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> Funny to see Google and Mozilla siding on ethical issues

It's not the first time Google and Mozilla sided together against the W3C on web standards, and the last notable time resulted, over time, in the W3C ultimately being displaced from any role in the HTML and DOM standards.

The standards group that implementers listen to (which, for some reason, seems to be the one that listens to implementers, when there are competing options) is the only one that matters, in practice.




> It's not the first time Google and Mozilla sided together against the W3C on web standards, and the last notable time resulted, over time, in the W3C ultimately being displaced from any role in the HTML and DOM standards.

By who?


WHATWG, though I recall that Apple and Opera were equally influential in the move.





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