Scott,

Thanks for your comments.

So you are arguing for starting at 1, correct?

- Alan -

On 3/7/10 6:41 AM, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 21:05 -0600, Alan Johnston wrote:
>> Is there a requirement that the actual appearance *number* be rendered
>> to the user?
>>
>> Currently the draft says that the *order* must be rendered by the UI.
>>
>> If we expect this to be ever rendered to the user, then we should
>> probably start at 1 instead of 0 as the examples in the draft currently
>> show.
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> It seems to me that if we start at zero, then we force the user
> interface to do work to ensure that in any rendering non-programmers are
> accommodated.  In some cases (such as mapping to buttons, this is a
> non-issue, but if the user interface designer wants to use numbers as
> aid to the user, then having the numbers in the protocol saves work for
> the UI designer and makes it more likely that different UIs will
> correlate.
>  
> 
> 
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