Re: Adding language metadata on code elements

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Kevin Sweeney wrote:
>
> The current draft states:
> 
> “Although there is no formal way to indicate the language of computer 
> code being marked up, authors who wish to mark code 
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/text-level-semantics.html#the-code-element) 
> elements with the language used, e.g. so that syntax highlighting 
> scripts can use the right rules, may do so by adding a class prefixed 
> with "language-" to the element.”
> 
> I was wondering why this is the preferred way over a data attribute such 
> as "data-langauge"? Is this bug-worthy or is there already a discussion 
> in the archive that I overlooked?

data-language="" would be site-specific. The idea of using language-* is 
that it can be a convention shared amongst many sites.

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