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If it truly becomes an issue, W3C will simply cease to be relevant and a new group will take its place.

For many of the basic standards including HTML, WHATWG has already taken over in relevance (thanks, in no small part, on the strong desire by W3C to actually have two interoperable implementations).

WHATWG is a cooperation between Apple, Google, Mozilla, Microsoft as far as control goes.

W3C is already irrelevant some people just have not realized it yet

The Web is controlled by Google, Full Stop.

There is no "standards" there is Google. This has been shown more than a few times with things that Google Wanted, others opposes but some how the w3c always sides with google... hmmmm I wonder why that is

Nothing will replace it because 85ish Percent of the Browser Market is Chrome or Chromium Based. Chrome, Edge, Brave, <<insert name of your fav chrome clone here>>

I fully expect to see FireFox become chromium based with in the next 5 years.

While everyone was beating IE and Microsoft we surrendered the web to Google and Chrome

it will take a generation to win that back, if ever

These are fair points, and touches on what I was getting at, even if you arrive at a different conclusion - W3C is a standards body, but implementation is up to clients.

Why do you expect Firefox to go Chromium-based? It seems a large part of Firefox's success is that it is an alternative to Google code.

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