alt Hacker NewsThat does happen, but these days they tend to add that kind of thing to the spec (and the test suite). There was a minor drama several years when WHATWG (representing browser vendors) effectively took over the spec process from the W3C because they were fed up with the W3C taking an idealistic viewpoint, and speccing things that they couldn't actually implement.
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andybak • yesterday at 11:12 PM
To be fair - my recollection was "representing browser vendors and pragmatists". It was far from rhe industry stitch-up that that might sound like to modern ears.
That’s good to know. The W3C probably did more to hamper web standards than anyone else (except maybe Microsoft). So I’m not surprised WHATWG took over.