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

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

--- Comment #74 from Felix Sasaki <felix.sasaki@dfki.de> 2012-01-26 20:16:33 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #73)
> Felix: what is the use case?

The use case is to cover existing web content, which doesn't follow the good
practice you and Martin have mentioned with regards to attributes.

But I won't push for that here - we have an upcoming working group that will
also define best practices how to deal with that kind of existing HTML content,
see
http://www.w3.org/2011/12/mlw-lt-charter.html
and it's OK that this is not covered in the HTML5 spec itself.

So for the record, I agree with your proposal at
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12417#c64

Felix

> 
> Generally speaking, it's possible to have elements and attributes have
> different languages; you just use multiple elements. e.g.:
> 
>    <p lang="en">Hello
>     <span lang=fr title="Ceci est le mot anglais pour 'chat'.">
>      <span lang=en>Cat</span>
>     </span>.
>    </p>
> 
> Without a compelling reason to have to put everything on one element, I think
> we're far better off without the added complexity.

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Received on Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:16:42 UTC