Re: [ESW Wiki] Update of "geoQuickTips" by RichardIshida

Hi,

These quick tips need links to justifications and explanations. As written
some of them seem inappropriate.

a) "Escapes: Only use escapes for characters in exceptional circumstances;
use numeric character references rather than character entities if possible"

There are many good reasons for using escapes, such as clarifying visual
ambiguity. I wouldn't think these reasons are "exceptional circumstances".

Why are numeric references prefered? They are less recgonizable and
therefore less friendly. When I am reading someone else's source, I would
much rather see entities than references. And some authors and tools
generate decimal NCRs, which are of course useless to those of us entrenched
in unicode.

b) Navigation: On each page include clearly visible navigation to any
localized pages or sites...

Although I agree with having navigation on pages within a website, as a
quicktip this seems to be more emphatic that it should be. There are many
places where this would be inappropriate. I assume you are referring to
links to an equivalent localized page of the current page. If you just mean
navigating to the home page in another language, that is less problematic,
but perhaps also not needed on every page.

c) On encodings you seem to be suggesting declaring the encoding in both the
page and the http protocol. Is that the case?

d) For #10 validate. It should link to the validation pages. The
recommendation to refer to the other site materials should be separate.

More when I have more time.
tex

Received on Friday, 25 November 2005 04:26:44 UTC