- From: Lee Kowalkowski <lee.kowalkowski@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:19:35 +0100
- To: "Nathan Youngman" <junkmail@nathany.com>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On 15/06/07, Nathan Youngman <junkmail@nathany.com> wrote: > One thing that I thought I'd suggest is <dialogue> if we are to have a tag > for a conversation. The word <dialog> makes me think of a dialog box, > something related to a <fieldset>. I realize they are the same word, but I > think <dialogue> is less confusing with its purpose. Interesting, I always thought "dialogue" was British and "dialog" American (like "catalog"). We just tend to use American spelling for computing don't we? I thought "dialogue" would be further confusion. Wikipedia says dialogue is preferred in a non-technical context, so perhaps you're right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(spelling). -- Lee
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