- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:14:18 +0200
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> 8. == Design Principles that likely should be added == >> >> - Work from Use Cases - This is clearly a key practice, and important >> to keep in mind to prepare a successful proposal. > > Aka Lachy's proposal for a replacement for Cowpaths [2]. Seemingly > proposed because Cowpaths was not able to get the results that was > wanted. After all, Cowpaths cannot justify keeping @profile out. > ... > [2] http://www.w3.org/mid/4A1FE9A0.3020102@lachy.id.au My suggested replacement for Pave the Cowpaths had nothing do to with getting the results I wanted, and was absolutely not related to any position on the profile attribute issue. The issue is, as I stated in the linked email, is that the principle is widely misunderstood and misapplied and needs a name the more clearly conveys its intended meaning. In fact, in hindsight, even my suggestion (the name of which was actually originally proposed in the wiki by someone else [1]) doesn't accurately capture the meaning of the principle. It sort of does in so far as it involves looking at what use cases people are trying to address, but as was discussed in IRC shortly after I'd sent the aforementioned email, it also involves looking at the techniques people are using to address them too [2]. [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/HTML/ProposedDesignPrinciples [2] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20090529#l-710 -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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