- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:45:04 +0300
- To: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
In the light of recent email threads, I'd like to share the following pointers with the WG to explain why some participants may appear to resist suggestions presumptively. Color of the Bikeshed Short: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed Long: http://papayawhip.bikeshed.org/ Belling the Cat (explains resistance to suggestions that lack a plausible route from the current situation to the presented ideal situation) http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/67.html Opportunity Cost (explains resistance to changing things even to something that seems more elegant) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html (Particularly the two paragraphs starting with "Secondly, by using the free-as-in-beer argument".) Marginalism (explains resistance to features or changes that address conceivable but relatively rare use cases) http://www.econoclass.com/marginalism.html -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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