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A brainstorm of the problems/distractions that plague typical content standards efforts. -[http://tantek.com/ Tantek] | A brainstorm of the problems/distractions that plague typical content standards efforts. -[http://tantek.com/ Tantek] | ||
* completeness | * completeness | ||
** based on platonic ideals of content (as opposed to human behaviors) | ** based on platonic ideals of content (as opposed to human behaviors) | ||
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** scope/feature creep - general purposeness | ** scope/feature creep - general purposeness | ||
** extensibility | ** extensibility | ||
* self-design bias | * ego | ||
** reinvention - web and modern search engines have reduced excuses for this, but we will still have NIH behaviors even when ignorance isn't a problem. | |||
** desire to be the "outside container" (we'll put all other stuff inside us) | |||
* self/community-design bias | |||
** designed by technologists for technologists (as opposed to for authors) | ** designed by technologists for technologists (as opposed to for authors) | ||
** note: it was an *accident* that HTML was easy to learn for non-technical authors, designers, artists etc.: http://tantek.com/log/2003/0813t1158.html#handauthoring | ** note: it was an *accident* that HTML was easy to learn for non-technical authors, designers, artists etc.: http://tantek.com/log/2003/0813t1158.html#handauthoring | ||
** localization / internationalization issues (first/last name are different in some countries) | ** localization / internationalization issues (first/last name are different in some countries) | ||
* legal issues, copyrights, patents etc. | * legal issues, copyrights, patents etc. | ||
Latest revision as of 19:02, 20 December 2008
Why are content standards hard?
A brainstorm of the problems/distractions that plague typical content standards efforts. -Tantek
- completeness
- based on platonic ideals of content (as opposed to human behaviors)
- edge cases
- scope/feature creep - general purposeness
- extensibility
- ego
- reinvention - web and modern search engines have reduced excuses for this, but we will still have NIH behaviors even when ignorance isn't a problem.
- desire to be the "outside container" (we'll put all other stuff inside us)
- self/community-design bias
- designed by technologists for technologists (as opposed to for authors)
- note: it was an *accident* that HTML was easy to learn for non-technical authors, designers, artists etc.: http://tantek.com/log/2003/0813t1158.html#handauthoring
- localization / internationalization issues (first/last name are different in some countries)
- legal issues, copyrights, patents etc.