- From: Craig A. Finseth <fin@finseth.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:29:15 -0600 (CST)
- To: martin_spamer@kingston-comms.co.uk
- Cc: www-tv@w3.org
I would like to propose an addition to the glossary, IPG: an Interactive programme guide. I also suggest that some differentiation between and EPG and IPG is established. In my mind and EPG is essentially passive and an IPG is definitely active. Can you explain this difference further? Perhaps an example of each? On the Program(me) side I also need to point out that in UK English (and most of the Commonwealth) we have slightly different usage of Programme/program, though both are typically regarded as synonyms in modern dictionaries. A "programme" is a TV broadcast programme or schedule of events and 'program' is a computer software program. Could we exploit this to aid differentiation? I don't know, I haven't even fully convinced my self about this but thought I'd throw it in the ring any way. With sympathies to the people who write and speak our shared language correctly on the other side of the Atlantic, I think that an attempt to draw this distinction would be more-or-less doomed to fail. Craig A. Finseth craig@finseth.com Firwood Consulting craig@firwood.net (coming) 1343 Lafond, St Paul MN 55104 +1 651 644 4027 USA http://www.finseth.com/~fin A ship is safe in a harbor, but that's not what a ship is for--Adm Grace Hopper
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