[projectaon] Re: More errata.
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:38:44 +0200
On Friday 29 August 2008, Simon Osborne wrote:
> Ingo Kloecker wrote:
> > On Friday 29 August 2008, Simon Osborne wrote:
> >> Jonathan Blake wrote:
> >>>>> 7) http://www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/sect58.htm
> >>>
> >>> If we had a reason, I don't remember it now, though the wording
> >>> was always awkward. Perhaps we removed them because they wouldn't
> >>> make sense in potential non-linked versions (e.g. plain text) or
> >>> versions that didn't have a numbered section page (e.g. PDF).
> >>
> >> Yes! That was it. I've added this to the Errata Page for Book 5 as
> >> a reminder of why we don't link to the Numbered Sections.
> >
> > I think it's a wrong decision to cripple the HTML version just
> > because such a link does not make sense/is not necessary for
> > versions in other formats.
>
> I can see both sides for this. I don't see it as *crippling* the HTML
> versions, though. Just maybe making them a little harder to use than
> if we'd included a link. Such a link does become irrelevant and
> possibly confusing in the single-page, PDF, software, card punch,
> Iphone, etc. versions of the books, though.
Sure, but technically it's a triviality to add such a link in the
multipage HTML version, but not in the other versions. After all,
the "Numbered Sections" page also exists exclusively in the multipage
HTML version.
Regards,
Ingo
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