RE: Issue 88, content-language-multiple: change proposal

As a result of the i18n telecon discussion I have changed two things in the change proposal:

[1] Propose that 'document-wide default language' now be changed to 'Content Language pragma language' (not very beautiful, but most accurate).

[2] Added another impact:
"Establishes a clear precedence model for language declarations: language attribute is stronger than HTTP or pragma (defined in HTML 4), pragma is stronger than HTTP (not clear in HTML 4)."

Cheers,
RI

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

http://www.w3.org/International/
http://rishida.net/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-core-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida
> Sent: 12 January 2010 20:03
> To: public-i18n-core@w3.org; fielding@gbiv.com
> Cc: 'Leif Halvard Silli'; 'Michael (tm) Smith'
> Subject: Issue 88, content-language-multiple: change proposal
> Importance: High
> 
> Roy, i18n folks,
> 
> Due to pressure of work, I was unable to complete this action before leaving
> for my vacation 3 weeks ago.  I have completed it today as my first work item
> of the new year.  In the meantime the HTML working group appears to have
> handed the baton to Roy Fielding.
> 
> Roy, I hope that the proposal I put together will either serve for your action
> or provide a good basis from which you can work (or perhaps you'd like to
> make a joint submission?)
> 
> Here is the text I came up with:
> http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Htmlissue88
> 
> Comments welcome from all and any on this list please, for now.  Addison, I
> propose that we dedicate some time during tomorrow's i18n telecon to
> critiquing the proposal (and that we invite Roy to participate, if he is
> interested).
> 
> Note that I did not address in this change proposal our discussions during
> TPAC with Ian about making lang and xml:lang (non-namespace) synonyms,
> to facilitate authoring of XHTML.  I'd like to keep that as the separate
> discussion that it is.
> 
> Cheers,
> RI
> 
> 
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> Internationalization Lead
> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
> 
> http://www.w3.org/International/
> http://rishida.net/
> 
> 
> 
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>

Received on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 18:38:15 UTC