Hi, Folks- Thanks for all the great feedback so far!
I've discovered the existing list spec-prod, which seems like a better place for these discussions, so I'd ask that anyone interested in following up further respond to spec-prod instead of www-archive.
Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs Doug Schepers wrote (on 11/23/09 3:44 AM):
Hi, Folks- (Forwarding and summarizing from Member-only space.) I'm not the first one to suggest this (apparently Karl tried to push this earlier this year), but I really think it's time we establish some standardized style conventions for W3C specs. I took a couple hours to pull together a proposal (attached) based on Karl's original along with feedback to that proposal, and conventions that I'm familiar with from the SVG and DOM3 Events specs; I'm not married to any of it, but any counter-proposals should probably stick with at least the level of granularity laid out here. Please see the attached, and send in counter-proposals or thoughts for consideration. I plan on using this (or whatever variant we all decide on) in the specs I'm editing (some SVG specs, DOM3 Events). I encourage others to do the same, and report back what works, what doesn't work, what's missing, etc. (Oh, and I'd really like to see this working with Robin Berjon's ReSpec.js: http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/ReSpec.js/documentation.html ) Thanks! -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps \o/ WGs
