"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, 2016-07-05 09:04 +0300: > Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/b597002f-29b7-d26e-2d62-714454eaa9d8@cs.tut.fi> > > 4.7.2016, 11:53, Michael[tm] Smith wrote: > > > "John E. Davey" <sixa369@mwt.net>, 2016-07-02 14:02 -0500: > > > Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/57780FE2.4050905@mwt.net> > > > > > > This weekend, the validator at https://validator.w3.org/nu/ started issuing > > > a "warning" "recommending" the addition of this <html dir="ltr" > > > lang="en-US"> tag to my web pages. > > That’s a very strange warning. Exactly how can this situation be reproduced? > Testing with a dummy valid HTML5 document, with no dir or lang attribute, I > get no such warning. Currently the language identifier will only be run on a document if it has at least 512 characters of text content. > It seems to me that there have been some experimental changes in the > validator, doing some natural language guessing and making suggestions on > lang attributes. Yeah > And my guess is that these experiments were then removed from the > production version, after causing some confusion. Nope the feature is still enabled. —Mike -- Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike
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