- From: Sebastian Rahtz <Sebastian.Rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:48:10 +0000
- To: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- CC: public-i18n-its@w3.org
Felix Sasaki wrote: > > I like dirty, but useful design :) Hmm. This is what we do as individuals. When we are working for a standards organisation, I'd argue that dirty design will always come back to make trouble further down the line. I would not burn at the stake for this, but I think that simple designs have patterns which apply across the board. Having category A useable in one way, and category B work in two ways, seems odd. But I take Yves' point that it is possible to draw a syntactic distinction between information categories with enumerated values, and those with unrestricted text. > - On general importance of "mapping": I am afraid that we are loosing > our perspective. IMO it should not be "let's describe everything with > equal importance, which is possible with ITS?", but rather "let's > concentrate on core features". Mapping is not a core feature (IMO) If it's not a core feature, then lets not do it at all. Leave it for version 2, and see if it is really needed :-} -- Sebastian Rahtz *Open Source and Sustainability* 10-12 April 2006, Oxford http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/2006-04-10-12/ Information Manager, Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431 OSS Watch: JISC Open Source Advisory Service http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk
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