Re: ISSUE-88: content-language-multiple - Straw Poll for Objections

Leif Halvard Silli, Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:06:52 +0200:
> Sam Ruby, Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:17:36 -0400:
>> On 06/23/2010 11:52 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
>>> The poll is available here, and will run starting at midnight EDT, and
>>> run through Wednesday, May 19th.
>> 
>> Correction: Wednesday, June 30th.
> 
> More errors!
> 
> The poll has errors in the second poll option:
> 
>   ]] 3. Objections to the Change Proposal to require user agents 
>      ignore pragmas that specify multiple languages [[
> 
> What does this refer to? FIRSTLY: We do _not_ vote about how User 
> Agents are supposed to behave - but what should be considered valid. 
> SECONDLY: The subsequent link goes to a message from Ian about 
> @longdesc - and - THIRDLY - the link text _again_ talks as if it is 
> about how user agents should react:
> 
>   ]] We have a Change Proposal to keep the current text that 
>      require user agents ignore pragmas that specify multiple
>      languages, discouraging the use of the pragma, encouraging
>      lang="" use instead, and explicitly requiring that 
>      conformance checkers warn of this issue where relevant.. [[
>      [*] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Apr/0308

Sorry, I meant to say that it points to this message, which indeed is 
about @longdesc:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0393.html

> None of the 3 change proposals will affect how user agents should 
> behave - all of them deal with what should be considered legal and what 
> kind of warnings there should be etc.
> -- 
> leif halvard silli
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leif halvard silli

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