- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:20:55 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Ernest Cline wrote: > > The only synonym of dialog that is anywhere near as general seems to be > <discourse/>. I dunno, that just sounds so formal. I agree that <dialog> isn't perfect and could be (and has been) confused with dialog boxes, but I'm not convinced it's not the best name for the job anyway. > The other possibility is <dialogue/> since the computing uses that cause > confusion seem to have standardized on the shorter spelling. Experience with language="" on <script> suggests that many authors have serious difficulties spelling words that contain the "gu" letter pair. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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