- From: Jens Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:09:03 +0200
Since currently reviewing and proof-reading the HTML 5 spec draft (again) I'm feeling free to send (rather non-technical) /suggestions/ and eventual typos to this list. This tiny first part refers to CVS revision 1.904 [1]. * Please drop "or the idea that the working group should even spend time discussing the concept of that section" as this is unnecessarily judgmental. * Change order of change history locations [2] (inverting the order seems to make sense to put more emphasis on CVS/SVN access than on Twitter). * Remove emphasis from "This" in "This specification aims to extend HTML so that it is also suitable in these contexts" [3] (and probably use "The HTML 5 specification" instead of "This") as this unnecessarily seems to judge XHTML 2. * Better write "HTML documents do not exist in a vacuum. This section ?" instead of "HTML documents do not exist in a vacuum ? this section ?" [4]. * In the same section [4] it might be fine to drop the first half of the Language Syntax description, "All of these features would be for naught if they couldn't be represented in a serialized form and sent to other people, and so ?". * Add a period behind "etc" (many occurrences), as I Merriam-Webster [5] and Wikipedia [6] seem to confirm ("Typically, the abbreviated versions should always be followed by a full stop"). * In the conformance section [7], "if errors have been so preserved" might be rephrased to "if errror have been preserved this way" or the like (not too sure about it, but the current phrase sounded strange to my non-native ears). * Please simplify the "Unless otherwise specified ?" exception notes [8] as there is a lot of redundancy. [1] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.904 [2] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.904#status [3] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.904#relationship0 [4] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.904#structure [5] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_cetera [7] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.904#conformance [8] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?rev=1.904#common -- Jens Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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