- From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:13:27 +1000
- To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Do you mean @xml:lang was used when @lang should have been? (in text/html) or that the value assigned to @xml:lang was not a valid language code (or both, or other). And is there any proposal about how to handle the situation? On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:19 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote: > > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/test/moz/analysis2.txt > > > 05:52 < Hixie> hsivonen: re the errors, target=_blank will have to > > be dealt > > with, "The internal character encoding declaration > > must be the > > first child of the "head" element." might be > > something we can > > change if no non-ASCII bytes precede it, xml:lang > > might need > > some processing (maybe hardcode it to namespaced > > processing?), > > and there's a couple of html4-deprecated attributes > > that are > > still there (language="" on script, and name="" on <a>) > > 05:52 < Hixie> other than that, in the errors hitting 10% or more of > > pages, i > > think we're catching only things i think we want to > > catch > > 05:53 < Hixie> i think language="" on script and name="" on <a> are > > probably ok > > to leave as errors, it's not like people can argue > > that html4 > > didn't warn them > > 05:53 < Hixie> target=_blank is a known issue > > 05:53 < Hixie> xml:lang i'm sure is on my list, but it would be > > useful to have > > an e-mail pointing out how common the error is exactly > > This is the email pointing out xml:lang. > > From the start of February to the middle of March, 15% of unique URLs > checked as (X)HTML5 by Validator.nu had an erroneous xml:lang > attribute in text/html. (Note that since the divisor contains the > XHTML5 pages as well, the percentage for HTML5 must be even higher.) > > As before, I think we should make zero-width image and iframe border > conforming, HTML 4.01 Strict table attributes (except axis) conforming > and make iframe width/height conforming. > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivonen@iki.fi > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ > > > >
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