Re: Translation control in HTML5

Lachlan Hunt 2008-08-01 13.35:

> 
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>>> Moreover, having separate lang and translate attributes will be much 
>>> more friendly to CSS selectors.
>>
>> That's certainly an important advantage of keeping these in separate 
>> attributes, yes. We have to balance all the various pros and cons in 
>> coming up with a solution (assuming we want to address this use case).
> 
> What use cases are there for needing to style an element differently 
> based on whether or not it can be translated?  Is it a problem we should 
> give much weight while evaluating possible solutions?


If you are the translator, and you are using a WYSIWYG edtor, you 
would like to style/highlight them differently. Or, if you are 
specially interested reader, you perhaps want to find out what is 
considered terminology etc.
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Sunday, 3 August 2008 17:09:14 UTC