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HTML...In Britsh?
Dormouse:
The WWW was invented in Switzerland
-Tuxman (January 30, 2010, 05:39 PM)
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By an Englishman
Tuxman:
... for worldwide usage, not language-dependent. :)
Darwin:
... for worldwide usage, not language-dependent. :)
-Tuxman (January 31, 2010, 11:10 AM)
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Well, yes... However, reality dictates that we must all be able to communicate with one another. It's one thing to have individual webpages localized, quite another to try to have the code underlying available in different languages or even dialects!
Tuxman:
Code is not a language you communicate in, right?
f0dder:
I can't see why it would be impossible to have synonyms in HTML so that both color and colour are equivalent. That way people who learn English can use HTML without irritation and the Americans can carry on getting it wrong!-Carol Haynes (January 31, 2010, 09:10 AM)
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It would be horrible. The language definition would bloat up, there's the already-mentioned issues if multiple spelling variants are used in a single tag, et cetera.
OK, so back to the localized languages then. Good old Office 95 supported German macros. :Thmbsup:-Tuxman (January 31, 2010, 09:24 AM)
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You mean keyword in German? Ugly ugly ugly. What happens when you try to use one of those macros in a non-German locale? And what about a non-German trying to read the macro? Plain silly. Already seen the problems it causes when silly products like Borland C++ Builder output dates/etc in internationalized form, and fail to read those back in another locale... localizing an entire language is even worse.
Code is not a language you communicate in, right?-Tuxman (January 31, 2010, 11:16 AM)
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It sure is - identifiers and comments.
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