On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:51:46 +0200, Křištof Želechovski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
In my example I had the author using an IDE that is localised already for
known elements. People really do this. The ones I am aware of actually use
japanese or arabic, and do it for convenience - although in principle they
can normally work with some kind of latin script, they are not very
familiar with english, and would be as happy to use "inbed" as "embed",
and happier with something that they recognise more instinctively. China,
in particular, is quite keen on localising everything. India seems more
inclined to do so, as well, as time goes on and they become a more
important player in technology.
The scenario does require that the language is extensible - this can be
done with XML, presumably including the XML version HTML 5, but not HTML 5
as currently proposed.
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.
Thanks for your polite and constructive reply.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: Charles McCathieNevile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:40 AM
To: Kristof Zelechovski; 'Simon Pieters'; 'Thomas Broyer';
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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
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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
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