17867 2012-07-18 07:08:53 +0000 i18n-ISSUE-126: Health warning about lang attribute in 4.1 2012-09-28 18:44:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian addison ian mike public-i18n-core contributor oldest_to_newest 70204 0 contributor 2012-07-18 07:08:53 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 16985 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-05-07 18:21:00 +0000 Original reporter: Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com> ================================================================================ #0 Addison Phillips 2012-05-07 18:21:14 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.1 The root element http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/semantics.html#the-root-element It's good that the example shows a 'lang' attribute. Can there (should there) be a health warning that @lang is expected here? ================================================================================ #1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-08 00:30:40 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do we really expect people to give it? ================================================================================ #2 Addison Phillips 2012-05-08 00:41:12 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We expect people to give it elsewhere. Providing it here give a hint to the user agent when drawing the browser's title bar or the tab title which can improve the font choices/render quality, especially if the title element doesn't match the language of the <html> element. ================================================================================ #3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-05-10 17:53:23 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can certainly add a note encouraging people to specify it. I doubt it'll have any effect though. ================================================================================ 74826 1 contributor 2012-09-28 18:44:54 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r7421. Check-in comment: Encourage lang='' on root element. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7420&to=7421