Hi-
Arthur Barstow wrote:
On Jan 8, 2007, at 5:11 PM, ext Ian Hickson wrote:
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Doug Schepers wrote:
This sentence is grammatically incorrect and confusing: ...
"Either" applies only to 2 alternatives, not several. The reader is
left wondering how to group the "2" alternatives.
The American Heritage dictionary seems to disagree with you. ...
Seems like just removing "either" would be sufficient.
Yup, but I'm not going to push the issue.
Reading through the spec, I found the subject matter confusing enough,
and I'm actually pretty familiar with it. I didn't want users to have
to additionally struggle with the prose, so I started sending in
editorial observations (but was quickly overwhelmed :). Possibly Ian's
writing style just doesn't work for my brain. YMMV.
But I think that getting the technology defined (at which Ian's done a
good job), progressed along the rec track, and into browsers quickly is
more important than making it a nice read. The primer can inform
authors, and implementers are masochistic enough that they can take the
punishment. (To be fair, if I wrote it with my verbose writing style,
the spec would probably be twice as long and half again as confusing.)
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Regards-
-Doug
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