- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:38:51 +0900
- To: Eric Johnson <eric@tibco.com>
- CC: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, "chairs@w3.org" <chairs@w3.org>, "spec-prod@w3.org" <spec-prod@w3.org>
On 2011/12/02 6:20, Eric Johnson wrote: > The ideal in usability would be to let people annotate the > specification, and then choose who they wish to share those annotations > with (authors, public, only themselves). For W3C sanity, the annotated > version wouldn't be at the official URL.... > > That, of course, would lead the way to collecting information about what > parts of the spec are hard to understand, so that a future update to the > spec could perhaps address that. > > Of course, that's a lot of work, and not straightforward at all, but > would definitely serve the function of the specification. Just for the record: Lots of that work has already been done. Check out Annotea (http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/). For various reasons, it never really started to catch on. Regards, Martin.
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