Re: In re References

Masayasu Ishikawa wrote:
> Hi editors,

Hi Masayasu!

Thank you for your comments. I've integrated all of them in 
the repository and they will see the light very soon...

> 
> 1. Add suffix or not?
> 
> In http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Group/9712/PR-html40-971205/reference.html,
> it seems there are some inconsistencies.  For example,
> 
>    [CSS1]
>           "Cascading Style Sheets, level 1", H. W. Lie and B. Bos, 17
>           December 1996.
>           Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217.html
> 
> adds ".html" to its URI, while
> 
>    [DATETIME]
>           "Date and Time Formats", W3C Note, M. Wolf and C. Wicksteed, 15
>           September 1997.
>           Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
> 
> omits ".html".  http://www.w3.org/Project/Reports says:
> 
>     When quoting the URL of a report, always omit the ".html".
> 
> So I think we should omit ".html" from our technical reports.
> 
> 2. "character-sets", not "character-sets/"
> 
> While
> 
>    [MIMETYPES]
>           List of registered content types (MIME types). Download a list
>           of registered content types from
>           ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/.
> 
> is surely directory,
> 
>    [CHARSETS]
>           Registered charset values. Download a list of registered
>           charset values from
>           ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets/.
> 
> is NOT directory (don't add trailing `/'!).  Its URI should be:
> 
>           ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets
> 
> 3. Too much "href" in [WAIGUIDE]
> 
>    [WAIGUIDE]
>           Guidelines for designing accessible HTML documents are
>           available at
>           href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/#GUIDELINES. For
>           ~~~~~~
>           information about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI),
>           please consult http://www.w3.org/WAI/.
> 
> You don't have to add `href="' in the referenced URI itself :-)

Ian

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Received on Monday, 15 December 1997 08:53:03 UTC