If you specify an xml:lang attribute in the html tag, do
you still have to use a meta tag to specify the
content-language for the document?
You are not required to add the content-language tag to
your document. If your need to focus upon a specific
language for categorization and optimization,
On Aug 22, 2004, at 8:13 am, Sage Olson wrote:
If you specify an xml:lang attribute in the html tag, do you still
have to use a meta tag to specify the content-language for the
document?
Yes. It you specify xml:lang=ja, you still could send the file as
charset=shift_jis or charset=utf-8. (not a
PS - IE ignores the xml:lang and lang attributes, just
doesn't know they exist.
This isn't entirely correct.
JAWS, Window-Eyes, IBM HomePage Reader and other screen
readers that use IE as the required browser interpret
those values.
IE doesn't ignore those values. Those values simply do
not
