RE: RE: Defining the language of a document

• From: Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>
• Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 19:50:58 -0800
• To: www-international@w3.org
• Message-ID: <7FC3066C236FD511BC5900508BAC86FE4D826B@trestles.internal.realnames.com>

> > Many HTML tags support the LANG attribute.  This is a good
> > way to inform the browser the language of the text.
> 
> Browsers are not the only software components that can
> use language identification.  Spiders can put language
> identification to good use.

And it does make a difference even for European language when it is used to
ease accessibility to your Web site, using speech synthesis for example. So,
use it!

YA

Received on Sunday, 30 December 2001 22:53:31 UTC