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Better: keeping putting "vegan" and "contains nuts" on the label like every manufacturer already is, wherever they want it to be, and however they want it to ap
by cxr 2y ago
Better: keeping putting "vegan" and "contains nuts" on the label like every manufacturer already is, wherever they want it to be, and however they want it to appear, but mark it up appropriately, and make the file for the label design accessible by URL. This is the Web that Tim Berners-Lee actually wanted (browser makers' and Modern Web devs' insistence that the Web is really about App Store-like SPAs that can run in your browser notwithstanding).
It's crazy that all the pieces have been there for decades but the idea that you should be able to talk about "the URL of this label (a document)" is nearly unfathomable for professionals who spend a huge chunk of their waking hours ostensibly building "the Web".
- cr125rider 2y agoBetter yet: don’t mark things with what they don’t contain, only things they do. Gluten free, is dumb, contains gluten is much better. What it doesn’t contain is nearly infinite, what it does or might contain is a much smaller list.
- Charlie_e 2y agoI don't think it's dumb, it makes sense to label something that would otherwise intuitively have gluten (like bread) with a gluten free label. It also lets someone who depends on it not containing gluten (or otherwise suffer potentially serious consequences) be confident that someone has checked over the whole manufacturing process to confirm it.