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Re: Translation control in HTML5

From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:08:37 +0200
To: "Chris Wilson" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Cc: "Chris Wendt" <Chris.Wendt@microsoft.com>
Message-ID: <op.ue6c0nbsidj3kv@hp-a0a83fcd39d2.belkin> 

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:12:04 +0200, Chris Wilson  
<Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com> wrote:

> In HTML 5, this could be done with a new attribute "translate", valid on  
> all elements. Values "yes" and "no". Default is "yes".

For all elements? I'm thinking that <code>, <abbr>, <kbd> and <cite>  
should potentially default to "no". But perhaps they are so misused in the  
wild that they have to be translated by default...

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
Received on Thursday, 31 July 2008 21:09:22 GMT

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