- From: Doug Schepers <doug.schepers@vectoreal.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:14:12 -0500
- To: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-appformats@w3.org
Hi- Arthur Barstow wrote: > > 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: ... >>> "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. ... > > Seems like just removing "either" would be sufficient. Yup, but I'm not going to push the issue. Reading through the spec, I found the subject matter confusing enough, and I'm actually pretty familiar with it. I didn't want users to have to additionally struggle with the prose, so I started sending in editorial observations (but was quickly overwhelmed :). Possibly Ian's writing style just doesn't work for my brain. YMMV. But I think that getting the technology defined (at which Ian's done a good job), progressed along the rec track, and into browsers quickly is more important than making it a nice read. The primer can inform authors, and implementers are masochistic enough that they can take the punishment. (To be fair, if I wrote it with my verbose writing style, the spec would probably be twice as long and half again as confusing.) -- Regards- -Doug Research and Standards Engineer 6th Sense Analytics www.6thsenseanalytics.com mobile: 919.824.5482
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