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> Honestly, do the other 450+ W3C member organizations matter? (https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List)

Given that the W3C charter requires actual implementations in order for a standard to move forward, I'd have to say that no - entities other than those who might produce a significant implementation probably don't matter in this case.



The W3C Process considers all implementations equivalent: if you were to implement DOM 4.1 in Python, that would be as significant as a browser implementing it. That said, each group has to define what they'll consider "sufficient implementation experience" for each spec when they publish a Candidate Recommendation: the DOM 4.1 spec does not do this, and this forms part of Apple, Google and Mozilla's objections to the spec advancing to CR.

The DOM 4 implementation report, http://w3c.github.io/test-results/dom/details.html, is based on the tests in web-platform-tests: however, the web-platform-tests policy is that we test what browsers implement, and hence the DOM tests there are based on the WHATWG spec: there's no evidence provided that anyone has implemented what the W3C spec says in any case where it differs.




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