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"Metadata" is geeky

Open ianbjacobs opened this issue 7 years ago • 7 comments

Hi all,

Thank you for working to improve W3C specs. I have a small comment: "Specification Metadata" is geeky. What about something like "About this Specification" or even "Details" ?

Ian

ianbjacobs avatar Jan 22 '18 22:01 ianbjacobs

Or "Editing Details"? I don't think the ordinary reader (i.e. a random developer) will think about clicking on the "Metadata" label to find this kind of important information.

silviapfeiffer avatar Jan 23 '18 09:01 silviapfeiffer

I used to have "Specification Details" and a few folks proposed "Metadata". I liked "Specification Details". :)

plehegar avatar Jan 23 '18 13:01 plehegar

The details of the specification are in the prose, tho! ;) Maybe “Specification Data”?

fantasai avatar Jan 24 '18 00:01 fantasai

"Useful links"?

marcoscaceres avatar Jan 24 '18 00:01 marcoscaceres

Not all of them are links? :) Although most of them are.

fantasai avatar Jan 24 '18 00:01 fantasai

I like what @ianbjacobs proposed: “About this specification” (or better “About this document”).

tripu avatar Jan 26 '18 17:01 tripu

if we don't end up hiding the information (see #145), this would make this issue less problematic.

plehegar avatar Jan 30 '18 16:01 plehegar