Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

The WHATWG was formed in response to the slow development of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web standards and W3C's decision to abandon HTML in favor of XML-based technologies.

The WHATWG works on a few standards, some of which include

• The HTML Living Standard (formerly known as HTML 5)
• The DOM standard which defines how W3C DOM Level 3 is to be replaced