>>and MS was only too happy not to support it in IE (personal cynic opinion).
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>This past spring I went to a one day Microsoft event in Milwaukee where one of the speakers was Mads Kristensen of Microsoft. He described his position as being responsible for MS's involvement in the HTML5 standards process. He said they want to be involved and strive for full compliance even if not every Microsoft product was compliant right away. There were some knowing chuckles around the room, which I took to mean as an assumption that he was referring to IE. Of course he wasn't going to stand there and say it that baldly in a room with several hundred developers.


;-)

the more aggravating flip side is that they are one of the few "elite" defining the standard.
If you look at the people discussing such (for us important) things, it smells of special interest...
Even if it is clear that devs from the companies developing browser have to be there,
how come an Oracle dev has time to code the implementation of IndexDB which is
to be preferred over widely used SQLite just to protect us from client side SQL...