Comments on: The ‘Issy-Neale Formula’ Explained Part 3 http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/18478 Digital Out of Home - Insight, Knowledge and Opinion Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:53:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Neale http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/18478/comment-page-1#comment-36829 Andrew Neale Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:08:03 +0000 http://www.dailydooh.com/?p=18478#comment-36829 Our aim was to create something that was both easily human-readable and machine-readable, and to keep it well structured, but also as simple as possible. If we were to drop the 1 in the 1H2T1H term, it would effectively be mixing the short and long definitions in the same row term. I agree that it would be easier to read and interpret from a human point of view, but it would make machine-readable parsing more difficult (although obviously not impossible), and in the interests of simple structure and conformity, we decided that it was best not to mix the two within an individual row term. Our aim was to create something that was both easily human-readable and machine-readable, and to keep it well structured, but also as simple as possible.

If we were to drop the 1 in the 1H2T1H term, it would effectively be mixing the short and long definitions in the same row term. I agree that it would be easier to read and interpret from a human point of view, but it would make machine-readable parsing more difficult (although obviously not impossible), and in the interests of simple structure and conformity, we decided that it was best not to mix the two within an individual row term.

]]> By: Bryan Crotaz http://www.dailydooh.com/archives/18478/comment-page-1#comment-36819 Bryan Crotaz Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:50 +0000 http://www.dailydooh.com/?p=18478#comment-36819 Lose the 1 in 1H2T1H - it's not adding anything. Then you can describe the row as H2TH for greater clarity. Lose the 1 in 1H2T1H – it’s not adding anything. Then you can describe the row as H2TH for greater clarity.

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