I have two QCs to look over, one recreational and one work. The recreational is QC1 of "Learning Cocoa with Objective C, 2nd edition". This represents a lot of work on the part of James Duncan Davidson, and is (I believe) a near-complete rewrite of the 1st edition. I'm looking forward to getting my head around Objective C.
The work QC is "Essential Blogging". This is QC2, the second quality check. But I think we may need a third--there are still problems like a zillion URLs ending in a / that shouldn't. (e.g., http://www.foo.com/example.html/) Gnash.
A QC is a quality control check. After an author turns in their final draft, it's converted to a publishing format (XML or Frame) and copyedited and line-broken. The result is sent out to authors and editor for checking--this is QC1. Then it's page broken, indexed, and sent out for QC2. QC2 is only a week or so before it goes to the printer.
So now I'm going through PDFs searching for "http://" and pointing out buggered URLs. Lucky me!
--Nat
That's gotta be my #1 pet peeve of URLs anywhere.
Pet peeve
jdavidb on 2002-08-12T19:52:06
I second that.
:) I disagree
jjohn on 2002-08-12T20:19:40
http://www.petdance.com/index.html
If you know that the web server is going to server up index.html and that's the file you are interested in referencing, I can see no bothering other people with the filename. However, the copyeditors at ORA have no clue about web server configurations. For instance, I frequently have index.pl files in the DocumentIndex list. Sometimes I'll have both an index.html and an index.pl (one of them is probably out of date). I guess I'm happy enough with the explicit filenames as long as those names are accurate. If someone is just adding 'index.html' to a trailing slash, that's bad.
Re:I disagree
petdance on 2002-08-12T20:41:02
URLs should be as short as possible, especially printed ones in a book. Anything that can shorten the typing (and potential errors) of the reader is good.As to having index.html and index.pl in the same directory, that's the whole point of NOT specifying a file. Say you started with foo.com/dir/index.html, and now you realize you need some dynamic stuff. Now you have to point at foo.com/dir/index.pl. If you'd just started with foo.com/dir/, then the index.html to index.pl transformation could have happened behind the scenes with no one being the wiser.
