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Re:Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive? by rayiner on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:36AM (#20188409)
ISO at least still releases real standards with multiple implementations. Web standards by contrast have basically become a pretense, as the actual standard is defined by Google’s implementation.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are ISO standards so expensive? by pcwalton on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:32AM (#20209807)
I mean, to some degree that's true, but that's not anything the W3C can do anything about. It's just the nature of the browser market at this time.

As an example, C++, also an ISO standard, has notoriously few full implementations, and as a result C++ is largely defined by "what GCC/Clang accept" in practice.

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