- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:56:41 -0800
- To: public-cdf@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20060209225641.GB11210@ridley.dbaron.org>
On Wednesday 2006-01-25 15:58 +0900, fsasaki@w3.org wrote: > Comment 5 > At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0601-cdf/ > If you ask an SVG document about language information, and the > document is inside an HTML document, the xml:lang attribute in the > HTML applies to the SVG as well. It seems that the compounding specs > should say: \"You should get the same results for both inclusion and > referencel.\" I strongly disagree. One of the goals of the *framework*-level documents is that they should be general enough to describe the current behavior that people depend on on the Web. If the current Web can be described as a profile of the framework (even if nobody actually writes that profile), then I think future developments on the Web have a significantly better chance of being able to evolve within the framework. In other words, the framework should not contradict anything that Web pages depend on. If the CDF working group were to accept your comment, that means that if I were to write the following XHTML: <html lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> ... <p>Page with English text...</p> ... <iframe src="http://www.lemonde.fr/" /> ... </html> I would be giving authoritative information that http://www.lemonde.fr/ is in US English. I don't think that's what people writing such markup intend, and I don't think making a spec say something like that would be useful given the likelihood doing so would lead to contradictory authoritative information. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ > Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation
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