Re:Why are Internet standards called “Request for Comments”?
by plorkyeran on Sunday December 01, 2013 @08:08PM
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HTML5 is the product of WHATWG, which was specifically created to work around the fact that the W3C was trying its hardest to be utterly irrelevant.
> The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors.
> The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. Apple, Mozilla and Opera were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors.