- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:37:03 +0100
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>, "Felix Sasaki" <fsasaki@w3.org>, public-cdf@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >Wouldn't this break the web and the way people expect _separate_ documents >to work? I actually strongly oppose to this. Advertisements are often in >English, even when linked from some Dutch page. When they don't declare >the language they are written in I rather have my screen reader guess >something based on the fact that the language is not known than to assume >it is Dutch. Also given that the document can be viewed independently and >you might or might not get a different language back would be plain wrong. The response to that would be that people should "properly" declare the language of referenced content on their <img>, <embed>, etc. elements... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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