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Mozilla/Opera shrinking from the W3 seems to have weak excuses. The idea that the standards being developed lean only toward intranet development seems off. I haven't seen anything that gives that appearance. To me it just sounds like they don't want to struggle against the big guys and they don't want to put in the hard work to maybe change poor direction.
Additionally these two groups have for years decried Microsoft's proprietary extensions and lack of standards support in order to add in "bells and whistles" code. Now these two companies do an about face using the same excuse MS does "it's about the users".
I personally don't see the need to maintain continual backwards compatability. There's a point where you need to stop and rethink a concept and get a fresh start. The old web technologies have lived well beyond their originally intended use. They're not likely to go away. At the same time we need to be looking ahead. As long as developers have the choice to develop in one standard (old) or another standard (new) does backward compatability matter?
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