Your hypothetical author is unable to insert an embed element because embed is all English to him. Being able to use a Mandarin attribute name will not help him much because he cannot produce the element to use it with. Considering Arabic script and the like, the time is probably near when we will have to learn it anyway. But we still have some time left, so let's just use the opportunities. The day is full of troubles even without your fantasizing. Cheers, Chris
-----Original Message----- From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:40 AM To: Kristof Zelechovski; 'Simon Pieters'; 'Thomas Broyer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Allowed characters in attribute names (was: Re: Stepsfor finding one or two numbers in a string) On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:18:28 +0200, Kristof Zelechovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why should I want to use a localized attribute name for the embed > element? Because the only languages you speak are mandarin, cantonese and han, and you are using an IDE to develop your system that only requires you to deal with localised stuff for the rest of it. Actually, that isn't using a localised attribute name, just one that actually has a little bit of obvious semantics. Would it make sense to require english speakers to use arabic characters? While english is a very widely spoken language, most people still don't speak a latin language. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo espanol - je parle français - jeg larer norsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com
