- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:06:12 +0200
- To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Cc: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org
On Feb 7, 2010, at 20:01, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > I think it's fair to say that right now, <html lang> is not so > uniformly useful that authors need to be warned if they omit it. If > the *average* page (some random hit from Google, say) doesn't have any > use for it, then I don't think it should raise a warning -- warnings > should be useful to most authors, not only a small minority. > Otherwise you're making warnings as a whole less useful. Moreover, making validators emit a message (of any kind) about the absence of a language declaration is likely to lead to authoring tools putting in a placeholder in order to silence validators. As a result, at least "en" and "en-US" can often be taken to mean "placeholder". -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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