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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?
Do we really expect people to give it?
(In reply to comment #1) > Do we really expect people to give it? 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.
I can certainly add a note encouraging people to specify it. I doubt it'll have any effect though.
This bug was cloned to create bug 17867 as part of operation convergence.
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