- From: Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:26:39 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: 'HTML WG' <public-html@w3.org>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
Ian Hickson 2008-08-21 03.36:
[...]
>> Also, the Content language selection algorithm in 4.2.5.3 makes no
>> mention of <html lang=.. as a way of identifying the default language,
>> which it actually does if it is present, since it has higher priority
>> than HTTP metadata.
>
> <html lang=""> only sets the language for the content of the <html>
> element, it doesn't set the language for, e.g., comment nodes outside the
> <html> element. See the definition of lang="" in HTML5 for details.
So, is the idea is that if we have this code:
<!-- This is English, actually! -->
<DOCTYPE html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ru">
Then the META element declares that the comment is in Russian?
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leif halvard silli
Received on Friday, 22 August 2008 00:27:25 UTC