Réf. : Re: Why "color" from leslie.brown@evidian.com on 2009-02-19 (www-style@w3.org from February 2009)

From: <leslie.brown@evidian.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:28:02 +0100
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <OF16080C61.442A2021-ONC1257562.007FD54F@evcl.evidian.com>

> On the other hand, localizing your tokens automatically cuts you off
> from the vast majority of code in the wild.

...too late now, but if the W3C had followed the example of the 
botanists and zoologists we could have had Latin-based tokens.
Advantage - they're foreign for everybody so nobody can complain.

(But I'm not sure that the people who write the parsers would
have appreciated Roman numerals...)

LB

Received on Thursday, 19 February 2009 23:28:47 UTC