Re: a new value for <title> and other meta tags

Perhaps I'm off base in seeing this connection to the discussion, but there
are many instances where a "shell" document includes other elements pulled
and constructed by the server based on browser/platform/language specifics,
and therefore having additional language information within the "shell"
document would be very useful.

Could that be what Sampo is working towards?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorenzo De Tomasi" <lorenzo.detomasi@libero.it>
To: <www-html@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: a new value for <title> and other meta tags


>
> on 22-08-2002 0:48, Sampo Syreeni at decoy@iki.fi wrote:
>
> > On 2002-08-22, Lorenzo De Tomasi uttered to www-html@w3.org:
> >
> >>> <title xml:lang="en" />
> >>> <title xml:lang="fr" />
> >>>
> >>> Would that be allowed?
> >>
> >> Why not? :)
> >
> > One reason is that one could use content negotiation to deal with
> > different primary languages in a multilingual context. That's what I'm
> > doing right now, with my site.
> >
> > I don't see why a page, having a primary language, would need to
> > incorporate multiple titles in different languages. Also, I don't see a
> > situation where pages *without* a language elevable above others would
be
> > needed. Hence, I would tend to advocate a single title for a single
page,
> > and multiple pages for multiple languages, possibly negotiated for via
> > already standardized protocols.
>
> I agree.
>
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 21 August 2002 21:52:17 UTC