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<p>AcelcNamon: ermonelv</p> <hr /> <div>cataletod<br /> = Why are content standards hard? =<br /> <br /> A brainstorm of the problems/distractions that plague typical content standards efforts. -[http://tantek.com/ Tantek]<br /> <br /> * completeness<br /> ** based on platonic ideals of content (as opposed to human behaviors)<br /> ** edge cases<br /> ** scope/feature creep - general purposeness<br /> ** extensibility<br /> * ego<br /> ** 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.<br /> ** desire to be the &quot;outside container&quot; (we'll put all other stuff inside us)<br /> * self/community-design bias<br /> ** designed by technologists for technologists (as opposed to for authors)<br /> ** 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<br /> ** localization / internationalization issues (first/last name are different in some countries)<br /> * legal issues, copyrights, patents etc.</div>

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