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authorOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2014-05-28 16:11:01 -0400
committerOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2014-05-28 16:11:01 -0400
commitb0c376d2a7ded722cd49f88e515c53632ec75730 (patch)
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parent693eec80b65299ff679a458bb7039d656ece550f (diff)
Typographic fixes around double quotes.
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@@ -7,21 +7,21 @@ When I wrote [Nobody Cares About Your
Build](http://codex.grimoire.ca/2008/09/24/nobody-cares-about-your-build/), I
set up a dedicated publishing platform - Wordpress, as it happens - to host
it, and as part of that process I put some real thought into the choice of
-"permalink" schemes to use. I opted to use a "dated" scheme, baking the
+“permalink” schemes to use. I opted to use a “dated” scheme, baking the
publication date of each article into its name - into its URL - for all
eternity. I'm a big believer in the idea that a URL should be a long-term name
for the appropriate bit of data or content, and every part of a dated scheme
-"made sense" at the time.
+“made sense” at the time.
This turned out to be a mistake.
The web is not, much, like print media. Something published may be amended;
you don't even have to publish errata or a correction, since you can correct
-the original mistake "seamlessly". This has its good and its
+the original mistake “seamlessly.” This has its good and its
[bad](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_hole) parts, but with judicious use
and [a public history](https://github.com/ojacobson/grimoiredotca), amendment
is more of a win than a loss. However, this plays havoc with the idea of a
-"publication" date, even for data that takes the form of an article: is the
+“publication” date, even for data that takes the form of an article: is the
publication date the date it was first made public, the date of its most
recent edit, or some other date?
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ willing to commit to. Had I left the date out of the URLs, I'd feel more free
to judiciously amend articles in place and include, in the content, a short
amendment summary.
-The W3C's informal suggestions on the subject state that "After the creation
+The W3C's informal suggestions on the subject state that “After the creation
date, putting any information in the name is asking for trouble one way or
-another." I'm starting to believe that this doesn't go far enough: _every_
+another.” I'm starting to believe that this doesn't go far enough: _every_
part of a URL must have some semantic justification for being there, dates
included:
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ included:
render stable, the meaningless blob renders the name immemorable.
2. *Each part must be stable*. This is where I screwed up worst: I did not
- anticipate that the "date" of an article could be a fluid thing. It's
+ anticipate that the “date” of an article could be a fluid thing. It's
tempting to privilege the first date, and it's not an unreasonable
solution, but it didn't fit how I wanted to address the contents of
articles.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ for resources that are, themselves, references to other URLs. HTTP is a good
example, providing a fairly rich set of responses that all, fundamentally,
tell a client to check a second URL for the content relevent to a given URL.
In protocols like this, you can easily replace the content of a URL with a
-reference to its new, "better" URL rather than abandoning it entirely.
+reference to its new, “better” URL rather than abandoning it entirely.
Names can evolve organically as the humans that issue them grow a better
understanding of the problem, and don't always have to be locked in stone from