- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spinsol.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 18:41:19 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > But see the changes below: the lang attribute has been totally > removed in > XHTML 1.1 and so not valid XHTML 1.1 > > The guidelines 11.2 say don't use attributes that are > depreciated...so Bobby does not apply to the guidelines??? Agreed, but there is a balance to be struck between avoiding deprecated elements and attributes and backwards compatibility. Purely from the point of view of accessibility it would seem that more immediate real-world problems could stem from the absence of the lang attribute than from its presence, and there is a good argument for staying with the 1.0 standard for the time being. This is not to say that long-term it's a good idea to continue its use (after all we want it to die some time), or that accessibility is the only criteria on which to make these decisions, but I think Bobby is justified in penalising the absence of lang, although perhaps it should give a warning explaining the two sides of the decision as to whether it should be used, rather than an error. Count yourself lucky, the people on this list working with SVG recently found themselves forced to use <embed> ! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPCDfT4Fpv9f1Mr0YEQIL7gCgnaFNh6P+xNDI9M9ubLmULukLSkkAoKq9 fc4pQFvE89XIZJ1nScB2/1xE =JjGb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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