Re: [MACCAWS] Software Test Regimes

On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 11:33 AM, Rick [Kitty5] wrote:

> I have to agree with this, hacks and cheats may be bad but 
> sometimes they
> provide the only soloution. My clients dont care how I arrive at the
> finished product, only that I do arrive and that it meets spec.

If they even care about the spec....

> While there is a need for hacks I suggest we support them, perhaps even
> going as far to explain any pros and cons.

I'm not sure there's any reason to even mention 'hacks.' I mean, 
either a document validates or it doesn't, no? If it validates, I'd 
say it's a noop as far as this particular group is concerned--at 
least at first.

Maybe the FAQ gets some sort of "whenever possible, developers are 
encouraged to adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of the 
standard" and have done.

In v. 2.0, specific hacks can perhaps be evaluated based on how 
'damaging' they are to the goals of standards adherence (i.e., how 
badly tehy violate the separation of logic/structure/content). To 
start, though, that sounds like a great way to start some religious 
wars, and even assuming everyone here is professional enough to 
avoid them (I know I /never/ get drawn into such sillines, ever; 
especially not about free stats on the evolt or css-discuss 
lists ;-), it would still be rather time-consuming. I think that 
time could be better spent on research to make the business case, 
rather than on focusing too much on the technical details.


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