- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:49:24 -0700
- To: Henrik Dvergsdal <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On May 15, 2007, at 3:14 AM, Henrik Dvergsdal wrote: > > > On 15 May 2007, at 11:04, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > >>> Do we have any data on how things are actually used "in the wild"? >> >> Some have gathered data, although I don't think we have anything >> that could be considered reproducible to a scientific level. >> >> However, my point was not necessarily to argue the validity of >> these particular parts of the spec, but rather to cite them as >> examples of the sort of thing that the design principle refers to. > > OK. But I wonder how we can get beyond the level of personal gut > feeling on these issues. We need to know the cowpaths before we can > pave them. I guess this could be an interesting research project. > Doesn't necessarily need to be very ambitious. Some data is better > than no data. And I think we really need it. > > So, if anyone has done something in this "field", at least I would > be interested in knowing about it - either on or off this list. Ian Hickson has done research and posted the results in summary form, the reason I do not cite that as scientific research is because the procedure and dataset are not published because they are proprietary to Google. Regards, Maciej
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