Category talk:Web Standards

From MDC

We should state what this topic/category is about and clean it from articles that don't meet that criteria. --Nickolay 12:38, 9 March 2006 (PST)

<asqueella> then we need to define what the web standards category/topic is about
<asqueella> is it about evangelism?
<asqueella> or is it about the standards themselves?
<dria> can it be about both?
<asqueella> then how web development is different?
<shaver> web development would include best practices, tools, design guidance, 
         compatibility information, articles on testing, etc.
<dria> ah i see
<asqueella> I guess this is my problem with these topics - we don't define what 
            exactly is a topic about
<shaver> we are never going to have an algorithmic system for topics
<dria> I guess if you call CSS a web standard and think it should be included in 
       Web Standards, then yeah, it's more meta/evangelism
<shaver> "if someone goes to Web Standards, will they be surprised by what they see?"
<shaver> Web Standards is about standards-in-the-large, not about specific details 
         of the standards themselves
<shaver> "CSS 3.1 public draft posted" would appear in Standards
<shaver> "How to do 2-column layout with CSS" would not, IMO
<shaver> (they'd probably both be tagged as "CSS", as a different issue entirely)
<dria> afk a few
=-= dria is now known as dria-afk
<asqueella> shaver: that makes sense, but it seems to me that of all the articles 
            on http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Category:Web_Standards only 5 or 
            so should actually be there according to your definition
<asqueella> I don't say we should have "algorithmic system" for topics, I say we 
            should state what the topic is about
<shaver> yeah, I'd move some of those
<shaver> right, I was just twigging on "exactly" in your first description
<shaver> there will always be fuzz