Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Web Standards
summary
W3C coordinates standards but member-company working groups actually write them: CSS WG lists ~83 member-company participants, five invited experts and six staff (about 6.44% staff), and some groups have as little as 3.5–4.5% staff. Specs move from editor's draft vs working draft through last call to candidate recommendation, which requires tests and two interoperable implementations before proposed recommendation and then Recommendation. Collaboration happens on public mailing lists, IRC, bug trackers, telcons and quarterly face‑to‑face meetings; W3C also runs validators and documentation projects.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:12All web standards made in W3C
- 2:20What does W3C do
- 3:58Working Groups
- 9:48Maturity Levels
- 14:42How to Keep Up
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