Koji Ishii, Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:16:47 -0400: > IE falls back to Tools/Options setting if no language is specified in > HTML, meta, nor in HTTP, of which initial value is set by system > language. Is it included to "@lang or its equivalent"? Have you checked that Internet Explorer 9 and/or 10 do behave like that? You see, HTML4 *did* permit that above behavior - namely, to fallback to the language of the locale - e.g. the OS or the user agent. However, HTML5 does not permit this. HTML5 permits to fallback to the default *encoding* of the locale. But it does not permit to fall back to the *language* of the locale. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/elements.html#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes When it comes to meta and HTTP, then this is known in HTML5 as the pragrama-set default language. http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/semantics.html#pragma-set-default-language The pragma-set default language is included in HTML5's language determination algorithm and steps in if a @lang or @xml:lang is not available. -- leif halvard SilliReceived on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 12:00:15 GMT
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