[i18n-html-tech] Some editorial comments

Hi,

  Some quick editorial notes on <http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech/>:

Sound authoritative!

  Phrases like "According to the HTML specification ..." leave some
  doubt whether the statement holds true in practise, the document
  should rather just tell the facts and if considered useful add a
  reference to the relevant section in the specification, like (see
  <a>Section Foo in the Bar specification</a>).

No ampersands!

  Headings like "Document structure & metadata" look odd, use "and"
  unless you really refer to the & character (like in XML character
  references).

Use meaningful anchors!

  To simplify linking the document anchors should be short, easy to
  memorize and access. Rather than

    http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech/#ri20030218.131051562

  It should be e.g.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech/#use-unicode

  It would be helpful if there was some link close to the guideline
  to figure out the anchor of the current section or copy and paste
  a link to it. For example each guideline could be a link to itself,
  like

    <a id='use-unicode' href='#use-unicode'>Choose UTF-8 or another
    Unicode encoding for all content.</a>

  The style sheet does not need to expose that it is a link, it is
  just a means for more experienced readers that likely want to point
  to the document in Usenet/Mail/Irc/etc. discussions.

regards.

Received on Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:03:03 UTC