[Bug 26951] why do these examples of <html> lack the lang attribute?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26951

steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #1 from steve faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> ---
regardless of how many poeple do it, its best practice and useful for user
agents such as AT that use the lang attribute to load the correct pronunciation
dictionaries for a page. Thanks for calling this out, easily fixed.
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/fd501aa4b6167338bd994609e89d267fd2f1b422 

grep of data from 2013 indicates that lang use is widespread
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlVP5_A996c5dENJVkl4ZngxS0ZTZHVvbHdQYWQ2Zmc&usp=sharing

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Received on Thursday, 2 October 2014 09:37:45 UTC