- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 01:24:18 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Jacob Rask wrote: > > has there ever been any discussion on including an attribute to the code > element, specify the programming language in the markup? If so, what was > the conclusion? I didn't find anything in the list archives. > > If not, I believe it would be a very good idea. Browsers could for > instance have default color codings for different languages, open > selected code/text in an editor associated with that language, etc... On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote: > > We would need a controlled vocabulary, of course. On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Michael A. Puls II wrote: > > <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-code-element> > > For example: <code class="language-python"></code> This has been discussed before, but the basic answer is "use the class attribute", at least for now. I would recommend, if this is a common-enough problem, that a group of people get together and define a common set of class attribute values for the <code> element, in the style of a Microformat. That way, we can build a common vocabulary that can then be made more formal in the next version of HTML. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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