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dparkyesterday at 5:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

The other key browser implementers are also part of WHATWG.

Who do you suppose should be in charge of web standards? I can’t imagine the train wreck of incompetence if standards were driven by bureaucrats instead of stakeholders.


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xg15yesterday at 5:22 PM

How about the users and web authors?

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ocdtrekkieyesterday at 5:13 PM

And those implementers should make decisions, Google should be bound by the FTC to supporting their recommendations.

Honestly, what's really funny here is how absolutely horrified people are by the suggestion a single company which has a monopoly shouldn't also define the web platform. I really think anyone who has any sort of confusion about what I commented here to take a long, hard look at their worldview.

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