- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:32:12 -0600
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
- CC: www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org, w3t-comm@w3.org
HTML, XML Schema editors, Please don't use the URI-in-your-face idiom <a href="http://...spec-addr">http://...spec-addr</a> in references sections of W3C tech reports. Please use: <a href="http://...spec-addr"><cite>spec-title</cite></a> instead. To see this in action, see the references section of "Web Architecture: Extensible Languages" http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-webarch-extlang-19980210#Related If the document has an institutionalized identifier (e.g. in the case of W3C tech reports, which bear their identifier on their title page) you may want to include it in the citation ala: <small><tt>http://...spec-addr</tt></small> But don't do that for just any old document available on the web... If you want to force hardcopies of your tech report made by broken tools to include the addresses of a document you're citing, but that document doesn't bear its address, or isn't published on the web by the original publisher, use the Available at: ... idiom; e.g. ISO 8601 ISO (International Organization for Standardization). Representations of dates and times, 1988-06-15. Available at: http://www.iso.ch/markete/8601.pdf Janet, Ian, and w3t-comm folks, please train editors to do this if you find time. Hmm... this was documented at/near http://www.w3.org/Guide/Reports#references at one time, but I don't see it there any more. See also: in-your-face URLs: please don't. Dan Connolly (Thu, Aug 12 1999) http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-wcag-editor/1999JulSep/0027.html -- Dan Connolly tel:+1-512-310-2971 http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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