undefined | Better HN

0 pointsrpastuszak4y ago0 comments

Since the web standards are owned by WHATWG, any idea what the purpose of W3C is nowadays?

0 comments

5 comments · 4 top-level

doublerabbit4y ago· 1 in thread

Somehow I've not herd of WHATWG and according to the wiki article the active memberships are: Apple, Google, Microsoft and supposedly Mozilla?

The three largest tech companies own the internet standards? That's quite unsettling.

mminer2374y ago

Regardless of who participates in drafting standards, those five control the de facto standards anyway as they make the five largest browsers.

Macha4y ago

CSS, XML, SVG are still W3C standards

pdw4y ago

XML and everything that's build on it

ryukafalz4y ago

I know they do standards work on top of web protocols these days. Those digital vaccination records were based on W3C’s Verifiable Credentials standard. (The US ones anyway; I’m not sure about those used elsewhere in the world.)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse