[thelist] website web site & Style Guides

[Kevin]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:11:19PM -0400, Lee Fleming wrote:
> > From: "Kevin" <p+evolt at redbrick.dcu.ie>
> > To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] website web site

> > I think we should be really worried when we start using Gerry McGovern as
> > a reference.

> Do you have a reason for your opinion? Why should we be worried? It's a
> cheap shot to make a comment like that without explaining why.

Because he's a self title web 'guru' who entirely self promoted with not much
actuall back up.

His failure to understand the web led the company he was CEO of to go
bankrupt.

Is that enough?


> I may not agree with everything Gerry McGovern writes, or his opinions, or
> whatever. Sometimes I think he's just plain wrong, or sometimes I draw
> entirely different conculsions from the same observations.

> Nonetheless,
> there was a definite need of a style guide for the web, oops, I mean Web.
> (Beyond that mess Wired offered a number of years ago. )

I'm not  quesitoning the need for a styleguide, merely gerry's mcgovern's
authority on anything to do with the web.


- Kevin