Re: Usefulness of language annotations

On 14/08/2014 17:08, Jens O. Meiert wrote:
> (...)
>> What's the concern you have with existing lanb markup? Why this sudden
>> interest? What are you seeking to achieve?
> My concern is that language determination should not be a
> developer/author problem, but a tool one. That it’s too costly (in
> comparison, and cumulatively) to require this of developers. And also
> unrealistic (high number and influx of HTML novices).
>
> (...)

For which reason(s) does this apply to @lang and not to text
alternatives, forms, tables, correct choice of heading levels, etc, etc?
Why single out @lang?

Best regards,

Christophe


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