Re: Advice for comment

On 09/17/2010 04:20 AM, Bijan Parsia wrote:
> I'd just like to draw attention to some posts by Shelley providing
> support for commenting on the specs:
> http://realtech.burningbird.net/reviewcomment-w3c-html5-specification
> http://realtech.burningbird.net/how-comment-and-when
> http://realtech.burningbird.net/reviewcomment-w3c-html5-specification/html5-document-structure
>
> I think these are really good and helpful, esp. for people new to the
> spec and the W3C. One thing I notice about the HTMLWG's home page:
> http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
> is that it's *not* particularly friendly to such an audience (it's a
> more typical working WG page; there's not even a list of links to
> tutorials, or to these wikipedia pages:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5)
> something akin to the latter will be invaluable).
>
> Given the wide and diverse reviewers expected and desired for last call,
> I think it would be very good to have a more friendly entry point. I
> know there are other sources of friendliness, so I don't think it
> necessarily requires a huge chunk of work on the WG's part.

If you have suggestions about the web site, please open a bug on the 
"HTML WG website" using bugzilla: http://tinyurl.com/2ce2zyd

Overall, I would feel more comfortable linking to content such as this 
if were edited collaboratively, and therefore not weren't written in 
first person.  I would suggest using the W3C Wiki:

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/

> Cheers,
> Bijan.

- Sam Ruby

Received on Friday, 17 September 2010 11:52:58 UTC