Re: Proposed text for 3.6.3 Supporting Navigation

On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 9:44:44 PM, Etan wrote:


EW> Chris Lilley wrote to <mailto:www-tag@xxxxxx> on 10 August 2004 in 
EW> "Proposed text for 3.6.3 Supporting Navigation" 
EW> (<mid:1487462124.20040810190335@xxxxxx>):

>>   Nadia goes to http://maps.example.com, locates the museum, and
>>   mails the URI
>>   http://maps.example.com/oxaaca?lat=17.065;lon=-96.716;scale=6 to 
>> Dirk.

EW> The path segment "oxaaca" should be "oaxaca".

According to WebArch you are not licensed to conclude that ;-)

But yes, it would be better.

>>   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

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