- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 20:03:28 +0100
- To: "'Patrick Benny'" <w3@chipple.org>, <www-i18n-comments@w3.org>
Patrick,
Many thanks for these comments. See inline below...
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Richard Ishida
W3C
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Benny [mailto:w3@chipple.org]
> Sent: 11 May 2004 04:26
> To: www-i18n-comments@w3.org
> Subject: [Moderator Action] Comments on Authoring Techniques
>
>
>
> Hi!,
>
> Just a few comments on Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML
> Internationalization: Specifying the language of content 1.0.
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20040509/
> Sorry if any of these have been mentioned already.
>
> 1) For HTML use the lang attribute only, for XHTML 1.0 served
> as text/html use the lang and xml:lang attributes, and for
> XHTML served as XML use the xml:lang attribute only. [1]
>
> Last paragraph, first word "If" is missing its "I".
Fixed. Thanks.
>
> 2) Use the lang and/or xml:lang attributes around text to
> indicate any changes in language. [2]
>
> The second example uses the value "zh-guoyu" for the lang
> element even though another section [3] says that "zh-Hans"
> and "zh-Hant" are preferred for Chinese since these specify
> clearly the script instead of the language.
> Is there a reason for using "zh-guoyu" instead or was this overlooked?
Hmm. Good catch. Changed to zh-Hans.
>
> 3) Consider using the hreflang attribute on the a element
> when pointing to a resource in another language, and using
> CSS to indicate the language. [4]
>
> I gave the example below a try and it worked in Mozilla 1.4
> and Netscape 7.
> I didn't test with Safari or IE5 Mac.
>
> CSS:
> a[langhref=ja]:after { content:" (Japanese)" }
> (X)HTML:
> <a href="http://www.google.co.jp/" langhref="ja">Google</a>
Thanks. Another possible approach is:
a[hreflang]:after { content: " [" attr(hreflang) "] "; }
This takes less typing, because it applies to any language. It also works
in Mozilla and Netscape, and Opera 7.2, on Windows (though not IE).
Cheers,
RI
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrick Benny
>
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20040509/#ri2
> 0040429.092928424
> [2]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20040509/#ri2
> 0030112.213804197
> [3]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20040509/#ri2
> 0040429.113217290
> [4]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20040509/#ri2
> 0030112.224458239
>
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