- From: Simon Harper <simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:46:08 +0000
- To: RDWG <public-wai-rd@w3.org>
New issue 17: Referencing https://bitbucket.org/sharpic/rdwg-note/issue/17/referencing Simon Harper: I read through <http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/#References>. It is designed primarily for references to W3C specs, where the reference text is usually the spec shortname, e.g., [XML1]. The references listing has the document title first, rather than the authors. That makes sense for TR specs, but is not in synch with common research references. Because we want the RDWG Research Reports to appeal to researchers I strongly suggest that we request of Comm permission to use standard Harvard/parenthetical referencing[1] for these reports. I'm pretty sure that Comm would be fine with that. more: - I think it's fairly important to use the author name and date, as opposed to trying to create a useful shortname (for the brackets) from the publication title. Indeed, the metrics report draft has something more like that - listing the author names first, not titles. It currently uses a hybrid, though, for the shortnames, which I think just makes it harder to read and disconnected from typical research referencing. - I think it'd be fine to use brackets instead of parenthesis, *if* people felt that would be important to be a little more in synch with W3C style. - A more minor point, I would prefer if we styled these reference links to be less visually distracting than the default bright blue & underlined. See, e.g., how they really jump out in the middle paragraph of <http://www.w3.org/TR/accessibility-metrics-report/#validity>. Instead, we could style these something more like the definition links in WCAG20 (black text, light underline (I think solid would be less distracting than dotted), with highlight on hover/focus). Feel free to forward my comments to Simon &/or RDWG list &/or Comm &/or whomever Best, ~Shawn Responsible: sharpic -- This is an issue notification from bitbucket.org. You are receiving this either because you are the owner of the issue, or you are following the issue.
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