- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:44:06 -0500
- To: "Booth, David (HP Software - Boston)" <dbooth@hp.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
David Booth wrote: > Nice work, Thank you. > but I wonder if this "Good practice" note is really adding > much: > [[ > Good Practice: Web sites SHOULD use hyperlinks and URI metadata in a > manner that minimizes confusion for users, and SHOULD NOT misleadingly > apply common conventions for encoding type information into filenames > and URIs. > ]] > > Isn't it rather like saying Web sites SHOULD be designed well and SHOULD > NOT do malicious things? It seems like kind of generic advice. I agree. In the draft to be published shortly, you will find that the whole section has (again) been significantly reworked, and the good practice note you quote above has been removed. > David Booth, Ph.D. > HP Software > dbooth@hp.com > Phone: +1 617 629 8881 Thanks for taking the trouble to comment! Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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