In the process of defining a prototytping and development framework that will allow the department I work in to control UI aspects while letting the technical team concentrate on the backend stuff. Part of this project involves me creating initial HTML prototypes that are 'wireframe' in appearance (think: boxy simple css with layout and not much else) and to ensure that these developers don't go inventing new terms and styles, a controlled and versioned list of naming conventions. In other words:
> "Here are the id and class names that you can use and nothing else" I can come up with what I *think* are suitable naming conventions for things like navigation, headers, footers etc, but for financial data I need to take a little more care. Something that has occurred to me in the past is how great it would be if there was consistency in naming conventions for data for example classes that defined: - a statment - a debit figure - a credit figure - a total of any kind - an interest figure etc etc The benefits are reduced when you're dealing with a banking system that's closed off by security login (e.g. no real use for aggregrators etc), but there are definite benefits in terms of defining a standard that can be adopted by different organizations, perhaps saving time in development/analysis stage, and for users with specific needs that have user style sheets, how great would it be if their banking/financial data styles werwe portable and usable across different sites. So, that's the preamble. Here are the questions: - Has there been any discussion of this in the past? (I checked archives but couldn't find) - If not, is anyone aware of any existing 'standard' for naming/structuring financial data? - What would the community here recommend as my next steps to ensure that the work I'm doing internally can dovetail with some kind of definition that is publicly available? I appreciate your comments - this is all new to me (first post on mf.org!) Thanks all Ian Lloyd --------------------------------- A beginner's guide to web standards: http://beginningwebdesign.com/ My new book, out now on SitePoint _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
