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== Language ==
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American English.
 
== Dictionary ==
 
* bitrate
* cancelation
* canceled
* canceling
* colorspace
* keepalive (though HTTP Keep-Alive [sic] header)
* metadata
* referrer (though HTTP Referer [sic] header)
* whitespace (though CSS white-space [sic] property)
* newline (not line break)
 
== Grammar ==
 
* Use 's for possesives, even when it looks unnatural.
* Use the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma Oxford Comma].
* Avoid "one of" unless it's followed by a bulleted list. You can normally leave it out and just use "or". If you cannot leave it out, that might be a good indication you want to use a bulleted list for clarity.
 
== Casing ==
 
* web, unless at the start of a sentence
 
== Punctuation ==
 
* Spaces around — (em dash)
* Lowercase after colon (''The slot attribute is used to assign a slot to an element: an element with a slot attribute is assigned to the slot created by the slot element whose name attribute's value matches that slot attribute's value'')
 
== Words and phrases used as words ==
* When a word or term is not used functionally but is referred to as the word or term itself, either enclose it in quotation marks or in italics (using <code>&lt;i>…&lt;/i></code>).
 
== Tone ==
 
* Avoid using "simply" or suggesting that something is simple

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