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I'm not sure whether to be heartened or concerned that the W3C is referencing the doge meme in its specifications... see Example 6.


Concerned. Memes are in-group signalling one notch above the crudest kind such as football chants, a few notches below the more sophisticated kind like quoting Shakespeare, but all ultimately with the potential to exclude and confuse - which is definitely the opposite of what a technical spec should be trying to do.


I don't see why would this exclude or confuse. It's essentially an in-joke, and shouldn't affect anyone reading the spec who is unaware of the meme.

I'm not a fan, but I don't think we should make it out to be more than it really is.




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