Re: lang attribute in XHTML, mobileOK

On 21 Jan 2009, at 17:16, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote:

>
> Hi BPWG,
>
> As you may remember, in the statistics I ran a few months ago on where
> most sites checked with the W3C mobileOK checker failed, validation to
> XHTML Basic was the first cause of failure, and among those, the
> non-validity of the "lang" attribute in XHTML Basic was the first  
> cause
> of single-error validation problems [1].
>
> Indeed, while the lang attribute is only allowed in XHTML 1.0, its  
> usage
> is more or less required to annotate the language of content in any
> XHTML served as text/html [2].
>
> As the XHTML2 Working Group is about to officially relax the rules on
> serving XHTML as text/html, I alerted them about this problem with the
> lang attribute, and they say they might consider adding that attribute
> in other versions of XHTML through the W3C Edited Recommendation
> process:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2009Jan/0062.html
>
> Part of their assessment includes potential support from the MWBPWG,  
> and
> possibly some assistance as well - although it's not clear what kind  
> of
> assistance they would need at this point.
>
> Could we confirm officially next week that the BPWG would support  
> having
> the lang attribute added to the general XHTML Family DTDs, and thus
> making it easier to pass the validation test of mobileOK?

That's certainly one of the biggest issue I've had with the mobileOK  
checker as we (Opera) want to use the same pages for mobile as for  
desktop (for many reasons).
>
>
> Jo/Dan, could you add this to agenda for next week?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dom
>
> 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/2008Mar/0009.html
> 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040429.092928424
>
>

David Storey

Chief Web Opener,
Product Manager Opera Dragonfly,
Consumer Product Manager Opera Core,
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group member

Consumer Product Management & Developer Relations
Opera Software ASA
Oslo, Norway

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Received on Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:53:34 UTC