HTML in Native Language

[blessedmangwana]

Desperately need to know whether its possible to customize HTML tags and still browsers being able process the document without a need to add a plugin.

Or extending XML such that XML custome tags be treated as HTML tags ?


Does it mean that when a french citizen decides to arthour a web page they should learn English first.

[Fang]

Would be possible in XML or with a custom DTD, but why? CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Apache, etc. etc. .... are all in English.

[Charles]

Does it mean that when a french citizen decides to arthour a web page they should learn English first.Happily, yes, especially French.

If I want to sit down to a wonderful meal or buy a decent bottle of wine - or pass the weekend in Montreal - then I need to know just a tiny bit of French. If you're going to author a web page then you are going to have to learn a few words of English. I know it makes you feel icky but you'll get used to it.

[Fang]

... or buy a decent bottle of wine ...New World wines are better and cheaper than French wines. ;)

[the tree]

Someday, when I get really bored, I'm going to write some DTDs that allow people to use HTML in French and Spanish. But until then, you'll have to put up with mess that is the English language, although really, it's just based English words that have been twisted to fit into the context, it's not really English.

[WebJoel]

New World wines are better and cheaper than French wines. ;) -I saw a report on CNN last week where (overpriced/underpurchased) French wines are being boiled down for their alcohol, to make anti-biotic fluids and auto fuel(!) 'New World wines' like from Australia, California and England I guess, are finally being accepted and not having those copyrighted weighty names associated with their regional French growing locale, are just simply less expensive. A number of major French wineries have conceded the 'wake-up call' and hope to address this...
Personally, I prefer "Little Penquin" I think it's called, -an Australian wine. :D A few weeks ago, my Polish mother-in-law gave use an unopened bottle of a Romanian wine that she said she 'changed her mind about'... we tried it. I don't mind it but my wife says that it is 'too sour' for her taste. It does have a slightly 'sour' taste to it, -I'd bet it would be good for oriental stir-fry though... (well, sufficiently off-topic I know... this should be in 'CoffeeLounge'...)

[the tree]

Agreed, this conversation is far too intelligent for the HTML board. Back to the inane exchange of jargon filled bull**** everybody!

blessedmangwana it seems to me that, even if you don't approve of it (which is understandable), you already know English. Are you asking on behalf of other French-speaking developers or someone in particular?

I agree with Charles, French wine is might fine. New Zealand are also good at making wine, but I haven't yet come across an American wine that I like. Either way, French is a language worth using whenever possible.

[felgall]

HTML is also a language worth using - especially when writing web pages.

[ray326]

Does it mean that when a french citizen decides to arthour a web page they should learn English first.No, but they should definitely learn HTML first.

[ToonMariner]

EVERYBODY should speak english - we wouldn't have to learn different languages then and the savages would have an opportunity to become educated, responsible and dignified citizens of planet earth....













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PS reason French wine is crap is due to lineage. The vinyards of Australia were predominantly grown from cuttings taken from Europe (mainly France) 200 years ago. France however had teh misfortune to be occupied by the Germans in WWII. The Germans virtually destroyed the vineyards of France and they have yet to recover from that abuse.

So in fairness the 'New Age' countries have vines that are invariably much older and better established than thsoe in France (NOT ALL but many!)

[felgall]

Who is going to teach the computers to speak English instead of the thousands of different languages they currently speak such as HTML, PHP, C, ADA, ForTran, Dibol, EDI, XML, CSS, Java?