Re: User Intentions Explainer (was: List of Intentions)

Jason:

I want to encourage you to repost this message with cross posting at
least to public-editing-tf@w3.org, if not also to public-webapps@w3.org
other list, at least 

You make some excellent points, particularly on the need to agree on a
vocabulary, and this is the right time to hold this discussion in the
wider W3 context.

Yes, cross posting is awkward, but we're in a transition phase here that
I'm convinced will be resolved before too much more time passes.

Janina

Jason White writes:
> Responding only to Indie-UI in order to inform our discussion with Web Apps
> and possibly others.
> 
> I concur with Janina's insightful remark today that the "explainer" could
> evolve into a (potentially cross-group) requirements document. This raises
> several issues.
> 
> 1. Harmonization of terminology. We're already seeing differences between the
> terminology used by WEb Apps in connection with editing and our own terms for
> similar concepts, e.g., "abstract events" and "intentions". Naming conventions
> for events aren't harmonized either.
> 
> 2. Whether there should ultimately be one spec or several, and where the
> division should lie, is obviously up for discussion. Given the progress we've
> made to date, it makes good sense that support for interactive editing could
> reside in its own spec, with its own development schedule. this, after all, is
> work that we anticipated in IndieUI but postponed.
> 
> 3. If there are two or more specs to be produced in this area, we should
> provide appropriate cross-references (perhaps a non-normative reference in
> each spec to the requirements would be sufficient), so that user agent and Web
> application implementors alike can readily appreciate the relationships
> between the technologies described in the respective documents.
> 
> My main concern at this point is that the designs be consistent and
> that terminology be unified wherever possible.

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Received on Saturday, 9 August 2014 17:27:54 UTC