[whatwg] EDITORIAL - Suggested corrections

Kevin Benson kevin.m.benson at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 13:23:23 PDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Kevin Benson wrote:
>>
>> 4.10.4.1.17 Radio Button state
>>
>> "Either neither a nor b have a form owner, or they both have one and
>> it is the same for both."
>>
>> S//Either a and b both have no form owner//Either neither a nor b have
>> a form owner// < - - (rewrote "either neither")
>
> What's wrong with either neither?
>

I just hadn't ever seen and couldn't find another instance of such a
grammatical construction in technical documentation...anywhere. Is my
suggestion not _as_ clear (or clearer) ???

> Incidentally, the convention for substitution markers is usually:
>
>   s/old/new/
>
> ...as in:
>
>   s/teh/the/
>
> (From the sed or perl convention.)
>
> Cheers,
> --

Of course, thanks !
That is why I provided a "quasi" legend (to avoid confusion)

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