- 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? -- leif halvard silli
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