mcchampion

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   by mcchampion 7y ago

   > If they choose "not to ratify" something... will it have any effect on browser behavior at all? W3C has no authority to change browser behavior, no. But they CAN influence browser behavior by providing expert assistance to p
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   by mcchampion 7y ago

   W3C did try to balance multiple constituencies for HTML, but it couldn't find consensus among them, and broad consensus is the basis for its authority. WHATWG didn't so much take control of the standards process as recognize that
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   by mcchampion 8y ago

   I don't think the W3C DOM document has anything the developers haven't agreed to. The problem is that it's an incomplete, intrinsically out of date, and often buggy subset of the the WHATWG living standard. I agree that the
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   by mcchampion 8y ago

   How would one convince the others to re-invest in W3C HTML and DOM? Microsoft's rationale a few years ago was that WHATWG wasn't a real standards organization with a patent policy, dispute resolution system, etc., and that create
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   by mcchampion 8y ago

   > If browser makers would actually participate as editors Microsoft tried that, investing in easier to use GitHub tooling to allow a wide range of people to submit pull requests to update/fix bugs in the W3C HTML standard. "If