Re: Best Practices doc review

Thank you Phil.  I agree with those changes & appreciate you rolling up your sleeves and just getting it done before today's final GLD WG call.

- simplified English spelling to US-style throughout;

^^ This bit must have been hard for you mate, sorry! ;-) 

I'm putting in some final updates now myself.

Cheers,
Bernadette

On Dec 12, 2013, at 8:34 AM, Phil Archer <phila@w3.org> wrote:

> Ahead of today's meeting I've read through the document as it was at 11:00 GMT.
> 
> One thing that struck me as a native speaker was that the language needed a but of polish here and there (this is not a criticism!) and looking in more detail at some aspects there were one or two W3C-style things that needed fixing too. So rather than give Ghis, Boris and Bernadette a long list  I've made the changes directly.
> 
> Main changes:
> - all target="_blank" attributes removed from hyperlinks;
> - removed conformance boilerplate and made all references informative - this is a Note, not a Rec so nothing is normative;
> - all shortened URIs replaced by target URI;
> - simplified English spelling to US-style throughout;
> - replaced data set with dataset throughout (I have no strong view but a quick survey on Twitter today suggests that the preference is to spell it without a space);
> - generally tidied up a few awkward bits of sentence construction.
> 
> There are a few (I think 3) instances of <del>...</del>. These indicate my preference/view rather than a policy or English language norm - i.e. WG consensus is needed to make the changes (I can talk about them on the call later).
> 
> I do not claim that the doc is now error free, but the number of typos etc should be less than it was.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Phil.
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