Re: [RIF] comments on BLD, April 10 version

>  Sandro, this is the same problem as with other Math symbols in IE. This
>  particular symbol is the box, but IE does not properly display inclusion,
>  membership, and other standard HTML symbols. I suspect that this may depend
>  on the  version of IE and on the OS.
>
>  What do we do about browsers that deviate from the standards?

Have you tried using html entity references?

See, e.g.,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

David


On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>
>
>  Stella,
>  Thank you for your thorough review!
>  I put in all the fixes that you required except for a couple, see below.
>
>
>         regards
>           --michael
>
>
>
>  > General:
>  > -------------
>  >     The snapshot version has problems with list numbering and lettering on
>  > some lists.
>  >     (missing items in the sequence).
>
>  Sandro, this seems to be a problem with the converter. It does not quite
>  understand HTML lists. I think the HTML is valid. At least, Wiki does not
>  have problems with it.
>
>
>  >      Any comments below on list items use the numbering in the wiki
>  > version.
>  >
>  >
>  > 1.0  Overview
>  > --------------------
>  >
>  >     3rd para:
>  >        Should this say which specification takes precedence in the
>  > unlikely event
>  >        that they differ? (The OWL semantics document gives two normative
>  > specifications
>  >        of a semantics and says which takes precedence if a conflict should
>  > ever arise)
>
>  I do not know. I think inconsistencies should be resolved by fixing the spec.
>  They arise not because one of the specs is more important, but because the
>  descriptions may have bugs.
>
>
>
>  > 2.1  Alphabet of RIF-BLD
>  > ------------------------------------
>  >     2nd to last para:
>  >          There's a "?" at the end of the sentence
>
>  Sandro, this is the same problem as with other Math symbols in IE. This
>  particular symbol is the box, but IE does not properly display inclusion,
>  membership, and other standard HTML symbols. I suspect that this may depend
>  on the  version of IE and on the OS.
>
>  What do we do about browsers that deviate from the standards?
>
>  >  2.2 Terms
>  >  ---------------
>
> >
>  >           item 8.
>  >                if t is a term -->
>  >                if t is a positional or named argument term
>
>  t can be any term, including frames and variables. External(frame) can be
>  useful, but External(variable) is probably not. The latter are excluded as
>  non-well-formed terms.
>
>
>

Received on Saturday, 12 April 2008 05:51:02 UTC