Comment by xg15
3 months ago
WHATWG broke this quasi-officially when they declared HTML a "Living Standard". The HTML spec is not a standard to be implemented anymore, it's just a method of coordinating/announcing what the browser vendors are currently working on.
(For the same reason, they dropped the name HTML5 and are only talking about "HTML". Who needs version numbers if there is no future and no past anyway?)
https://whatwg.org/faq#living-standard https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/main/FAQ.md#html-standar...
Your FAQ stresses the importance of backwards compatibility multiple times.
Seems hard to square removing XSLT with that.
Yeah, that was my impression about their process. They replaced formalized compatibility guarantees through versions with "trust me, bro".