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> 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 browse…

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 c…

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 The problem is that it's an incomplete, intrinsically out of date, and often buggy subset of the t…

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,…

> 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…