- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:56:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 08.04.2010 09:35, Ian Hickson wrote: > > ... > > Here are some specific concerns I had with the exact text you proposed: > > > > > The term resource is used to refer to what is sometimes called a > > > representation > > > > There are two ways to interpret this: as saying that the term > > "resource" sometimes is used in the manner that refers to > > representations, or as saying that the term "resource" is always used > > in that manner. Since not every occurrence of the word "resource" > > means "representation" in the HTML5 spec, I think it's important for > > readers unfamiliar with any of these terms to not confuse this > > sentence for a definition of "resource" but merely an indication that > > the word "representation" is not used. > > ... > > If the term "resource" is used sometimes for "resource", and sometimes for > "representation" then Dan's proposed text should be modified to address this. The term "resource" is never used for "representation", but it is sometimes used for other purposes altogether, like a file that has no corresponding URL (and thus isn't a "representation" of a "resource" in the HTTP sense), or more generally, to refer to supplies of memory, bandwidth, storage space, and the like. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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