The 8 biggest myths about web standards

This is the first article of a new series with news on the different W3C Working Groups, with a strong focus on the CSS Working Group and associated task forces. I thought that before I start posting news, it would be good to preemptively clear some widespread myths about web standards and explain a bit how the standardisation process works.

For brevity and accuracy, the following terms are used in both the present article as well as most standards-related discussions:

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