- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:36:17 +0000
- To: Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>
- CC: Philip TAYLOR <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, www-style@w3.org
Adam Twardoch wrote: > Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> But is there any deep reason (as opposed to >> superficial) why "colour" could not be introduced >> as a synonym ? > > Probably not. On the same course, let's introduce "kolor", "Farbe", > "цвет" and "couleur" as synonyms, too. The suggestion is an interesting one. It seems to me that there are at least two ways in which we might make CSS (and HTML) less Americo-centric : 1) Increase the size of the parser by several orders of magnitude, and hard-wire in a table of equivalences for each of the world's written languages. Clearly this is a non-starter. 2) Allow an optional LINK/REL record in both HTML and CSS which specifies the URL of a language file containing a sequence of ordered pairs; each ordered pair contains the canonical name (in <Am.E> )and the equivalent name in the user's preferred language. If this idea were to be seriously considered, one could envisage that the W3C would create and host a number of such language files, one for each of the major languages in use on the web today. Philip TAYLOR
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