Re: A question about the name of Web Intents

It's a singular noun phrase.  It is indeed the name of a technology.  The
analogy is a collection of items: the collection itself is singular.

The places you mentioned are errors and should be fixed.

Thanks,
James

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, cheng zheng <czheng4mailinglist@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not a native English speaker so this question confuses me for a long
> time.
>
> Is "Web Intents" is singular noun phrase or plural?
>
> I used to think it is just a name of the proposed tech, but a lot of my
> friends ask me this question.
>
> I checked the latest spec and in the introduction section. It writes
>
> Web Intents *enable* rich integration ...
> and
> Web Intents *facilitate* this interchange
>
> Are they just typos?
>
> but it also writes
> Web Intents *provides* a declarative
>
> In wiki and webintents.org it seems Web Intents is a name or symbol that
> makes sense, so I use it in the singular form in my writings.
>
> Do we have to settle it down offically?
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheng
>
>
>