- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:28:30 +0200
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: 'Leif Halvard Silli' <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>, 'CE Whitehead' <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, ian@hixie.ch, www-international@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On 30.03.2010 18:21, Richard Ishida wrote: >> From: Leif Halvard Silli [mailto:xn--mlform-iua@målform.no] >> Sent: 21 March 2010 16:28 > >> There are some XHTML document types which forbids the @lang attribute. >> When you serve these document types as 'text/html', then all language >> info is lost, as xml:lang="<whatever>" is not respected in 'text/html'. >> For such documents, using<meta> content-language enables you to at >> least define *one* language (for all elements) in a user agent >> compatible way. > > Very soon this will no longer be the case. Changes to the remaining XHTML > specs to allow them to be served as text/html are at an advanced stage, and > include the addition of the lang attribute - since that is necessary for > language information to be recognized in HTML. So this case ought not to be > used for as a basis for proposed behaviour in HTML5. > ... Hm, that will be *very* controversial. Who's making these changes, and why is the HTML WG not involved in this? Best regards, Julian
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