- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:21:17 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Glynn Williams <glynn@wowdesignsolutions.com>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Glynn Williams wrote: > Hi Sorry to be so pedantic about something so little, especially as you're > trying to help, but you have a flag named wrong in your resources area: > > http://www.w3.org/Icons/Flags/english.tiff I understand your concern, but I wonder how it relates to the validator. I see no connection except in the sense that the validator documentation refers to the icon repository http://www.w3.org/Icons/ Actually _most_ of the flags there have URLs formed from _language_ names, like french.tiff (though this might construed as using the adjective French, to refer to the French flag). I bet this relates to some old and poor practice of using country flags to denote languages. The Last-Modified dates are from 1994 (except for finland.gif which is from 1993 and contains a very wrong picture of the flag of Finland). > Could you please rename the flag as united_kingdom.tiff please, pretty > please? I think the files need to be removed, not renamed, but I have no idea to whom one should complain about them. (There is no shortage of flag images on the Web, and I cannot imagine what purpose those generally poor icons could serve. If they are referred to on some W3C pages, then it's time to detect and fix this.) -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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