Re: [Comment on ITS WD] Too many places to look

Hello Richard, all

This is a reply on behalf of the i18n ITS working group. See also
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3509 for our discussion.

Thank you very much for your comments.

We have implemented some of the suggestions of this comment, move the section previously named 5.1 as an appendix, and re-worked the
section 6 to include more information. Please, see:
http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/itstagset.html#datacategory-description
http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/itstagset.html#its-markup-summary

Please let us know within 2 weeks if you are satisfied. If we don't hear from you, we will assume this issue as closed.

Regards,
-yves


The original comments are here:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3509
> Issue #40 of i18nCore comments
> http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-its/
>
> To get a clear picture of the data categories you need to flick 
> between section 5.1 (which i initially ignored because i thought
> it was just a 'summary'), 6.1, and the data category section, 
> plus various bits such as parts of 5.3. This is really hard work!
> Can't we at least merge 5.1 and 6.1 into the data category
> sections. (If we want to keep them as summaries we could make a 
> copy in the Appendices.)
>
> FS: I disagree with your proposal. Merging 5.1 and 6.1 into the 
> data category sections would make spec reading *very hard* for 
> people who are interested in the general concepts of ITS, and 
> who possibly only implement a single data category.
>
> I18n: We are happy to repeat the information currently in 
> summary form in 6.1, butwe would still like to see that information 
> copied into the data categories.
> We think we need to find a way to make life easy for 
> people interested in general concepts while not making it harder 
> for people who need to implement the data categories. And we 
> think that whether you want to implement one category or several, 
> you'd be better off not having information scattered around the 
> document.
>
> I strongly contend that section 5.1 should be merged into the 
> data categories -and that at the very least it should not be 
> entitled 'Summary' since it is not summarizing at all. A summary 
> draws information from elsewhere and condenses it. This section 
> is setting out an initial set of information, some of which is only 
> found here.
> Also in the scope of the selection is specified for the local case 
> in 6.3.2 but that for the global rules (only!) is specified in 6.1.
> This sort of inconsistency makes it worse.

Received on Monday, 11 September 2006 17:34:37 UTC