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Re:HTML Ruby Markup Extensions Working Draft Published by emehex on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @09:47PM (#40304495)
Well this is tremendously confusing. I 100% thought this was going to be 'ERB' related...
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Re:HTML Ruby Markup Extensions Working Draft Published by tauchunfall on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:16PM (#40304988)
Yeah, but it's probably unavoidable, the term "ruby" used in British typography is 200 years old [1].

*Update:* Oh and it's interesting, "rubi" was used but the W3C recommendation from 2001 made "ruby" more common as spelling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate_(typography)

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