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[WWW-HTML Mailing List Archive Home] [Messages By Thread] [Messages By Date] Re: [Structure Module] Renaming the <html> element to more semantic name
From: Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@tigerstaden.no>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:34:52 +0100 To: Ai / Hiro <i@orz.cc>, Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>, XHTML-Liste <www-html@w3.org> Message-id: <op.s0ticesxstoogi@quark.hv1alan> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:45:04 +0100, Ai / Hiro <i@orz.cc> wrote: > The WG has worked on the spec using English words for the vocabulary, > and the topic here is which word is more accurate as the element name, > "document" or "html" in *English*. This comparison is equivalent to of > <???> ("document" in Japanese) with <??????????????????????> > ("HyperText Markup Language" in Japanese), but not of <document> with > <d67xgh>. As long as an element name is human-readable, > any-develop-community-lookupable, and should be more descriptive, the > name itself--not only the definition attached to it--should be more > semantic even in the one particular natural language. +1. Can't say it much clearer than this, really. -- Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- http://virtuelvis.com/quark/ «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»Received on Friday, 25 November 2005 22:34:13 GMT |
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