You can fork standard till the cows come home, the only thing that matters is what the browser vendors do. I am not sure about the relevance/importance of the w

You can fork standard till the cows come home, the only thing that matters is what the browser vendors do. I am not sure about the relevance/importance of the w3c either, given the history of HTML5 which was born as Web Application 1.0 outside of w3c and partly out of the frustration caused by that organisation.