Ah, Bert Bos, the W3C&#x27;s &quot;style activity lead&quot;. What a joke.<p>He&#x27;s the guy who wasted a decade writing an ASCII-art based &quot;template layout module&quot;[1], which he was never able to persuade a single browser vendor to implement. It eventually got demoted from a working draft to a &quot;note&quot;, which is the W3C&#x27;s polite term for standards fanfiction.<p>His other major achievement is putting his own photo on every one of the CSS working group&#x27;s web pages. I&#x27;m not joking: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;Style&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;#endmatter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;Style&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;#endmatter</a> .<p>And let me tell you tale of that photo&#x2F;byline. It originally appeared on the working group&#x27;s crappy 1990s site, which persisted until the late 2000s (because that&#x27;s how fast things move at the W3C), and you could kinda forgive it as one of the dumb things people put on dumb 1990s websites.<p>Anyway, eventually it became too embarrassing that the working group responsible for CSS had such a shitty site, and some other members of the group took it upon themselves to produce a shiny new design with useful content, but sans Bos&#x27; photo. This done, they submitted what they&#x27;d come up to the W3C. Eventually, it showed up on the W3C&#x27;s servers but, surprise, surprise, it had been rather mangled, and Bos&#x27; photo was back, clumsily shoved into a footer where it hadn&#x27;t originally been.<p>It&#x27;s a small, petty thing, but all the more hilarious for it. God knows how that guy still has a job at the W3C. Maybe he&#x27;s best friends with Tim Berners-Lee, or something?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;css-template-3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.w3.org&#x2F;TR&#x2F;css-template-3&#x2F;</a>