The WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple Inc, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software, leading Web browser vendors, in 2004.
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WHATWG was formed in response to the slow development of World Wide Web Consortium Web standards and W3C's decision to abandon HTML in favor of XML-based technologies.
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The WHATWG mailing list was announced on 4 June 2004, two days after the initiatives of a joint Opera–Mozilla position paper had been voted down by the W3C members at the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents.
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Since then, the W3C and the WHATWG had been developing HTML independently, at times causing specifications to diverge.
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In 2017, the WHATWG established an intellectual property rights agreement that includes a patent policy.
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In 2019, the W3C and WHATWG agreed to a memorandum of understanding where development of HTML and DOM specifications would be done principally in the WHATWG.
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On 28 May 2019, the W3C announced that WHATWG would be the sole publisher of the HTML and DOM standards.
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The W3C and WHATWG had been publishing competing standards since 2012.
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The WHATWG "Living Standard" had been the de facto web standard for some time.
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WHATWG publishes a number of standards that form a substantial portion of the web platform including:.
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