- From: Jens O. Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:06:12 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> Done in base 16, for example, you get 00A and 0A0 respectively. These are > quite different, and the latter is bigger. The spec’s “in a number system with a large base” part indeed caused the confusion by being easy to overlook, back in 2004, and obviously today. > I personally think that the "large base" thing is not worth the confusion it > engenders and the specificity should just be an ordered 4-tuple of natural > numbers, with the 4-tuples ordered in a dictionary ordering. That would be helpful. Personally I always used to think and explain specificity based on tuples (straight forward); yet if you observe how concatenation is typically explained, the base part seems to be the first part to drown pretty much everywhere (outside www-style@). Thanks Boris, Tantek. -- Jens O. Meiert http://meiert.com/en/
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