- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:19:00 +0200
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
Richard Ishida, Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:21:23 +0100: >> From: Leif Halvard Silli 21 March 2010 16:28 > >> There are some XHTML document types which forbids the @lang attribute. >> When you serve these document types as 'text/html', then all language >> info is lost, as xml:lang="<whatever>" is not respected in 'text/html'. >> For such documents, using <meta> content-language enables you to at >> least define *one* language (for all elements) in a user agent >> compatible way. > > Very soon this will no longer be the case. [ snip ] I in fact relayed the same info, on the 10th of march. [1] > [ ... ] So this case ought not to be > used for as a basis for proposed behaviour in HTML5. Straw man. My change proposal would - and will - be the same regardless of whether XHTML 1.1 can be served as text/html and regardless of whether XHTML 1.1. permits lang="*" or not. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0247 -- leif halvard silli
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