Pros and cons of adding a en-GB-oxford language tag

[Martin Duerst]

At 08:38 03/05/30 +0000, John Clews wrote:
>For another thing, I dislike the fact that my browser currently sees
>language tags, or other tags, in HTML files, and puts up a box
>advising me to download something that I don't want to download, on
>too many occasions already, when what I already have loaded may be
>adequate.
>
>If en-gb-oxford was added, one implication might be that I had to do
>this on far more HTML files that my browser looked at, slowing down
>all my work when looking at the web. That would be far more annoying
>than seeing alternative spellings (which happens with a fairly small
>proportion of words).

What you describe sounds really strange. What browser, with what
setting, are you using? Can you describe exactly what happens,
with the actual texts? In particular the 'puts up a box' part?

Regards,   Martin.