- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 22:05:48 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2013-08-02 2:43, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > > > > > Are you saying that for HTML contenteditable-based editors that want > > > to support drag-and-drop editing, they need to be able to annotate > > > the outgoing HTML fragment with the effective language so that when > > > it's embedded somewhere, the right fonts get used? > > > > Yes, but not just for drag and drop. > > This would mean that the editor would have to guess the language from > the text or ask the user to specify it. Well presumably just getting the language out of the document would be a good first step. > This is not as unrealistic as it may first seem. Microsoft Word does > such things [...] Sure, there's plenty of examples of language identification. > But regarding the effect of language markup on fonts, the effect is > limited to situations where the font is not specified in a style sheet. Yes. That's a case we should probably make sure we handle. > So it could be added, well, just because there is no good reason not to. There's always reasons not to add something: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#Where.27s_the_harm_in_adding.E2.80.94 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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