- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:32:50 -0500
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Sander, On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: >> 11. Support World Languages > > As I commented in the survey: I don't understand what " Features to > represent > a single web page in multiple languages are out of scope." means. > Aren't > @lang and @dir such features? > > Can someone help me understand? My reading of this sentence is that we are not trying to address the problem of multiple alternate content expressing the same meaning in different languages. The @lang and @dir attributes address the problem of including content from different languages in the same document. While that could also be combined with alternate/equivalent/ fallback mechanisms, that is not currently the common practice which is instead to separate those alternates into different documents with hyperlinks or HTTP content-negotiation handling the different content delivery. Perhaps some rewording could make that clearer. Or perhaps we shouldn't be using design principles to rule things out of scope. Take care, Rob
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