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- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:41:03 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10152 --- Comment #14 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-03-09 17:41:01 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12) > If you use language attributes in the html element, the meta element has no > role to play in defining the default language of a polyglot document. Right. But we also have to consider that not every polyglot document will declare a language. And if a document without a language declaration nevertheless uses a http-equiv=content-language declaration, then what? > This doesn't disallow the use of the meta element (eg. when used as metadata), > but it makes irrelevant the mechanism associated with it for defining the > default language of the document. The condition which permits that one can use the meta element for meta purposes is that there is a lang/xml:lang declaration. COMPROMISE PROPOSAL: Perhaps we should, as you say, remove the note. And instead have another *section* which explains when and how to use <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="*"/>? The new note could - as HTML5 currently stands - say that <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="*"/> can be used, provided that the document has a language declaration in the HTML element. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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