[Bug 12417] HTML5 is missing attribute for specifying translatability of content

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12417

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ian@hixie.ch
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #6 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-06-15 23:20:00 UTC ---
Using class="notranslate" isn't an abuse as far as I can tell.

This seems like a feature that would get only narrow use. Is it really worth
adding to the language?

It seems like the ideal solution would be a new language subtag, frankly.


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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: there's already a solution, a better solution might be to use a new
language subtag, and it's not clear a solution is actually needed.

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Received on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:20:02 UTC