On 1 Feb 2011, at 3:18 PM, Danny Ayers wrote:
On 1 February 2011 21:01, Ian Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd also love to know what factors impact credibility more than the
public (and industry) face of the organisation. What you might call
the World Wide Web aspect of the W3C.
To name two:
* The quality of the content
[DROPPING WAI IG ON THEIR REQUEST}
Ok, that's true enough in general. But when much of the content is
about recommendations, guidelines etc, when those recommendations and
guidelines aren't followed to (and even beyond) the letter on the
site, problems that would be considered trivial elsewhere become
significant.
I am not longer as well-versed in all the good practices that we
publish. I do know that in the site redesign we sought to fulfill many
of them. But there were some tradeoffs we made. For instance, we chose
to not create a separate page for mobile devices; we tried to have the
mobile and desktop versions be a single page. But as a result, we
don't pass the page weight requirement necessary to be mobileOK. I
would hope that people recognize that when you try to apply a large
number of constraints, you may not be able to satisfy all of them
perfectly.
For example the recent comment with the gloriously vitriolic subject
"W3 still a leader in inconsistency and hypocrisy" [1]. I had hoped
for something really meaty when that landed in my inbox. Alas its
primary evidence was that http://www.w3.org/ has an effective body
font size of 88.56%, somewhat contrary to the QA suggestion "Avoid
sizes in em smaller than 1em for text body".
Fair enough, that's quite an extreme reaction, but it does show how
sensitive people can be to these things. In essence it's perfectly
rational, I'd think twice about buying a book on photography which had
an unintentionally blurred cover.
I summarized the discussion on that topic about a year ago:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2010Jan/0012.html
Felix and Gérard have asked me to revisit the question which I intend
to do.
* The quality of the environment in which people work
Sorry, you lost me there.
W3C is a forum for discussion. If discussion in the forum is civil and
constructive, people will have more of a tendency to go there than if
it isn't.
_ Ian
Cheers,
Danny.
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2011Jan/
0018.html
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