Hey Doug My two cents worth, I like that idea of adapting an existing one to better suite our needs and like you said, thus filling the gap that has been left. I also think it would go nicely with the fact that we are documenting the web. Not only can you view the properties, but also a style guide to help you write cleaner code, etc. // Nic da Costa On 22 August 2013 11:08, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > Hi, folks– > > We reference the Yahoo! Style Guide as our style guide; at the time we > made that decision, the online version of the Yahoo! Style Guide was free. > > Apparently, sometime in June they took down the online version, and > started pointing instead to printed (commercial) versions. > > We have a few options at this point > * continue to point at the Yahoo! Style Guide, which is (for now, anyway) > still available on Archive.org [1] > * point to a different resource [2], noting that only Yahoo! had > comprehensive focus on online writing > * adapt an existing one that has an open license and is close enough [3] > * write our own > * something else > > Personally, I like the idea of adapting the Gov.uk style guide to our use, > giving them attribution of course. > > > Writing our own or adapting one gives us an interesting longer-term > opportunity to fill the void that Yahoo! has left, specifically focused > perhaps on writing online documentation. But that may be a bit ambitious > and meta to consider now. > > [1] http://web.archive.org/web/**20121014054923/http://** > styleguide.yahoo.com/<http://web.archive.org/web/20121014054923/http://styleguide.yahoo.com/> > [2] http://www.dailywritingtips.**com/5-online-style-guides/<http://www.dailywritingtips.com/5-online-style-guides/> > [3] https://www.gov.uk/**designprinciples/styleguide<https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples/styleguide> > > Regards- > -Doug > >Received on Thursday, 22 August 2013 09:21:31 UTC
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