mattur

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   by mattur 8y ago

   For anyone confused about how the WHATWG came to write a new HTML spec entirely from scratch, after the W3C blocked the work happening at the W3C, this is a good place to start: http://diveintohtml5.info/past.html#webapps-cd
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   by mattur 8y ago

   The machinations behind this have being going on for years, and go much deeper. Two chairs of the W3C's Web Platform Working Group, who both also happen to be members of the W3C Advisory Board which oversees the W3C Process, appear to
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   by mattur 8y ago

   The W3C's HTML standard is a buggy, outdated copy of the upstream WHATWG standard. In the copy-and-paste process the W3C regularly introduces errors which prevent the W3C copy from being used as an implementation reference, even as an