- From: Eliot Graff <Eliot.Graff@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:24:20 +0000
- To: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>, Suresh Chitturi <schitturi@rim.com>
- CC: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Another nit. Where companies are still named, I alphabetized the lists, with the exception of leading with "W3C". >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Mills [mailto:cmills@opera.com] >Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:14 AM >To: Suresh Chitturi >Cc: public-webplatform@w3.org >Subject: Re: Proposal for updating links on webplatform.org > >Great suggestion Suresh - change made. > >Chris Mills >Opera Software, dev.opera.com >W3C Fellow, web education and webplatform.org Author of "Practical CSS3: >Develop and Design" (http://goo.gl/AKf9M) > >On 11 Dec 2012, at 17:07, Suresh Chitturi <schitturi@rim.com> wrote: > >> Looks very good. >> >> Just one comment under "What is Webplatform.org" >> >> Change: >> >> "It was founded by several stewards, including Opera, Mozilla, Google, the >W3C, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, Nokia and Facebook, with the aim of ...." >> >> To: >> >> "It is supported by several Stewards, with the aim of ...." (point >> "Stewards" to the Stewards page) >> >> Rationale: >> Since this section is intended to merely describe "What is Webplatform.org" >the steward list may be more appropriate in the other sections. Alternatively, >a pointer to Stewards page makes it future proof (in the event more stewards >join). >> >> >> Suresh Chitturi >> Research In Motion Corporation >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Chris Mills [mailto:cmills@opera.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:03 AM >>> To: Jonathan Garbee >>> Cc: public-webplatform@w3.org >>> Subject: Re: Proposal for updating links on webplatform.org >>> >>> I've had a go at drafting some text for the proposed "About" page. Is >>> the kind of thing we want? >>> >>> What is Webplatform.org? >>> >>> Webplatform.org is a community-driven documentation site mainly >>> focused on client-side web technologies. It was founded by several >>> stewards, including Opera, Mozilla, Google, the W3C, Microsoft, >>> Adobe, HP, Nokia and Facebook, with the aim of creating a definitive >>> resource for web developers and designers to find all the information >>> they need to do their job. The main part of the site is a wiki >>> containing tutorials, concept articles and reference docs, but we >>> also have a Q&A section, blog, and IRC chat, and we are aiming to >>> expand out capabilities in the future to include live code examples, >resources for educators, and more. >>> >>> How the site was created >>> >>> About a year ago, a small group - including people of W3C, Opera, >>> Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and others - started talking about a new >>> documentation project for information covering open web standards. >>> Yes, there are lots of documentation sites already available, but >>> some of them are low quality, out- of-date, or both. Some have great >>> information about some subjects, but not others. And generally it >>> takes web developers a lot of time to find all the information they >>> want. It would be great for all the information providers to get >>> together and produce one authoritative resource to tell web designers and >developers all the information they need to know to do their job. >>> >>> The idea was very warmly received by all parties involved, and so we >>> all started solving problems together, working out an infrastructure >>> for the project that would scale well and handle lots of different >>> contributors, working out marketing and business plans, and putting >>> together a large list of content from different resources - such as >>> HTML5 rocks, MSDN, MDN and Opera's web standards curriculum - that >>> would act as seed content to get the project started. >>> >>> Webplatform.org philosophy >>> >>> Ideally, we want this to be an ever-evolving project controlled and >>> written by the community, rather than a bunch of big name vendors >>> telling everyone what to do. The stewards are just there to provide >>> structure and funding. We want everyone involved in the web community >>> to feel they have to right to contribute new material and improve >>> existing articles. It's your web, documented your way. >>> >>> >>> On 11 Dec 2012, at 09:49, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 7 Dec 2012, at 12:28, Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Well, there should be an "about" page [1] since that issue has been >>>>> sitting >>> for quite a while. That should be the "philosophy" if there is to be >>> a page for it. >>>> >>>> So, adding an "About/philosophy" page to the site, and changing one >>>> of the >>> links in the main navigation to "About" - yup, I think this is >>> definitely a good idea. >>>> >>>> I am happy to draft this. What do we need on there? >>>> >>>> 1. More detail about what webplatform is 2. Why the site was created >>>> 3. Philosophy behind it >>>> >>>> Anything else? >>>> >>>>> >>>>> The more link also needs to go [2] since it is a UX nightmare. >>>>> There is no >>> reason to have multiple links go to the same area in the same nav >>> menu with different names. Should it ever have a different name in any >navigation item? >>>> >>>> Sorry - I read the bug, but I don't know what other page you are >>>> suggesting >>> adding here - it is as if a part of the explanation on the bug is >>> missing? Can you elaborate on this second point? >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I also don't think we need a link to the stewards in the main navigation.. >>> There is a block of text lower down in the page going to the stewards >>> page and then the footer logos on every page. >>>> >>>> Yeah, I agree really - I was just throwing it out there as another >>>> idea. But >>> your reaction confirms it in my mind as a bad idea. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19410 >>>>> [2] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19557 >>>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential >information, privileged material (including material protected by the solicitor- >client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public information. Any >use of this information by anyone other than the intended recipient is >prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately >reply to the sender and delete this information from your system. Use, >dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this transmission by >unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. >> >
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