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Sustainable Web Design Community Group
I don't see any assigned meaning for the "low", "medium", and "high" ratings, and no explanation for why violating each guideline has the claimed impact. Why should readers believe these...
**Issue:** Our specification uses a lot of technical terminology specific to sustainability and technology. As such it can be daunting to those who do not come from either / or...
It's hard to review the document if it makes the same point in many places. For example, * https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#minify-your-html-css-and-javascript, https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#use-code-splitting-within-projects, https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#avoid-code-duplication, https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#use-html-elements-correctly, https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#compress-your-files, and maybe others are about reducing the...
For example, ["List the negative external variables and identify where your product's sustainable impact can be diminished"](https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#success-criterion-external-variables-machine-testable) can't either succeed or fail for a website, so it can't be a...
**Issue:** The potential for the misappropriation of our work (and its supplements) will increase as our work becomes more recognised and utilized. This is already a significant issue in the...
https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#consider-sustainability-in-early-ideation recommends using paper over electronic media, but of course creating and transporting a piece of paper does cost energy, water, trees, etc., which need to be weighed against the...
There is an assumption in the guidelines that saved time converts into emissions savings. In one example of many, https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#assess-and-research-visitor-needs says: > which will help reduce emissions as developers will...
**Issue:** Websites can be accessible to a context and a person or not. This doesn’t apply to emissions as you can’t not emit. The WSGs currently don't provide the binary...
**Issue:** There has been a certain level of friction around the use of the term ESG (Environmental / Social / Governance) as a defining tenant within the WSGs due to...