• From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:02:39 +1000

Standards and conventions are both methods for stifling the imaginative 
impulse on a micro level, in order to help imagination at the macro level.

A standard is essentially a formalized agreement. The meter is a standard.

A convention is gossip and tradecraft. The rule of thumb is a convention.

The foot is both a standard and a convention.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

• References:
  • Re: Convention versus standard
    • From: Micah Dubinko <Micah.Dubinko@m...>