[1] The working group was co-chaired by Paul Cotton, Sam Ruby, and Maciej Stachowiak.
To participate in the group, the steps involved having a W3C account and filling out a form for copyright, content etc.
The creation of an HTML Working Group was first proposed at the 30th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Toronto, on 26 July 1994.
The Group also published RCF 1942 in May 1996, a document which provides an experimental description of an extended set of HTML tables.
The traditional version of HTML allowed uncertainties in code review, which means even there are some mistakes in the web pages, browser will still display the contents through error detection and correction.
[7] The W3C HTMLWG hoped to boost a more regulated development of the future of the Internet through rigorous standards.
As a result, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of W3C announced that the W3C's HTMLWG would stop to jointly develop HTML5 with WHATWG.