- From: David Walbert <dwalbert@learnnc.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 07:59:44 -0500
On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:21 AM, David H?s?ther wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Feb 8, 2007, at 08:37, David Latapie wrote: >> >> > I also agree with Nicholas Shank that single-letter element >> shall be >> > avoided. We have only 26 possibilities, no more. >> >> None of those 26 possibilities are doing anyone any good if we never >> dare to use them. > > Agreed. However, I think single-letter names should be used only for > common element types. "P" is a good example IMO, "M" probably less so. I would be less concerned that it's a single letter than that "m" and "em" are pronounced identically (in English, and in the other European languages I can think of offhand) -- which would be confusing if one were trying to explain them aloud, especially given how close they are semantically. _____ David Walbert LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill dwalbert at learnnc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20070208/ae0d9a70/attachment.htm>
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