[whatwg] Editorial: British or American spelling

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Tue May 13 02:31:08 PDT 2008


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>
> Is the Web Apps 1.0 spec adhering to British or American spelling? I 
> notice several occurrences of "labelled" which my dictionaries flag 
> (should be labeled) but I think "labelled" is correct British spelling.

Fixed that particular spelling.

Theoretically the spec is US English now, but in practice it's a mixture, 
and in some cases I intentionally prefer the British spelling.

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