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Web developer, manager, author. HTML optimization (“Upgrade Your HTML”), frontend news (@frontenddogma.com), web dev terminology (@webglossary.info). More: https://mas.to/@j9t, https://meiert.com/.
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Openness is a wider issue. For one, the way both orgs work changed over the years.
Then, both orgs don’t seem inviting to contributors, but it feels worse on the WHATWG end. Comms, issues, PR handling.
The signals that has been sending are bad. Test the sentiment, perhaps with a survey.
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The article is not as strict as it may appear like. The difficulty is exactly in orgs, sites, and audiences being so hard to compare.
Good point to check on “document conformance,” too. Will look into that.
As for W3C/WHATWG, I look at 20+ years and it was more open with both.
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Google 2025:
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Genocide Dilemma:
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Not aware of anything, either. Just had www.ghacks.net/2025/04/15/f... pop up in my queue though and wonder if there is some connection.
Agree with @eisenbergeffect.com that the change seems huge (even though from a conformance perspective, I’d kind of like it 😅).
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I drew the line narrowly in terms of the language carrying “markup language” in its name, and then even removing XML-based dialects.
This was to draw attention to WML, cHTML, and the like, so it’s not a complete overview (and not claiming to be one). Monitoring in case this ends up confusing.
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This is from a time when frameworks were just becoming a thing.
For the longest time I thought this wouldn’t age well. But every time new framework stats come around, I’m not sure it aged poorly.
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A note on this dark mode, at the time there was less use of `color-scheme`. To probe the options, I set up some new test cases, described and linked from the article: meiert.com/en/blog/mini...
Please tell me if I took the wrong turn somewhere, to help inform solutions! 🙏
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Yes, different time!
I recall from back then that the cable would occasionally get in the way, but even then, that was rare and usually not a problem. Nowadays, it’s so much easier.