Mark Nottingham
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Web pages are guests on our computers.
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The WHATWG was founded by individuals of Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software in 2004, after a W3C workshop. [They] were becoming increasingly concerned about the W3C’s direction with XHTML, lack of interest in HTML and apparent disregard for the needs of real-world authors.
Web Components
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Standards are social; face-to-face time is important.
Timescales in standards are long; in fact, they are never done.
The Web is huge; don't break existing content. Progressive Enhancement through extensibility is a primary tool.
Running code wins - there are no standards police.