- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 20:12:51 +0200 (CEST)
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- cc: public-html@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
On 4 May, Jeff Schiller wrote:
>> Personally I'd rather have one well-written book in grammatically
>> correct English than a thousand and one I couldn't make heads or
>> tail of.
>
> Your sentence ends in a preposition. Yoink!
>
> Still think exacting, proper grammar makes communication easier? :)
I'd love for you to refer me to the place where I claimed to be able
to write 100% grammatically correct English?
Yes. I do still think that even if /I/ am not perfect.
Feel free to snip at my grammar instead of addressing the point.
> Anyway, I never said said option a) would include books that of which
> you couldn't make heads or tails. I only said they would include
> "some grammatical errors", clearly my mind can still understand what
> you're trying to say despite any grammatical errors.
Let's conclude that you are smarter than the average web-browser. My
compliments. Sadly UAs are dumb as bricks, and need a little bit of
help in order to present information to people who, surprisingly
perhaps, isn't accessing it quite the way imagined by the author.
In other words: elements with semantic interpretation is /essential/
for communication on the web because the web isn't as smart as people.
Usually.
One day we may have a browser who can distinguish<i>Lynx</i> from
<i>Lynx</i> and tell us that the latter is a browser's name written in
italics, and the former is the genus Lynx, but right now we don't
/have/ that capability.
Yoink.
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