- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 19:39:39 -0700
- To: "Jon Bosak" <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Jon Bosak wrote: > If you don't standardize this, the behavior you're looking for is not > possible to achieve. The comparison with paintings and books is > exactly right. You can't classify them. But if you don't classify > them, you can't find them. It's a good thing the librarians ignored > the fact that you can't precisely classify books and went ahead and > precisely classified them anyway. Books and paintings are classified by arbitrary types in a general sense, and sometimes debatably so. In a precise sense they are classified by title and author. David Perrell
Received on Monday, 12 August 1996 22:40:24 UTC