They are making themselves increasingly irrelevant because they exist primarily to restrict and limit rather than to expand and innovate.
Partly that's the nature of the beast, standards are after all rules.
The problem is that the rules need a clear and timely mechanism to evolve. Clearly the W3C is the wrong answer to that problem.
I remember well what things were like in the days of horrible tag soup trying to support internet explorer and netscape, and that sucked too.
Standards are good, having a single rule set for everyone to test against is good.
The W3C though, yeah they suck hard.
Way past time to move to a usage-based standards adoption mechanism. Let people innovate, if that change sees wide support adopt it as a standard.
They are making themselves increasingly irrelevant because they exist primarily to restrict and limit rather than to expand and innovate.
Partly that's the nature of the beast, standards are after all rules.
The problem is that the rules need a clear and timely mechanism to evolve. Clearly the W3C is the wrong answer to that problem.
I remember well what things were like in the days of horrible tag soup trying to support internet explorer and netscape, and that sucked too.
Standards are good, having a single rule set for everyone to test against is good.
The W3C though, yeah they suck hard.
Way past time to move to a usage-based standards adoption mechanism. Let people innovate, if that change sees wide support adopt it as a standard.