Re: comment on 1 August 2008 draft of Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0 ( LC-2018)

 Dear C. M. Sperberg-McQueen ,

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has reviewed the comments you
sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the Content Transformation
Guidelines 1.0 published on 1 Aug 2008. Thank you for having taken the time
to review the document and to send us comments!

The Working Group's response to your comment is included below, and has
been implemented in the new version of the document available at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-ct-guidelines-20091006/.

Please review it carefully and let us know by email at
public-bpwg-comments@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 6 November
2009. In case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If such a
consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the opportunity to raise a
formal objection which will then be reviewed by the Director during the
transition of this document to the next stage in the W3C Recommendation
Track.

Thanks,

For the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group,
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
François Daoust
W3C Staff Contacts

 1. http://www.w3.org/mid/9B0282FD-966E-420B-900F-ADECB69771B6@acm.org
 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-ct-guidelines-20080801/


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Your comment on Content Transformation Guidelines 1.0:
> Would it perhaps be better to give this specification a more
> informative
> title, or at least some sort of informative subtitle?
> 
> The phrase "Content Transformation" sounds to an uninitiated reader
> as if it could apply to anything from the use of the data manipulation
> language (e.g. SQL) in a database management system, to the use of
> XSLT, or the SAX or DOM interfaces, to transform XML documents, to
> the use of dynamic HTML techniques to transform data in the browser.
> 
> Perhaps "Mobile Web Content Transformation"?  Or "Content
> Transformation
> for Mobile Presentation"?  Surely there are ways of making it easier
> for potential readers to see whether the document is relevant to their
> concerns or not.
> 
> This isn't the first W3C spec to have such a generic title; the  
> experience
> of the XML Schema specification, however, leads me to commend to you
> urgently the wisdom of have a more specific, more informative, less
> generic title for your document.
> 
> --Michael Sperberg-McQueen
>    W3C XML Activity


Working Group Resolution (LC-2018):
We agree and have changed the title of the document to "Guidelines for Web
Content Transformation Proxies"

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Received on Tuesday, 6 October 2009 15:34:29 UTC