[Bug 12417] HTML5 is missing attribute for specifying translatability of content

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12417

--- Comment #47 from Arle Lommel <fenevad@gmail.com> 2011-08-15 12:37:08 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #46)
> HTML serialization of HTML5 doesn't support namespaces hence you can't use
> its:translate. Need for translatability is enough widespread to justify having
> "native" attribute.

Just seconding what Jirka has to say. ITS is intended for XML documents, but
HTML5 (with the exception of polyglot markup) is not XML and so cannot use ITS.
Even polyglot markup runs into trouble when using external namespaces since the
resulting document would then be using XML features not required to be
supported in HTML5. So while using ITS appears like a good idea at first, it
won't work for HTML5.

But Jirka's second point—“Need for translatability is enough
widespread…”—is also crucial. If translation of web content is enough of
a core function on the web (and I would argue that it is), then core web
technologies ought to support it. I would agree with Jirka’s assessment of
the importance of this feature, but that is ultimately the question to be
determined: is translatability important enough to be defined as a native
attribute?

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Received on Monday, 15 August 2011 12:37:15 UTC