-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.10.2005 um 13:30 schrieb Thomas Huriaux:
It does not answer my question. Sometimes, English requires quotes, whileFrench requires italic. There is not a semantic tag for all the situations where italic is required in French. To replace blindly <i> by <q> is a wrong solution.
HTML tags are telling something about the content. How that is rendered according to languages, is up to the browsers and correct css implementation.
"Sometimes requires" cannot be solved by wrong tag usage. Can't you give examples _what_ requires using language dependant italics or underlining?
The quotes are a good example, I think. Quotes are quotes, but every language uses its own rendering. But to solve that, no <i> and <u> tags should be used. That would be going back to html 2.0, where there was no solution for language dependent visual rendering. <i> and <U> do not tell anything about the content - even not for translators. But using <q> <cite> <a> and others do. Having content depedent tags is one or the concepts of HTML and i18n.
What the part of l10n here is: not creating their own different pages but look, if the visualisation of a quote or something else is according to language rules. If browsers suck here, ther must be done something using the css. But that does not replace bug reports for the browsers.
Exactly that have been the reasons why I made the example page yesterday immediately. I see the language concerns and I want to show you how that can be done better than having different and for blind people sometimes useless tags. You know that my own language German is really very different from English here, too. And the British people may have the same concerns for their version of English (which can be solved, too, id the gb pages have lang en-gb or whatever.
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