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- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:37:09 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9422
Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |WONTFIX
--- Comment #7 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2010-04-14 06:41:04 ---
> I must make you aware that the empty string is not an error in
> HTML5. At least not as I and Validator.nu reads the specification.
The spec says "the content attribute must have a value consisting of a valid
BCP 47 language tag" and the empty string (or indeed a string of spaces) is not
a valid language tag according to BCP 47.
> > useful
> > only for a very dubious workaround of a bug with the lang="" processing in
> > legacy UAs.
>
> Just change your algorithm so that it only looks at the last META, and I can
> cut it down to only 2 lines. Which means that there would only be one "dubious"
> line.
The whole use of Content-Language as any kind of hack to work around two bugs
(the lack of support for lang="" and the misinterpretation of HTTP's
Content-Language header) is dubious. Making it two lines instead of three makes
no improvement.
> Please also note that being able to cancel the HTTP header is useful in any
> user agent that is able to read the HTTP headers. (Currently also coves IE.)
You can "cancel" this misuse of the HTTP header using the lang="" attribute.
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
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