- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 10:39:47 -0800
- To: spec-prod@w3.org
- Cc: chairs@w3.org, w3c-ac-forum <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>, Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
Awesome work, thank you. Two minor points: a. I wonder if the header section, which consists of links to other places, could be better styled/presented? No hurry, but it’s not a pretty first thing to read. b. Pseudo-code. We seem to be dropping into a style of describing algorithms with numbered lines and occasional goto statements (sometimes cleverly disguised as returnto). See, for example, 5.1 of <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-navigation-timing-2-20150924/> — search for the text “to step”. I have no problem with using indentation to indicate blocks (i.e. not needing “{“ and “}”), but overall, surely, as a community, we can do better than this? I admit this is only somewhat a styling/presentation problem, and more of a culture question, but is there anything we can do to make these pseudo-code blocks more readable, and well, (trying hard not to be pejorative), modern (at least, post-1968 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#cite_note-dijkstra1968-2>)? and a question: It would be great for the community to try this new style-sheet on a wide variety of documents. What steps would an editor take to try that, or are we waiting for a respec/bikeshed update? > On Oct 29, 2015, at 11:14 , Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org> wrote: > > > Dear Editors, > Advisory Committee representative, Chairs, > > Back in May [1], we expressed our intention to update the style sheets used by future W3C Drafts, starting on 1 January 2016. Elika Etemad kindly agreed [2] to be the Design point person for 2015. > > The final proposal from Elika is available: > http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/design/w3c-restyle/2016/ > > A sample document is also available: > http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/design/w3c-restyle/2016/sample > > The list of substantive improvements is available: > http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/design/w3c-restyle/2016/base.css > > We welcome your feedback on the proposal by 27 November 2015 at the latest, in e-mail to <spec-prod@w3.org> or using Github [3]. > > Thank you, > > For Tim Berners-Lee, Director, > Philippe Le Hegaret, Interaction Domain Lead, > Elika Etemad, Design point person for 2015; > Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications > > [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2015AprJun/0010.html > [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/spec-prod/2015AprJun/0018.html > [3] https://github.com/w3c/tr-design/issues > > -- > Coralie Mercier - W3C Marketing & Communications - http://www.w3.org > mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/ > > David Singer Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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