"Latest version" vs "This version" links

Hi all,

I talked to some people in the W3C communications team. The general 
feedback is to use "this version links" for several reasons:

- ids in different versions are not necessarily stable
- content changes in different versions, and a link might not be 
appropriate anymore
- content might disappear

It seems there is also no difference whether the citing document is 
normative or not.

As a proposal to *also* include "latest version" links, I heard s.t. like:
"section x [1] of spec [2] [3]

[1] this v link
[2] this v. link
[3] link to bibliography, which contains both "this v." and "latest v." 
information.

Also, it was proposed to have a paragraph in the "how to read this 
document" section, explaining our policy regarding links within the 
prose text to other specs.

Felix

Received on Wednesday, 14 November 2007 06:53:21 UTC