- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:41:11 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
On 23.04.2010 02:44, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> >> It seems like some of these examples are not approaches that we should >> be recommending to authors. In particular: >> >>> * showing not offering fallback at all >>> >>> * showing a useless comment typical on the Web, saying that the plugin is >>> not installed or is disabled, with no proposed alternative >>> >>> * showing an honest message equivalent to the useless comment mentioned >>> above (this is the one being objected to) >> >> What is the purpose of the above three examples? It seems like they >> would only be helpful as examples of what *not* to do. >> >> Are there other examples in the spec that illustrate a poor authoring >> practice? > > We're talking about plugins here. There are no good authoring practices, > only bad ones and worse ones. > ... Disagreed. Ian, of course you are entitled to your opinion with respect to plugins -- but only as long you separate it from your editorial work for this Working Group. So - if you disagree with Lachlan's proposal (as a *replacement* for the example that is currently in the spec) then by all means submit a counter proposal. Best regards, Julian
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