- From: Aarron Walter <aarronwalter@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:47:14 -0500
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Virginia DeBolt <virginia@vdebolt.com>, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>, public-webed@w3.org
Virginia, I trust your judgement on changes to these courses. Thanks for thinking of me, but I am happy to see them evolve to keep pace with our ever changing industry. \A/ On Dec 9, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: > 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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