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Define "priority of constituencies" #38

Closed lanthaler closed 5 years ago

lanthaler commented 10 years ago

Perhaps something similar to the "priority of constituencies" as defined by the HTML WG:

In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity. In other words costs or difficulties to the user should be given more weight than costs to authors; which in turn should be given more weight than costs to implementors; which should be given more weight than costs to authors of the spec itself, which should be given more weight than those proposing changes for theoretical reasons alone. Of course, it is preferred to make things better for multiple constituencies at once."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies

RubenVerborgh commented 10 years ago

Here are some of my desired characteristics (in order but by no means complete).

  1. facilitating automated consumption of hypermedia APIs
  2. consistent
  3. compatible with other vocabularies/standards
  4. easily readable by humans
  5. flexible
akuckartz commented 10 years ago

A problem is that different users sometimes do not agree which alternatives are easier or more difficult.

alien-mcl commented 5 years ago

Due to lack of activity in this issue, I think it's OK to close it.