- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:57:19 +0100
- To: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Philip TAYLOR wrote: >All of your points are well made (as were those of David Singer), >but I would want to comment on your last paragraph (above) : >it may be advantageous to non-native speakers of English to >[...] use English /at this time/, but unless we seriously discuss >(without resort to sarcasm) how this Anglo-centric bias can >be eliminated, all we are doing is continuing to perpetuate >what I regard as a highly undesirable state of affairs. The time to discuss allowing alternate names for properties is when CSS users have built and deployed successful tools that allow doing this locally, like a web server module that maps "fr-css" to "en-css", or source code editors that display "fr-css" but save to "en-css". We could then discuss whether to standardize some such mappings, or make features available that allow arbitrary user-defined mappings. If local communities can but do not solve a particular problem, there is usually insufficient reason for the broader community to "solve" it for them. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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