W3C/TBL had “owned” HTML and DOM for way too long to just acknowledge that they botched it and that their work on that has no practical relevance any more.
“We are the organization that provides infrastructure for the standardization of stylesheets, and also some awesome-in-theory semantic web standards that are too complicated for actual implementations, and also some XML standards that are actually relevant for DTP” doesn’t seem to be the mission statement of choice for the creator of the web.
W3C/TBL had “owned” HTML and DOM for way too long to just acknowledge that they botched it and that their work on that has no practical relevance any more.
“We are the organization that provides infrastructure for the standardization of stylesheets, and also some awesome-in-theory semantic web standards that are too complicated for actual implementations, and also some XML standards that are actually relevant for DTP” doesn’t seem to be the mission statement of choice for the creator of the web.