- From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:52:55 -0400
- To: cewcathar@hotmail.com
- Cc: ishida@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
Hi, my comments that I sent before because they were confusing; here they are again; (I put my comments online too http://www.geocities.com/quaiouestenglish/w3c/CommentsonInternationalization.html ) Comments on: "Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content" (http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20050224/) * Section 3 o Section 3.1 par 4 {NOTE: Below par 4 you might discuss the language code: mul which might be used audience language only, and only under certain circumstances: (but I would never recommend it for text-processing language!--see note below:} "There are also pages where the navigational information, including the page title, is in one language but the real content of the page is in another. While this is not necessarily good practice, it doesn't change the fact that the language of the intended audience is usually that of the content, regardless of the language at the top of the document source." {ADD ??} > "A case where the audience and text processing languages differ slightly is an online foreign language lesson, written in a single language (immersion) but aimed at speakers of multiple languages; for example, the text-processing language might be only: fr (or only en , or only ar), while the audience language might be declared as: mul (multiple) or as both: mul, fr (since presumably the audience speaks some French)." * Section 5 o Best Practice 1, "Note" "rather than an attribute on the html element" > "rather than attribute[s] on the html element" {COMMENT: there's more than one attribute sometimes, as both the lang and xml:lang attributes may be used.} o Best Practice 1, Par 8/9 (last Par before Background Information/Resources) "The relevance will depend on the structure used for the document." {COMMENT: "relevance" is confusing. Do you mean "usefulness" or "effectiveness," or do you mean "location"?} o ??? Best Practice 2 "Discussion" par 3 "Although we would normally recommended to declare the default text-processing language in the html tag, since only one language can be defined at a time when using attributes, there may appear to be little point in doing so if a document has separate content to support multilingual audiences. It may be more appropriate to begin labeling the language on lower level elements, where the actual text is in one language or another." {add to the end??} > ", and to just specify the character set in the html tag." {COMMENT: I'm new to some of this, you can declare the character set in the document type declaration and you can declare it in the meta tags can you declare it without a language tag such as en or mul??? SORRY!!} o Best Practice 4: Identifying changes in language within the document, "How to", par 2/3 ??? "The lang attribute can be used on all HTML elements . . . " > "The lang and xml:lang attributes can be used on all . . . " {COMMENT: There is no mention of the xml: lang attribute in this paragraph. though not only can it can be used on all HTML elements; it is also used on XML elements.} (I am still working on the French translation (sections 5 on, as I think we got feedback on the first part-- and may have more-- but if anyone wants to translate sections 6-8 into French for the purpose of getting comments, that would be great too as I may not get it done that fast; have other things to do; sorry; it's summer and not that shady here for the kitty who likes to sit in the car when I'm at the library) --C. E. Whitehead cewcathar@hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglinemarch07
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