Hi All On 30/11/06, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I disagree, its all about the audience - W3C is a resource listing technical specifications of complex standards going back well over 10 years. I'd imagine its audience is highly technical and couldn't really give a damn about the design or fluff text.
I guess that's the problem. The W3C's audience is, directly, us techies (who have all read the HTTP spec several times, right?) but also, indirectly, everyone who uses the web.
If you want to learn HTML or any of the other standards specified then you should buy a book like HTML Goodies by Joe Burns (like I did!), but if you want the definitive, specified standard then you should go to the no-nonsense w3.org site.
Again I agree, but for the want of more made up stats only 0.05% of web users want to know how it's made. So the W3C has a choice to make. Should it remain, and focus upon, being a technical specification and standards body soly for techies (so people should stop including the initials in tenders and non-proper-technical documents and the like) or should it expand it's remit into the social "making the web a better place" political spectrum? I think the community model around backstage has something to offer both approaches. For the former, it's a good model of community involvement and submission, if mainly a UK based one. For the latter, then the general elevation of usefulness, in terms of ideas, is an interesting one. Just my tuppence. I might have more to say on the whole W3C subject soon too as the company I work for recently joined. So I get to be on the other side of the fence for a while. G
J ________________________________________________ Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - CBBC Interactive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk: (0208 22) 59487 Mobile: 07976500729 "Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here" - Ray Bradbury -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard P Edwards Sent: 30 November 2006 14:44 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] W3C and the Overton window From looking at their web-site, perhaps Backstage could show them the way to a better designer. On the front page it mentions W3C over 40 times...... I fell of my seat before I got to the About page, but I was smiling broadly as I got up off the floor. Freakonomics can definitely be a recommendation for them if they agree with Overton. For sure they could do more to include, involve, and promote the positive direction. Beginning with the language they use. Regards Richard - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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