At 01:42 +1200 4/11/12, Michael Adams wrote:
On Wednesday 11 April 2012 00:23, Christian Hanvey wrote:
[snip]
I could not find anything in the spec referring as to why we only
use the American spelling rather than International spelling. Cheers!
Completely OT for this list IIUC. The W3C has mailing lists too.
Yes, it really is, although I'd be interested to see a thread on
how to adapt LESS, Sass, or similar systems to handle non-American
spellings up front. Or even just a list of plugins for such systems,
if the plugins already exist. Either way, it could make use of CSS
more practical (as in simpler) for those not used to American
spellings of things like 'color', and who are willing to take on the
extra cognitive load of switching between their localized spelling
and all the other CSS they'll come across on the web. Otherwise the
thread should end.
The original authors of HTML were American. First in. first served.
Interestingly, the original authors of HTML and CSS actually
weren't American. Tim Berners-Lee is English and Robert Cailliau is
Belgian, whereas Håkon Lie is Norwegian and Bert Bos is Dutch, but
they were most likely used to working in American due to their fields
of study and the fact that most programming languages were (still
are) basically American in language. Not that there's anything there
that can help us with practical uses of CSS, but it's an interesting
bit of context, no?
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