- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:09:53 -0000
- To: www-validator@w3.org
"Nick Kew" <nick@webthing.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.21.0211110054090.1485-100000@jarl.webthing.com... > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Bryan Archer wrote: > > > I tried putting <html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > > But that failed. > > Two answers: > (1) xml:lang > (2) The lang or xml:lang attribute isn't the only way to > identify your natural language usage. > > Oh, and a better answer > (3) WTF did the WG think they were doing breaking the above? because xml:lang works across different markup languages, and since XHTML 1.1 is a new doctype, there's no legacy other than what developers experience, and since lang was poorly used, and it's not a huge difference - there's no problem with it - the problem is with people serving up XHTML 1.1 as text/html. Jim.
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