- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:03:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > It seems that some authoring tools and authors use <meta http- > equiv='content-language' content='languagetag'> instead of <html > lang='languagetag'>. http://philip.html5.org/data/meta-http-equiv.txt > > Based on the usage pattern, I think authors mean to use <meta http- > equiv='content-language' content='languagetag'> in a way analogous to > <base href='uri'>. That is, as a declaration that belongs between HTTP > and the root element in the inheritance chain based on an obvious guess > about author intent. Moreover, with FrontPage, this isn't invisible > metadata, because a faulty meta content-language is visible to the > author as squiggly red spell checker lines. > > The spec should probably say something about this. Added Content-Language pragma. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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