On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, 12:41:25 AM, Etan wrote: EW> Chris Lilley wrote to <mailto:www-tag@w3.org> on 10 August 2004 in "Re: EW> Proposed text for 3.6.3 Supporting Navigation" EW> (<mid:1408474571.20040810220756@w3.org>): >>>> Dirk goes to http://mymap.example.org, locates the museum, and >>>> mails >>>> the URI >>>> http://mymap.example.org/geo?sessionID=765345;userID=Dirk to >>>> Nadia. Dirk reads Nadia's email and is able to follow the link to >>>> the >>>> map. Nadia reads Dirk's email, follows the link, and receives an >>>> error >>>> message 'No such session/user'. She has start again from >>>> http://mymap.example.org and find the museum location once more. >> >> EW> From the W3C Manual of Style [MANUAL]: >> >> EW> First person pronouns ("I," "we") which are hard to translate >> should >> EW> not be used in the text of examples. See the email message >> "Personal >> EW> pronouns in specifications" [PRONOUNS]. Avoid "my" and "me" in >> examples >> EW> (e.g., use "userResource" and not "myResource"). >> >> Okay, s/She/Nadia EW> I was unclear. The problem is the domain label "mymap". Could the label EW> "travel" replace "mymap"? Not while retaining the same sense, no. The point is that the site "My*" is doing personalized stuff (like My.Yahoo.com, etc) and is doing it the wrong way. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture GroupReceived on Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:14:52 UTC
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