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Trouble Brewing at the W3C?

Posted by timothy on from the so-many-to-choose-from dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A breakaway faction of the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) called WHAT-WG, or the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group--which includes Apple, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera--is threatening to revolt over electronic forms standards. WHAT-WG has announced its intention to submit the draft to the W3C, posing the potentially awkward possibility of the consortium advocating two conflicting avenues for Web forms. The fate of a standard could also determine whether the order form could be accessed in any standards-compliant Web browser, or if it would be available only to users of a particular operating system--an outcome that has browser makers and others worried about the role of Microsoft."

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist p0st d70814866e5859909070db4006a8cd9105ebd479

  2. Ahh man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like the W3C!

  3. Re:You know the saying - by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, Mozilla sure has some weird links regarding XUL.
    http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there. is.only.xul

  4. It's ABOUT FSCHK'N TIME by scenestar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    W3C standards are outdated, Html is too damn focussed on tabular data.

    The internet isn't just for research anymore, its become party of commonday life.

    People just care about pretty looks, not about proper presentation of the latest figures on german fish breeds.

    Some may consider it dumbing down the web, but apealing visuals are importent to attract joe sixpack to your site.

    remember, Lynx has been replaced by firefox

    --
    perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
  5. Re:BROWSER WARS IV - A New Hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent even funnier than its last sibling!