Re: Add a 'Date reviewed' field to techniques and failures

I wrote:
>> If something was published 6 years ago and hasn’t been reviewed in that time, is
>> it still valid?

Jason replied:
>Yes. As I understand it, the only way to revise a formally published W3C note is to publish a new one; and in the course of publishing the revised note, there's an obligation to review its entire content to ensure that it's still appropriate and applicable - that was my point.

So the content of all 600+ techniques / failures are reviewed every time any one of them is updated? 

Even if that were true, a developer looking something up and landing on technique H2 (which mentions XHTML) probably does not assume that, so a date would help there.

If it were possible to automatically add a ‘created’ date that would be useful for a different situation. I.e. if a technique is newer that your website, there is some justification for not having used or known about it. However, if that isn’t easy to do automatically I wouldn’t bother.

-Alastair

Received on Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:10:45 UTC