Best practice - implies quantitative result in a qualitative direction Convention - agnostic on both counts and also on any other metric. eg I do something by convention - so it represents my practice, but possibly no one else's. Fraser Goffin wrote: 88aed1ea0807210112m350a4405j41d07e87f85b3523@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">I agree. Perhaps it would be better to use the terms 'COMMON practice' and 'BEST practice' rather than 'convention' (the association seems more intuitive as does the distinction) ? Fraser. 2008/7/21 Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>:On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 01:04:09PM -0400, Costello, Roger L. wrote:Is a convention the same thing as a best practice?No, not in general. Things that are "usually done" or that are done by most people are not necessarily the best way to do things or even good things to do. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php_______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php |
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