- From: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:46:11 +0200
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: w3-html <www-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:34:32PM +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> David Dorward wrote:
>
> > The current syntax, which is supported by browsers, is:
[snip]
> This is a very, very poor example, because
Actually, it's a very GOOD example of currently standards-compliant
and supported syntax.
> a) it confuses sex with gender
As does English, if we are to be picky. If we are to be even more
so then the question arise whether there /is/ a difference. Not that
it is important for this discussion.
> f) it is usually unnecessary for the declared purpose of the form, and
> hence illegal at least in EU countries, by the directive on protection
> of personal data, to ask for information like a person's "gender"
> g) it does not apply the international standard on internal coding of
> information about a person's sex in data.
Somewhat off topic for the current debate.
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