Re: [CDR Framework] i18n comment: Language identification for child documents

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, L. David Baron wrote:
> 
> If the CDF working group were to accept your comment, that means that if 
> I were to write the following XHTML:
> 
>   <html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
>   ...
>   <p>Page with English text...</p>
>   ...
>   <iframe src="http://www.lemonde.fr/" />
>   ...
>   </html>
> 
> I would be giving authoritative information that http://www.lemonde.fr/
> is in US English.

More than that -- it would mean that when the user navigated, in the 
IFRAME, from lemonde.fr to aljazeera.net, it would still be marked as 
being in US English, despite the fact that it quite clearly isn't English.

(Neither lemonde.fr not aljazeera.net give lang attributes.)

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Received on Thursday, 9 February 2006 23:27:00 UTC