fear is that down the road the two >specs will diverge in significant ways and HTML will become >a messy set of forked standards and varying browser support >that lands us back in the bad old days of IE 6 This is what I'm worried about myself, but I'd like to think that anyone involved with either parties would work together to ensure that it didn't.