14024 2011-09-04 11:11:40 +0000 using a class with prefix language- seems non-semantic to me and an abuse of classes. Why not use the data-* attribute? (data-language="") 2011-09-04 20:45:33 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-code-element P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 56276 0 contributor 2011-09-04 11:11:40 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-code-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-code-element Comment: using a class with prefix language- seems non-semantic to me and an abuse of classes. Why not use the data-* attribute? (data-language="") Posted from: 85.98.228.115 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0.1 56304 1 ian 2011-09-04 20:45:33 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: It's just as semantic as anything else would be. It's not an abuse of classes. data-* would be fine too, but seems no better in this case (e.g. CSS has dedicated syntax for classes which are simpler).