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When I see someone suing a company for not innovating fast enough and opening with sexist terminology[0] I just close the tab and move on. [0] - "Anyone runnin
by sarreph 10y ago
When I see someone suing a company for not innovating fast enough and opening with sexist terminology[0] I just close the tab and move on.
[0] - "Anyone running html5test (http://html5test.com/ http://html5test.com/) on his iPhone"
- lasfter 10y agoI think it may have more to do with the article being written by a native French speaker than sexism. One of my friends routinely says things like "a woman has rights to his body" when speaking in English because in French possessives agree with the object not the subject, and the French word for body, "corps", is masculine. In this case, since iPhone starts with a vowel, in French you'd say "son iPhone", so "his iPhone", perhaps. Alternatively, in French you also always tend to the masculine form in the general case, so maybe that's it? It just strikes me as extremely unlikely that anyone would think, consciously or otherwise, that women don't have iPhones.
- sarreph 10y agoYes, of course! Thank you for pointing this out. I guess I'm the ignorant one for not doing my research on the author/company before making such a loaded statement. On your point about it being "extremely unlikely that anyone would think, consciously or otherwise, that women don't have iPhones", I was more referring to the older (20th century) authoring style where masculine references were used as a default rather than generalising such as "their iPhone".
- ionciobanu 10y agoomg, get a life
- sigzero 10y agoI just did. 391/555. I ran it against FF 45 and got 429/555. Are we suing Mozilla now for not supporting the standard like we want them to? Obviously not.
- mayank10j 10y agoLawsuit is not just about not supporting web standards. It's also about preventing others from doing so. Even if gf 45 supports 48 more features it cannot do so in iOS