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by nostrademons
4245 days ago
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They have different purposes. In practical terms, the "HTML5 standard" is really defined by whatever the most popular browsers implement - we saw this in vivid detail when IE6 was the most popular browser and Microsoft made a mockery of the standard. The WHATWG standard exists to track the evolving consensus, so that the major browsers don't diverge too much and we don't go back to the web c. 2005. The W3C spec is so that other interested parties, ones who need to have a finalized doc to shoot for, have something to shoot for that everybody has agreed upon. |
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