[whatwg] Editorial, section 1.5
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Thu Aug 13 17:52:23 PDT 2009
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>
> I suggest simply deleting "It must be admitted that many aspects of HTML
> appear at first glance to be nonsensical and inconsistent." I would
> disagree with nonsensical, and in any case this sentence adds nothing to
> the text.
>
> However if this sentence is retained, at least deleted "It must be
> admitted that" in favor of simply "Many aspects of HTML appear at first
> glance to be nonsensical and inconsistent" or better yet "Many aspects
> of HTML appear at first glance to be inconsistent" or even "Many aspects
> of HTML are inconsistent."
>
> If any part of this sentence is retained, it should be combined with the
> following paragraph. In fact, the first 3 paragraphs could likely be
> combined.
Could you elaborate on your reasoning? At first blush, the current text
seems better than what you are suggesting, but maybe I am missing something.
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