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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WHATWGWHATWG - Wikipedia

    The WHATWG was formed in response to the slow development of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web standards and W3C's decision to abandon HTML in favor of XML-based technologies. The WHATWG mailing list was announced on 4 June 2004, [8] two days after the initiatives of a joint Opera–Mozilla position paper [9] had been voted down by the W3C ...

    • 4 June 2004; 19 years ago
  3. Sep 14, 2021 · What is WHATWG ? Last Updated : 14 Sep, 2021. WHATWG is a Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. It is a community of computer experts and general users with an interest in improving HTML through various standards and tests. The WHATWG was founded in 2004 by individuals from the Mozilla base Foundation, Opera Software and Apple inc ...

  4. Jun 19, 2019 · WHATWG! They formed in 2004 after a W3C workshop announced that the W3C was going to be focusing on XHTML over HTML. There seems to be a little bit of bad blood between WHATWG and W3C. From their FAQ:

  5. Jan 28, 2019 · The formation of the W3C. In 1994, Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with support from CERN, DARPA (as ARPA had been renamed to) and the European Commission. The W3C’s vision was to standardize the protocols and technologies used to build the web such that the content ...

  6. wiki.whatwg.org › wiki › W3CW3C - WHATWG Wiki

    Jun 25, 2019 · Both XML and 'classic HTML' syntaxes will be produced. In May 2007, the WHATWG specification is renamed to HTML5, and the W3C also publishes HTML5 that is identical from the table of contents onward. Ian Hickson was editor of both specifications. In January 2008, a First Public Working Draft of HTML5 is published.

  7. Jan 1, 2011 · Unhappy with the direction the HTMLWG had chosen for the future of HTML, Mozilla and Opera formed the WHATWG to pursue the future of HTML (sans XML). Over time other browser makers like Apple ...

  8. May 3, 2024 · HTML is the World Wide Web's core markup language. Originally, HTML was primarily designed as a language for semantically describing scientific documents. Its general design, however, has enabled it to be adapted, over the subsequent years, to describe a number of other types of documents and even applications.

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