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Goals are numbered: is there a reason for it? it suggests a descending level of priority. Would unnumbered bullet listing be better?
You are right. I just numbered it at Wikisym to know how many we had. Changed that now. --Christoph
:-) a minor thought no more. Cheers Christoph! --MarkGaved
What does "extensible by omission" mean? -- RadomirDopieralski, 2006-09-04
It was EugeneKim's idea, but I think he meant that "what is not explicitly specified is okay to develop further." I.e. You can add new things to Creole, unless there is already something written on that.
The other choice would be to have an explicit extension mechanism (like XML namespaces), but they are a bit too messy for this kind of work.
Eugene, feel free to correct me :)
-- JanneJalkanen, 04-Sep-2006
After the discussion on the Talk.BoldAndItalics i think Radomir is right about a missing terminology here, a missing goal. The question is: Should Creole be visual or semantic?
citing him on Talk.BoldAndItalics "visual" markup is much easier to introduce, while the idea of "semantic" markup might be even impossible to explain.
If i look at the two goals of the WikiSym
- Readable, 2 votes
- Easy to learn/teach, 2 votes
and maybe even this here
- Clear separation of markup & content, 3 votes
then i think this adresses this.
They could all be combined to form one goal: Visual Markup -> Therefore Creole should be more visual than semantic. It's an usability issue.
Combining the votes it would be a top goal. So the top five goals would be:
- Collision Free
- Cover the common things people need
- Extensible by omission
- Not new (Principle of least innovation
- Visual over Semantic
Pleas tell me your thoughts on this, vote for it.
--Christoph, 15-Sep-2006