- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:47:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > We could, if people really want to continue the ridiculous practice of > > writing polyglot documents, allow lang="" in HTML documents, thus > > (You mean XHTML documents?) Yes. > > providing a conforming way to set the language that is allowed in both > > forms. But I'm not a big fan of that either, since we'd also have to > > add a requirement that it match xml:lang="" if both were present. > > Doesn't seem like a huge burden for you and Henri. :-) I think this > would be a good idea too, FWIW. I've allowed xml:lang="" in text/html and lang="" XML, but required that xml:lang="" in HTML only be used if lang="" is also present, and required that if two of these attributes are specified (or if all three are specified, in text/html), they have the same value. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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