- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:02:33 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Doug Schepers <doug.schepers@vectoreal.com>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
Ian, Doug, On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:11 PM, ext Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Doug Schepers wrote: >> >> This sentence is grammatically incorrect and confusing: "Bindings >> can be >> attached to elements using either cascading style sheets, the >> document >> object model, or by declaring, in XBL, that a particular element in a >> particular namespace is implemented by a particular binding." >> >> "Either" applies only to 2 alternatives, not several. The reader is >> left wondering how to group the "2" alternatives. > > The American Heritage dictionary seems to disagree with you. Indeed it > explicitly states that the "2" rule for either only applies when it is > used as a pronoun or adjective (here it is used as a conjunction, I > believe), and even further goes to say that even for pronouns and > adjectives the rule is not accepted by all writers. Seems like just removing "either" would be sufficient.
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