Post #2494396

2023-12-07 09:03 UTC

@mima@makai.chaotic.ninja @fluepke@chaos.social @eloquence@social.coop Can you elaborate on WHATWG? I did participate in both W3C and WHATWG groups and the latter was definitely open and friendly towards individuals and their contributions.

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@fluepke@chaos.social 2023-12-07 09:04

@f09fa681@digitalcourage.social @mima@makai.chaotic.ninja @eloquence@social.coop Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

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@mima@makai.chaotic.ninja 2023-12-08 05:22

@f09fa681@digitalcourage.social Issue #552 of whatwg/html pretty much explains for itself what it means for contributions which don't get "enough implementer interest" in the #WHATWG despite having a significant #webdev grassroots support. This obsession in making sure at least two "implementers" have the feature baked into their codebases is frankly bull and is one of the factors of why we have such a #Google-biased #web. Theoretically it's there so that every feature would be certain that there are players backing and seeing that feature being useful and good for the #openweb, but in reality it has become Google's veto in most cases, with the popular

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