Comment on The Web as the ultimate tool of resilience for the worldparentComments−rpastuszak4ySince the web standards are owned by WHATWG, any idea what the purpose of W3C is nowadays?−Macha4yCSS, XML, SVG are still W3C standards−doublerabbit4ySomehow 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.−mminer2374yRegardless of who participates in drafting standards, those five control the de facto standards anyway as they make the five largest browsers.−pdw4yXML and everything that's build on it−ryukafalz4yI 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.)
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Since the web standards are owned by WHATWG, any idea what the purpose of W3C is nowadays?
CSS, XML, SVG are still W3C standards
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.
Regardless of who participates in drafting standards, those five control the de facto standards anyway as they make the five largest browsers.
XML and everything that's build on it
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.)