W3C and the WHATWG Sign an Agreement to Collaborate on a Single Version of HTML and DOM:
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has decided to join forces with the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) so there is now hope we may eventually have a single, comprehensive agreement for what is valid HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and how the DOM (Document Object Model) should be defined.
Today W3C and the WHATWG signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. The Memorandum of Understanding jointly published as the WHATWG/W3C Joint Working Mode gives the specifics of this collaboration. This is the culmination of a careful exploration effective partnership mechanisms since December 2017 after the WHATWG adopted many shared features as their work-mode and an IPR policy.
[...] Motivated by the belief that having two distinct HTML and DOM specifications claiming to be normative is generally harmful for the community, and the mutual desire to bring the work back together, W3C and WHATWG agree to the following terms:
- W3C and WHATWG work together on HTML and DOM, in the WHATWG repositories, to produce a Living Standard and Recommendation/Review Draft-snapshots
- WHATWG maintains the HTML and DOM Living Standards
- W3C facilitates community work directly in the WHATWG repositories (bridging communities, developing use cases, filing issues, writing tests, mediating issue resolution)
- W3C stops independent publishing of a designated list of specifications related to HTML and DOM and instead will work to take WHATWG Review Drafts to W3C Recommendations
So how does this fit in with the obligatory xkcd?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday May 29 2019, @07:48PM (4 children)
The summary can be summarized in two words:
W3C surrendered.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday May 29 2019, @09:25PM (3 children)
Yup, translated from the Black Speech it says W3C will cease and desist all activity and merge their current projects into the WHATWG and their page says: WHATWG (Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft) so four lawful evil aligned corporations now control the web.
(Score: 2) by Chocolate on Wednesday May 29 2019, @10:53PM (1 child)
Is nothing sacred anymore? Can this be fixed?
Bit-choco-coin anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @11:41PM
Creating a separate no-JS web? 🤔
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Friday May 31 2019, @03:53PM
Why wouldn't they surrender? Mozilla surrendered the open web when they picked up EME. What's W3C got left to fight for? The web is chrome. Firefox development is staled excepted for attempts to keep up.