Message from JavaScript discussions
October 2018
— So they are all basically hipsters
When I was asked this question I mean, at first I thought "okay '5' might coerce to number 5, and it could be 5 milliseconds from unix epoch" which is definitely not in April 2001
— They could have easily created WHATWG as an addendum to add all their new features / pointless BS, but wanted control over it all
— Oh please no
— Don't want "Works best on IE6" bs all over again
— That was only ever a problem because a certain WHATWG member (MS) thought they were too cool for the W3C spec in the first place
— They took control away from the standards org so they could turn the development of the standard into a profit driven enterprise
— Which is exactly the same thing Google is doing with Chrome these days
— Exactly
— And then, surprise surprise, undocumented chrome feature suddenly appears in WHATWG spec with not a word spoken about it
— HMMMMMM
— That happens often