On Thu, November 29, 2012 12:32 am, don kretz wrote:
I would pass it along but I wouldn't dare. I tried exactly that and got this as a typical response:
<pre> (or white-space: pre) is a very bad idea. [i]Very[/i] bad. Period.
To wide acclaim.
And had my post excised from the conversation as "off topic."
And accused of being too "philosophical" - apparently one of their strongest pejoratives.
Not an open-minded group I'm afraid.
Keep in mind those Best Practices are a fait-accompli imposition by a small group hand-picked by the GM who tends not to react well to disagreement or talking about reasons for things (philosophy).
I apologize for asking. Reviewing the DP discussion threads about the "HTML Best Practices" it quickly became apparent that not only are the recommendations less than best, but there is apparently little to no interest in actually establishing /Best/ practices. It appears, rather, to be an attempt to create "Community Practices", which may be less than optimal, but which are more or less uniform and predictable. While not as compelling as Best Practices, Community Practices are still valuable. It will require an extra processing step to transform a file matching the "DP Community Standard" to a true "Best Practice," but if the DP Community Standard is uniform, predictable and specific then the transformation process should be straight-forward. I would recommend surrendering gracefully when it becomes apparent that facts are not welcome, but gently promoting specificity, even excessive specificity, whenever possible.