Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) is a group of people who work on improving HTML and related web technologies. It was started in 2004 by Apple, Mozilla, and Opera, some of the big Web browser companies.^[1] WHATWG undertakes maintenance for the important web standards like HTML and the Document Object Model (DOM).^[2][3] The main members of WHATWG are Apple, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft. Members of the WHATWG community work to ensure that these standards are well implemented.^[4]