Best practices or techniques?

I'm wondering whether we should change Best Practices for Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts[1] before publishing to replace the notion of 'Best Practices' with 'Techniques'.  

We originally started out writing techniques documents, but at some point felt that we wanted to highlight that these were not full tutorials, but focussed on a particular set of do's and don'ts.  We also wanted to align them with the best practices that the Mobile Web folks were working on. However, our 'best practices' are not W3C Recommendations, nor do we propose that you measure conformance against the things recommended in the document. I'd like the points in the document to cover various types of hints, tips, guidelines and best practices, some of which may only be 'consider-trying-this' types of thing rather than things to measure conformance to some standard.

Am I worrying too much, or would it be better to avoid the 'best practices' terminology for this? 

I had a quick look, and I think that making the change to the bidi text would be pretty much straightforward.

RI

[1] http://www.w3.org/International/docs/bp-html-bidi/

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

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Received on Monday, 27 July 2009 18:05:04 UTC