[stupidcar]

I'm guessing it's yet another hostile fork: https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11

As far as I understand, they (the W3C) do this every few months in an attempt to wrest defacto control of HTML back from WHATWG. They copy the WHATWG spec, strip out the licensing and authorship information, and publish as "their" HTML spec.

Then a few months passes, their copy falls behind the actively edited WHATWG one, so they have to fork it again. And so on, and so on.

It's really pretty pathetic.

[currysausage]

This message by Hixie is very insightful if you like to delve into the details of WHATWG/W3C politics: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2014Apr/0034...

[danieloaks]

That's a really interesting look at the politics between those two. Applies to some stuff I'm involved in too. Useful link, thanks very much for sharing!

[veidr]

Thanks; that long message was fascinating to a programmer who doesn't really follow this stuff.