Re: Yahoo Style Guide No Longer Available

Hey Doug

My two cents worth, I like that idea of adapting an existing one to better
suite our needs and like you said, thus filling the gap that has been left.
I also think it would go nicely with the fact that we are documenting the
web. Not only can you view the properties, but also a style guide to help
you write cleaner code, etc.

// Nic da Costa



On 22 August 2013 11:08, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks–
>
> We reference the Yahoo! Style Guide as our style guide; at the time we
> made that decision, the online version of the Yahoo! Style Guide was free.
>
> Apparently, sometime in June they took down the online version, and
> started pointing instead to printed (commercial) versions.
>
> We have a few options at this point
> * continue to point at the Yahoo! Style Guide, which is (for now, anyway)
> still available on Archive.org [1]
> * point to a different resource [2], noting that only Yahoo! had
> comprehensive focus on online writing
> * adapt an existing one that has an open license and is close enough [3]
> * write our own
> * something else
>
> Personally, I like the idea of adapting the Gov.uk style guide to our use,
> giving them attribution of course.
>
>
> Writing our own or adapting one gives us an interesting longer-term
> opportunity to fill the void that Yahoo! has left, specifically focused
> perhaps on writing online documentation. But that may be a bit ambitious
> and meta to consider now.
>
> [1] http://web.archive.org/web/**20121014054923/http://**
> styleguide.yahoo.com/<http://web.archive.org/web/20121014054923/http://styleguide.yahoo.com/>
> [2] http://www.dailywritingtips.**com/5-online-style-guides/<http://www.dailywritingtips.com/5-online-style-guides/>
> [3] https://www.gov.uk/**designprinciples/styleguide<https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples/styleguide>
>
> Regards-
> -Doug
>
>