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by edent 2068 days ago
After many years of HTML development, I still spell `colour` with a "U"!

I suspect it is easier if everything is a foreign language to you. But it's really easy to trip up between eb_GB and en_US because of their similarities.
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tobr 2068 days ago
So are you arguing that CSS should also be localized? (In my opinion that would clearly be a terrible idea, and most of the reasons why apply to Gmail as well)
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edent 2068 days ago
I mean, it would be lovely if HTML (invented by a British English speaker) used en_GB throughout. I think it's only "dialogue" which is misspelled in HTML5. Although the obsolete "centre" element is also wrong ;-)

You might enjoy this article on if PHP were British. https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

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rswail 2068 days ago
Well I much prefer as an Australian to develop programs, not programmes. My analog to digital converters work just as well without vaguely French "ue" extensions.

Single items of information are still data, not datum.

Among many things in HTTP/HTML/etc that bug me is "referer".

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tobr 2068 days ago
> "referer"

At least that’s equally wrong for everyone.

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tomjakubowski 2068 days ago
the webster in me thinks that's how the word ought to be spelled, maybe web developers will be the vanguard.

what's unfortunate is that http is self-consciously inconsistent about the spelling: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

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