[rpastuszak]

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

[Macha]

CSS, XML, SVG are still W3C standards

[doublerabbit]

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.

[mminer237]

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

[pdw]

XML and everything that's build on it

[ryukafalz]

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.)