[tei-council] P5 releases: changes to boilerplate HTML code

[Rebecca Welzenbach]

I agree with Kevin and Gabby. For me, the problem is that the current
phrasing is missing a clear verb. "Switch", "go," "toggle," or
whatever action will take place when you click the button, is implied
rather than stated explicitly.

This makes it easy to incorrectly read other words in the phrase as
the verbs: "click here to compact" and "click here to format." I think
this is how one arrives at something like Kevin's interpretation
above.

Gabby's button solution seems the least ambiguous, and perhaps also
easiest to export to other languages, since you just need the two
labels, "XML view" and "Compact view." All syntactic messiness is
neatly avoided. But Kevin's suggestion seems perfectly clear to me as
well.

Becky

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Rahtz
<sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 27 Feb 2012, at 16:32, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
>
>
>> I'd be inclined to suggest two
>> tabs, one ("compact") obviously "selected", and the other a button
>> reading "XML" (and vice versa).
>
> that would be nice, I agree.  Do any of you have a webby person
> who could knock up the appropriate bit of HTML and jQuery which I could drop
> directly[1] in?  it will be a while before I have the time to concentrate on this for an hour
> (it probably needs less...)
>
>
>> (That no one has complained before is no indication that
>> it's not a problem. You know how much people prefer to keep quiet,
>> especially if doing otherwise might make them look ignorant.)
>
> but its also true that we shouldn't make changes just because
> two people ask for it.....
>
> [1] strangely, it doesn't solve the problem to be told "package XX does all this,
> we use it all the time".....
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