Language Best Practises: Please review

Chaps,

I have once more gone through 

http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html

today, and I feel happy about removing the term 'primary language' in favour of 'language of the intended audience' (or similar).  I would like to bring closure to this.

Please look through the text (look for change marks) and tell me if you see any problems.  I will take silence for assent and will assume that everyone is happy if I don't hear otherwise by Wednesday a.m. (UK).

I also made some editorial improvements, and a couple of significant changes to the document:

1. I moved some of the text that was buried in a best practise to what is now section 4.2.  I think this constitutes a major improvement to the document.

2. I turned these headings:
How to declare the text-processing language -> Using attributes to declare the text-processing language

How to specify primary language metadata -> Using metadata to specify the language of the intended audience

I think this is much better from the user's point of view (esp. in the techniques index) since we can't expect them to know the difference between text-processing and primary language - nor to care much.  But they will be interested in how they should use attributes.


3. I edited, and in one case rewrote, some best practises in light of changes in RFC 3066bis.

4. I tweaked the "How to ..." headings, since these are no longer techniques.

Please also comment on these changes, if you feel the need, in the same timeframe.

Thanks,
RI




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Richard Ishida
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Received on Friday, 30 June 2006 17:14:13 UTC