- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:44:19 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- cc: www International <www-international@w3.org>
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > I wonder why we still have [hreflang]. It seems if the only practical > benefit is as a CSS styling hook it might be better to place it in > content as that would be more accessible too. And by having it in the > language it will waste people's time wondering what to do with it. Any > reason hreflang="" is still in HTML, Ian? It's useful, in conjunction with rel=alternate, for search engines and other automated tools to know that two pages are (or rather, might be) translations of each other, and can be exposed in a UI that exposes alternate versions of pages, much like rel=alternate with type=application/pdf or similar, and much like (for <link>) media=print or similar. It's not widely used, but since it's not widely misused either, leaving it seems mostly harmless. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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