- From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:16:34 +0100
- To: public-bpwg@w3.org, "Appelquist, Daniel" <Daniel.Appelquist@vodafone.com>, Jo Rabin <jrabin@mtld.mobi>
Hi BPWG, As you may remember, in the statistics I ran a few months ago on where most sites checked with the W3C mobileOK checker failed, validation to XHTML Basic was the first cause of failure, and among those, the non-validity of the "lang" attribute in XHTML Basic was the first cause of single-error validation problems [1]. Indeed, while the lang attribute is only allowed in XHTML 1.0, its usage is more or less required to annotate the language of content in any XHTML served as text/html [2]. As the XHTML2 Working Group is about to officially relax the rules on serving XHTML as text/html, I alerted them about this problem with the lang attribute, and they say they might consider adding that attribute in other versions of XHTML through the W3C Edited Recommendation process: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/2009Jan/0062.html Part of their assessment includes potential support from the MWBPWG, and possibly some assistance as well - although it's not clear what kind of assistance they would need at this point. Could we confirm officially next week that the BPWG would support having the lang attribute added to the general XHTML Family DTDs, and thus making it easier to pass the validation test of mobileOK? Jo/Dan, could you add this to agenda for next week? Thanks, Dom 1. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/2008Mar/0009.html 2. http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/#ri20040429.092928424
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