- From: Phil Archer <phil@philarcher.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:32:13 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org
First of all, like Dave, I recognise the substantial amount of work that this document represents. An attempt to solve the ongoing and, as Sandro rightly says, boring topic is very welcome indeed. Thank you, Jonathan, for taking it on. Like Dave, I found the summary table at the end a little surprising in that it didn't reflect fully the preceding discussion. Maybe the first thing that needs to be agreed is the list of criteria on which any solution might be assessed? That alone could take a while of course. Being objective in any debate like this is hard and I can't really make any claim to be so. The last time I got involved with it I came down in favour of a new 2xx code [1] but that was because it was derived from a suggestion by the person who was then paying may wages (always a strong incentive to bias). Actually, I think that solution has some legs but I also find the rule-based solution attractive. Now why might that be? Ah yes, it uses things like HTTP Link and URI pattern-based rules. My incentive to bias there being that I've done a lot of work in this area [2] that I'd like to see leveraged in some way. So in order to eliminate my bias, and that of everyone else, we do need the criteria on which a judgement can be made to be firmly established and agreed. Incidentally, Jonathan, you wanted a citation for POWDER's describedby property. The definition is at http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-dr/#appD. That points to the relevant Spec's appendix which is where the definition is formalised. However, it's worth noting that there is an erratum [3] that concerns text within the body of the document (that brings the body text into line with the formal definition which is unchanged). Phil. [1] http://philarcher.org/diary/303/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-grouping/ [3] http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/powder-errata#describedby -- Phil Archer | UK Project Manager http://philarcher.org/ | i-sieve technologies +44 (0)7887 767755 | Sentiment Analysis Beyond Impressions @philarcher1 | http://i-sieve.com
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