- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:29:58 -0700
- To: "Williams, Stuart" <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: "'Dan Connolly'" <connolly@w3.org>, "'Ian B. Jacobs'" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Williams, Stuart wrote: > I would like someone to be able to read just the Introduction to our > document and to come away with an appreciation of Web Architecture. The > (current) title of the document is "Architectural Principles of the World > Wide Web". A question I would expect to be answered by the end of the > introduction is *what* those prinicples are. We have indicated that we aim > to minimalist in the sense of state some minimum number of > necessary/important/essential principles - so the list should not be > unmanagably large. I don't think we should be challenging our readers to > 'weed' them out from a longer narrative. I think we should state them > together, up front near the beginning of the document and justify/motivate > them in the sequel. > > Different people will approach our document with different intent. Some will > approach with a spirit of enquiry; Some to question/challenge whether they > share in whatever concensus the document represents; Some in search of an > authorative source to resolve an issue... thus spake the TAG. I think each > audience is better served by actually stating the architectural principles > near the front. I agree with this 100%. -Tim
Received on Thursday, 15 August 2002 10:30:14 UTC