Re: handling fallback content for still images from bhopgood@brookes.ac.uk on 2007-07-20 (public-html@w3.org from July 2007)

From: <bhopgood@brookes.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:59:53 +0100 (BST)
To: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <58547.86.140.106.81.1184914793.squirrel@webmail.brookes.ac.uk>

>>> For compatibility. There may be other reasons too, but foremost we
>>> should be a good citizen in the XML community.

The problem is that a word like 'foremost' has multiple and different
meanings in English and slightly different meanings in American English so
standards documents need to avoid such words or you are bound to get
ambiguities.

These two sentences or nearly sentences have several ambiguities.

Bob

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