- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:46:03 +0100
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>, "Felix Sasaki" <fsasaki@w3.org>, public-cdf@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:37:03 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: > * 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... Which would break my alternative Dutch text for the advert in the "alt" attribute. Not an option... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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