- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:32:57 +0100
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- CC: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, murray@muzmo.com
Lachlan Hunt 2009-02-04 10.59: > Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> Lachlan Hunt at Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:52:06 +0100: >>> Murray Maloney wrote: >>> > I propose that the title of the document should revert to "A Web >>> > Developers' Guide to HTML 5" >>> >>> That title was too long, so I'd rather not. I may consider using HTML 5 >>> Guide, though not until we are at least sure we have a common >>> understanding of the two types of documents. >> >> According to Wikipedia[1] a reference is: >> >> "... a previously published written work within academic publishing >> which has been used as a source for theory or claims referred to which >> are used in the text." > > That's an entirely different type of reference. I'm using it in the > language reference sense. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_reference That Wikipedia article points to two such references "in the wild", nameley "Ada 2005 Language Reference **Manual**" and "Python Language Reference **Manual**". So, what that article talks about really isn't "Language References", but "Reference Manuals". Also see "Annotated Reference Manual", which links to the same article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotated_Reference_Manual Of course, if you had said "reference manual", then it would have been much clearer what kind of reference you are aiming at. May I suggest "The HTML 5 author's reference manual"? -- leif halvard silli
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