Love the idea. I don't think it should be a replacement for many things which are best learnt through hard expereince, but rather a 7 steps to success guide for building a standards-based website.
Sure, you could include best practice code samples, particularly for off-page techniques etc. But I don't think providing baby steps for every eventuality is the answer. That, in itself, has the potential for creating lazy beginners. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Czeiger Sent: Monday, 19 December 2005 2:56 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] webpatterns and patternquiz Actually, it would be great if we could have something like this which would form a 'toolkit' of sorts where we can take 'developer-authorised' code snippets and put them in our pages. Such as finally having a collection of code so we don't have to ask: "What's the most semantic and valid way of marking up addresses?" and such. This would save a lot of time, especially for CSS learners / new-to-standards folk. Semantically marked up Photo Gallery? Go to the Photo Gallery section and choose from sevral layouts, all given the thumbs up by CSS Samurais and such out there. Best way to do breadcrumbs (once and for all)? Sure check out the Navigation section. etc... What do you think? R ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Allsopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:34 PM Subject: [WSG] webpatterns and patternquiz Hi all, Some of you might have read my recent article, WebPatterns and WebSemantics http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpatterns_and.html In a nutshell, a pattern is a "a problem which occurs over and over again . and . the core of the solution to that problem". When we build sites, unconsciously we use patterns all the time - it's just very little work has been done trying to capture and document them. That's what I've started http://webpatterns.org to do. The first big step here is the "PatternQuiz" http://webpatterns.org/wordpress/?p=4 the aim of which is to explore existing patterns in web development. I've started with site level patterns. I'm really interested in the thoughts of all developers about the patterns which we use, so if you have a moment please come along, and contribute your thoughts and experience john John Allsopp style master :: css editor :: http://westciv.com/style_master support forum :: http://support.westciv.com blog :: dog or higher :: http://blogs.westciv.com/dog_or_higher Web Essentials web development conference http://we05.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************