Re: web standards project article

Please forgive the intrusion from a lurking novice, seeking a small 
understanding:

>No, sorry Molly, but what turns people off is hearing a lot of different
>things on the same matters from different people. 
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Both of you are correct. Elitism and differing guidance are both turn 
offs. The latter creates confusion and the former is often applied when 
the novice seeks clarification. It's happened to me on more than one 
occasion. Each by itself is bad enough, but coupled together it is often 
devastating to someone earnestly seeking to apply standards to various 
projects.

>Sorry Molly, but complaining about this here is unhelpful. If you think
>these matters are not well-documented or unsolved, you should provide
>your constructive criticism to the responsible Working Group, which is
>the W3C HTML Working Group, which you can contact through the mailing
>list www-html-editor@w3.org as noted in most of their publications.
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Maybe it's not the correct forum, but she is correct. That item is one 
of the major sources of confusion and frustration for many. If that 
issue cannot be addressed by someone once and for all (well as "for all" 
as the web allows)  this list can talk standards until everyone is blue 
in the face and in the end all it will amount to is an elite navel 
gazing exercise. Very few people will be able to implement much if any 
of the standards you advocate without clear authoritative guidance on 
the technical aspect of serving it.


Sorry to intrude...

Eric

Received on Friday, 29 October 2004 17:05:21 UTC