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by jsnk
3919 days ago
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> average table, pencil, glass, fork, spoon, text-based book etc. is fairly standard (save for few ornamental details). Except that's the point of the OP's comment. These items actually do not have any explicitly declared standard like this design standard published by the government. Design became standardized through people landing on a good design, not through a government mandate. |
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I don't think that that's his point -- I see this as orthogonal to whether there is a standard or not.
The reason those don't have a standard is merely because they are so simple they don't need a full document to describe them.
And I don't see a clash between a "goverment mandate" and "design", since in this case the government mandate is exactly a design, that is, the work and output of a set of designers working for the government.
It's not like some random bureucrat that knows nothing about the web created the standard.