World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) comes under fire from developers, designers

[mandy]

Trouble at the W3C as developer and designers complain of increasing influence by large corporate members.  Letter from a departing W3C member:

Hi,

  I believe for our society to progress it's essential that our culture,
our knowledge, and our society itself are as accessible as possible to
everyone; web standards are how we choose to achieve this on the World
Wide Web, and for us to communicate, especially if we have special needs
or novel ideas about information access, it depends on compliance to web
standards. With this in mind I became interested in assuring standards
compliance on the Web and involved in the development of tools meant to
help in this respect at the World Wide Web Consortium seven years ago.

I now have to discontinue my participation in this area at the W3C and
would like to explain how the World Wide Web Consortium failed to pro-
vide what I think would have been and still is necessary to advance the
tools and services to an acceptable level, which will explain why I am
leaving now...

full letter: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/publ...06Jul/0011

[regic]

:mgoodnews:
If they self destruct we won't have to worry about making our pages W3C compliant.