- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:07:59 -0500
- To: www-qa-wg@w3.org
Le 04 févr. 2004, à 15:04, Patrick Curran a écrit : > The masses don't read specs. They are read be implementors of the > technology and by people developing tests of those implementations. Unfortunately it's not exactly true depending on the technology. The masses do read the specifications for many reasons: - history: Web technologies has developped at the begining because common people were looking at the technology to be able to do something with it. - lack of tutorial: Many of the W3C specs lack of tutorials, practical guides, etc and/or the books available in the bookshops may have... (hmm hmm) certains deficiencies. - Access: W3C Specs are freely accessible, people are curious, they want to read it. PS: Another point, we didn't approach, but I put it as a small note. People like to read in their own language, so specs written in English for a none English native developer are very hard to read. AND spec are very hard to translate because of given examples which are tied to a culture, because of concepts which translate not very well in another language and worse, sometimes the technology is culturally oriented like RDF (use of english (western) grammar for the technology [predicat, subject, object]) but we have to live with that ;) -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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