- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:31:06 -0800
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, "Linss, Peter" <peter.linss@hp.com>
Christoph Päper wrote: > > Btw., an intentionally blank section -- what the hell? To preserve section numbering across versions. There was a :contains() selector there, iirc. >> * E:lang(fr) -- Probably the most questionable selector since apparently >> replaceable by attribute selectors. > > I still think it was too strict to make it impossible for this pseudo class to > be used with markup languages that do not use IETF-compatible language tags. > It was the right choice to make the selector syntax itself compliant, of > course. That could be fixed by changing # substring of, the element's language value, to | substring of, the element's language value normalized to RFC3066, or somesuch. I don't think the intention was to make :lang() not work for other language syntaxes. ~fantasai
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