Re: Translation control in HTML5

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Jirka Kosek wrote:
>>> Very good point.  lang="only de" would also work here while even being
>> This would completely break syntax of lang attribute values which should 
>> be following BCP 47 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt)
> 
> We define lang, we can easily define it as being something akin to:
> 
>    [only] <bcp-47-code>

And what is point in doing it differently from dozens of other markup 
languages?

Moreover, having separate lang and translate attributes will be much 
more friendly to CSS selectors.


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