- From: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:02:25 +0200
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: Colloquial Web Group <public-colloquial@w3.org>
On Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Dave Pawson wrote: > On 18 September 2011 16:31, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com (mailto:w3c@marcosc.com)> wrote: > > > > Any favourites yet? further proposals? > > My personal interests are in markup usage: > > > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama/ > > > <personalNote> > I find this one intriguing. Open to automation too I think. > Who/how many users are writing pages with html5 markup? > Who is ... using html 3 in a DOCTYPE decl. > etc. Tracking semantic mutations over time in the use of markup would also be kinda cool… Like seeing how the meaning of <small> has changed over time (by looking at archive.com or something). > </personalNote> > > My gut reaction is that we'd run into trouble making any sort of a > statistically significant sample? > Would the results be of interest? To this group? To W3C? To others? I think this is absolutely valid. We should have a "business case" first. I.e., help a working group or provide evidence for the need for a spec. > > Just a thought. > > A scoping statement for this group is what I'm looking for, > if anyone has ideas? I would be in favor of having a working group Charter. The i18n WG works in a similar way: their charter states that they help other groups. Keen to hear what others think… -- Marcos Caceres
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