- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 02:38:05 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, HTMLWG WG <public-html@w3.org>
Ian Hickson, Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:37:29 +0000 (UTC): > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Richard Ishida wrote: > We can make the pragma entirely non-conforming instead of conforming with > a warning, if that would help. [...] As surprise to the Mozilla community? What about the just mentioned "matching implementations" motto? [1] >> We agree with the HTML5 spec [2] that authors should be encouraged to >> use the lang attribute to declare the default language of the document, [...] > That does make sense. Would it be acceptable then to just make the pragma > non-conforming, thus removing any valid syntax at all? In zero change proposal (Mark IV) you claim: [2] ]] POSITIVE EFFECTS * Encourages authoring behaviour compatible with both legacy user agents and with conforming user agents. [[ But here is an example to prove that it is not true: div[lang=""]:lang(en){background:red} The above CSS selector should have been "impossible". However, regardless of whether we went for your proposal to remove META content-language altogether [3] or for zero change (mark IV) - the current text, this "impossible" selector would "work", in Mozilla. In both XHTML and in HTML. All it takes is to serve the page with a content-language HTTP header (with a single or with multiple language tags - that's not the issue): http://malform.no/testing/html5/attr-lang/mozilla-lang-lottery/ The issue can be cured, through a HTML4 and XHTML1 valid use of META content-language: http://malform.no/testing/html5/attr-lang/mozilla-lang-lottery/fixed Thus this issue is also related to authoring requirements - bug 7034.[4] [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/0306 [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/0307 [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/0308 [4] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7034 -- leif halvard silli
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