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Bug 19088 - Many of the items in this section seem to be written in an angry tone of voice. Is this really appropriate for a technical specification?
Summary: Many of the items in this section seem to be written in an angry tone of voic...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-09-27 06:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-19 22:59 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-09-27 06:29:22 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/introduction.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#how-do-the-whatwg-and-w3c-specifications-differ?
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#how-do-the-whatwg-and-w3c-specifications-differ?

Comment:
Many of the items in this section seem to be written in an angry tone of
voice. Is this really appropriate for a technical specification?

Posted from: 210.209.136.101
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/536.26.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.1 Safari/536.26.14
Comment 1 Roger Gordon 2012-09-27 06:33:18 UTC 
Same author – sorry, I should have included the following comments with my bug report.

I suggest that all the emotional language be removed from the list. For instance, instead of using the word 'nonsensical' to refer to the spec, just use 'different'.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-19 22:59:21 UTC 
That would imply that the W3C version was sane. It's not. Really not.