- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:46:55 +0100
- To: Oskar Welzl <lists@welzl.info>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Oskar Welzl wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 05.02.2006, 10:42 +0200 schrieb Jukka K. Korpela: > >> (And the hreflang attribute probably always remains useless. Personally, I >> use it sometimes - as a documentation for myself mostly. > > Why do you think it is useless? Because it has no normative effect on a web page whatsoever. <a href="doc" hreflang="nl">... has no difference to <a href="doc" <!-- doc is in Dutch --> >... > When I > started to use a stylesheet that indicates languages of link targets > based on the value of @hreflang, I noticed people *not* following links > to sites they wouldnt understand. This is a good use of hreflang, and is not an argument against something sensible being done with the value, like actually going and fetching that version of the document. > Still, as I said before: With @hreflang being meta-information only, its > not as bad. Nothing really breaks. Things get worse with a @hreflang > that is in fact an @acceptlang. Still, as I said before, if the metainformation is correct, nothing breaks, you get the exact same result. If the metainformation is wrong, you get a better result. Sounds like a win-win to me... Steven Pemberton
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