This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 9399 - "The contact information for a node node is a collection .." : SUdden appearance of the term "node" here is confusing and not explained. Also here a shift in tone where the writing here is more dense and a bit off-putting.
Summary: "The contact information for a node node is a collection .." : SUdden appeara...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-04-03 21:33 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:49 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description contributor 2010-04-03 21:33:16 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-address-element

Comment:
"The contact information for a node node is a collection .." : SUdden
appearance of the term "node" here is confusing and not explained. Also here a
shift in tone where the writing here is more dense and a bit off-putting.

Posted from: 70.36.186.174
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-04-12 23:29:40 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: I don't understand. The term "node" appears dozens of times before this point in the spec.

I agree that the tone here can be off-putting, but I don't know what to do about it... how else should these conformance requirements be expressed? Note that the bit you quote is hidden in the author version of the spec (the section ends just before the bit you quote).