- From: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:29:53 -0500
- To: "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On 19/02/2008, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > > Jens Meiert wrote: > > > * E:lang(fr) – Probably the most questionable selector since apparently replaceable by attribute selectors. > > Certainly not. > > :lang() deals with not only with the attributes carried by the element > also with the language of prose in the element. That is determined not > only by the element itself, but also its ancestors, the META tags on the > document if it's HTML and even the HTTP headers. In that case I should change my sites to use :lang(). Last time I checked (which was a very long time ago) it did not work at all; hopefully things are better now. Checking language using attribute tags is a nightmare. Something that would check ancesters etc. would be awesome. -- cheers, -ambrose Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die. PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important)
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