- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:42:31 -0500
- To: Virginia DeBolt <virginia@vdebolt.com>
- CC: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>, public-webed@w3.org
Hi, Virginia- (BCCing Aarron, so he is aware of the conversation) On 12/9/11 3:46 PM, Virginia DeBolt wrote: > Here's the URL for that HTML5 intro. > http://wasp.placenamehere.com/wiki/edu-act:html5_module > > I changed the references to XHTML (where appropriate) on Web Design I and II > courses. I added some HTML 5 books as resources to the Web Design I course. > I think we should do the same with the Web Design II course, but will defer > to Aarron on what he would like to add there. > > Virginia Makes sense. Aarron isn't currently a member of the WebEd Community Group, but naturally, he'd be very welcome, if he has the time. I think we should honor the intent of the original authors as much as possible, but I don't think anyone intended these works to be static documents. They should change over time, as appropriate to the current needs and best practices. Regards- -Doug > Doug Schepers wrote: > >> Hi, Virginia- >> >> On 12/9/11 11:42 AM, Virginia DeBolt wrote: >>>>> I note that the term "(X)HTML" is used widely throughout the curriculum; we >>>>> may wish to change to the term "HTML", if we consider that a current best >>>>> practice. >>>> >>>> We are using HTML5 as the markup standard throughout the rest of the >>>> material, >>>> so yes, we should change it to HTML, imo, for consistency's sake. >>> >>> I would be willing to go through the Web Design I& II courses to change >>> (X)HTML to HTML. >> >> That would be great! >> >> In general, there are places where an author may have actually meant >> XHTML (e.g. referring to specific well-formedness or validity >> constraints), but I don't know if that occurs in any of the InterACT >> stuff... I leave it to your judgment. >> >> >>> I also want to point out that I created an introductory HTML5 module that >>> was never published on the http://interact.webstandards.org/ site, but it is >>> ready to go on the WaSP EduTF wiki. I can provide the URL if you want it. >> >> That would be fantastic! We have a lot of HTML5 reference material, but >> not a curriculum module. (Of course, we will want to continue to >> coordinate with WaSP EduTF on this stuff.) >> >> You're awesome, Virginia! Great to see you here in WebEd CG. >> >> Regards- >> -Doug > > --------------------------------------------------- > Virginia DeBolt > > Author: http://vdebolt.com/ > Blogging at http://www.webteacher.ws/ > http://first50.wordpress.com/ > http://blogher.com/blog/virginia-debolt > Twitter: http://twitter.com/vdebolt > --------------------------------------------------- > >
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