- From: Kim Hamilton Duffy <kim@learningmachine.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:58:56 +0000
- To: Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
- Cc: "W3C Credentials CG (Public List)" <public-credentials@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAB=TY84ZKr40V+6qUtf0bAywXVdwS0Tts51J5F1KvE=fZ12_Zw@mail.gmail.com>
Interesting; I actually didn't realize this. I'll add it as an issue -- not against the DID spec, but as a general "group productivity" sort of issue. On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 3:26 PM Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net> wrote: > On 2017-11-05 11:08 AM, Kim Hamilton Duffy wrote: > > Hi Steven, > > Just making sure I understand -- you want to see the title (e.g. > > "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.7") copied at the top of the body > > text? > > Yep. > > TL;dr: I think the page would do well to have a title anyway, and > people not accustomed to snooping in source code, who read the page in > a browser, will see the title displayed and its version number and be > able to search for it. > > > Longer version, in case you think I'm insane: > > I was attempting to figure out if I'd indeed fond the page with the > PR#22 changes or not, and the simplest way to do that was to use > search in the rendered page in Firefox for "0.7", which must have been > added in the changes -- I thought. But I got "not found". So I became > confused -- maybe this was an old page, not the new one. > > Then, looking more carefully at Manu's commit, I realized it was done > in the html head. So it wouldn't appear on the browser page, which > only shows the body. So I went back and searched the source code, and > found it. So probably it is the right page. > > But that required quite a bit of knowing about both GitHub and HTML code. > > I'm hoping that this overall document on DIDs [v0.7, and later ones] > can be easily found and read by people who only read text at the > browser level, not necessarily at the source code level. I think that > would be good for the ongoing process of keeping as many people in the > loop as possible. And it doesn't seem to big a change to ask for -- > just the title and version number to be included. > > Steven > > > . > > Thanks, > > Kim > > > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 10:58 AM Steven Rowat > > <steven_rowat@sunshine.net <mailto:steven_rowat@sunshine.net>> wrote: > > > > On 2017-11-05 9:22 AM, Kim Hamilton Duffy wrote: > > > In case you aren't signed up for github alerts, note that > > Manu's DID > > > PR #22 has been merged! > > > https://github.com/w3c-ccg/did-spec/pull/22 > > > > > > Thanks to everyone for letting us get this resolved so we can push > > > forward with the next iterations. > > > > Am I correct that the merged DID document, post PR-22, is found at: > > https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/ ? > > > > If so, I'd like to request that a title be put rendered onto this > > page, i.e. into the index.html <body>, that carries the version > > number, and not just in the page <head>. > > > > This will be helpful for persons not fluent in GitHub (like myself) > > being able to read the ongoing main branch description and make sure > > they're reading the right one. > > > > ie., add a copy of the page source title line content: > > <title>Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.7</title> > > > > into the <body> with a <p> tag, so at the top of the rendered page > > will appear: > > > > "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.7 > > > > "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier > > intended for verifiable digital identity that is "self-sovereign", > > i.e., fully > > under the control of an entity and not dependent on a > > centralized registry, identity provider, or certificate authority.... > > > > etc. > > > > > > Steven > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > Kim > > > -- > > > Kim Hamilton Duffy > > > CTO & Principal Architect Learning Machine > > > Co-chair W3C Credentials Community Group > > > 400 Main Street Building E19-732, Cambridge, MA 02139 > > > > > > kim@learningmachine.com <mailto:kim@learningmachine.com> > > <mailto:kim@learningmachine.com <mailto:kim@learningmachine.com>> | > > > kimhd@mit.edu <mailto:kimhd@mit.edu> <mailto:kimhd@mit.edu > > <mailto:kimhd@mit.edu>> > > > 425-652-0150 <(425)%20652-0150> <tel:(425)%20652-0150> | > LearningMachine.com > > > > > > > -- > > Kim Hamilton Duffy > > CTO & Principal Architect Learning Machine > > Co-chair W3C Credentials Community Group > > 400 Main Street Building E19-732, Cambridge, MA 02139 > > > > kim@learningmachine.com <mailto:kim@learningmachine.com> | > > kimhd@mit.edu <mailto:kimhd@mit.edu> > > 425-652-0150 <(425)%20652-0150> | LearningMachine.com > > > -- Kim Hamilton Duffy CTO & Principal Architect Learning Machine Co-chair W3C Credentials Community Group 400 Main Street Building E19-732, Cambridge, MA 02139 kim@learningmachine.com | kimhd@mit.edu 425-652-0150 | LearningMachine.com
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