Former required a lot of thought and consideration, synchronizing various actors of W3C, while the latter didn't. Also latter group has more money.
I'm sad really. This makes any open source Web Browser a second class citizen of the WWW.(@W3C) Great job, guys, great job. Seems like a big step on the road to fragmentation.
Indeed. Usually publication of FPWD is done when there is consensus in the group. In this case HTML WG Charis decided to ignore protests of group's members and publish despite objections on both technical and ideological grounds.
