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the html5 spec has a lang declaration <html lang="en-US-x-Hixie"> I suggest that since the HTML5 spec is no longer edited by hixie it probably appropriate to change the lang attribute of the spec to <html lang="en-US"> or if you like <html lang="en-US-x-hober-ginger-erika-travis">
Since Hixie wrote most of it, I'm of the opinion that we should just keep it. But I'd rather not spend too much time on this :) Or we could make it en-US-x-by-committee!
<sigh>, can we not just leave personal marks out of official specifications? it's like a dog pissing on a lamppost (not meant in offense, only as a simile). there is a place for acknowledgements, if this isn't currently sufficient then it should be refactored in some way to give more credit to certain individuals based on contribution. perhaps a chronological list of editors would be beneficial as an information source?
(In reply to comment #2) > <sigh>, can we not just leave personal marks out of official specifications? > it's like a dog pissing on a lamppost (not meant in offense, only as a simile). > > there is a place for acknowledgements, if this isn't currently sufficient then > it should be refactored in some way to give more credit to certain individuals > based on contribution. perhaps a chronological list of editors would be > beneficial as an information source? +1 Do we have any evidence to suggest that adding this homage to Mr. Hickson provides any tangible benefit? That any user agent will actually do anything with this? I would like to see this reverted to: <html lang="en-US"> please.
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(In reply to comment #4) > EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are > satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If > you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please > reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML > Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest > title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue > yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html > > Status: Rejected > Change Description: No change. > Rationale: I concur with Robin. while i disagree, as noted in my original email the WG, its a minor point and not one I wish to argue further on.
(In reply to comment #5) > while i disagree, as noted in my original email the WG, its a minor point and > not one I wish to argue further on. yes, i agree. encase my initial comment was still misinterpreted, i like ian (and dogs) but i regard a public specification as not the place for personal tagging.
*** Bug 27799 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10661 ***
(In reply to John Foliot from comment #3) > Do we have any evidence to suggest that adding this homage to Mr. Hickson > provides any tangible benefit? It's not a homage. It's an actual language subtag that Ian Hixie has informally specified at http://ian.hixie.ch/bible/english I've been using en-US-x-Hixie on all of my websites ever since 2008, not as homage to Ian Hixie, but because I actually prefer his amendments to the English language. There is actual meaning behind the use of this subtag.