Re: W3C dead?
After seeing what emerged for the HTML5 spec, I'm not entirely sure that WHATWG could do much worse.
Because HTML 1-4 were soooo good in the first place.
In an ideal world someone would take pretty much everyone who had a hand in 95% of the "standards" out there around the back of the cow shed and have them shot. Apple engineers can go to the front of the queue for the utterly irrational, half-arsed, and frankly annoying effort they called HLS. (Which I haven't been dealing with on a daily basis for the last year, honest.)