- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:36:59 PST
- To: Bernard Chester <BernardC@saros.com>
- CC: "'WInter'" <www-international@w3.org>
In general, design things so the sender is conservative about what it sends and the recipient is liberal about what it accepts. A server should send a content-language if it has one. A recipient should accept both a content-language label and also a <HTML LANG=xx> attribute and also other embedded LANG attributes. This is pretty simple. The senders are simple because they do what they can and not the impossible. The recipients are a little more complex, but actually, not any more complex than they have to be now. Sometimes you just have to guess the language anyway. No real robot or spider will be able to do useful work just assuming that every document they care about has a content-language. -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Saturday, 1 March 1997 02:37:05 UTC