On 10/27/05, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote: > On 10/26/05 3:40 PM, "Kevin Marks" <kmarks at technorati.com> wrote: >> > PICS is the prior art here - not sure if it ever got anywhere, but > > researching why would be good. > > > > http://www.w3.org/PICS/ > > > > I remember when we were working on QuickTime 4, we looked at adding > > these kinds of ratings to movies, but pulled it late on because the > > issue of how to handle unrated stuff was too messy. >> BTW, PICS has been a miserable failure on the web. >> Totally overdesigned, overengineered, overlyextensible. >> Lots of anti-patterns there if anyone wants to do a case study. I know you're bound to call this all the same bad words, but PICS got updated: http://www.w3.org/2004/12/q/doc/content-labels-schema.htm -- http://dannyayers.com