[Techtalk] Fixing up live.linuxchix.org

Wim De Smet kromagg at gmail.com
Mon May 30 03:42:11 EST 2005


On 5/28/05, Mary <mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2005, Wim De Smet wrote:
> > I think this might simply be solved by putting a lang attribute on the
> > enclosing block. Firefox does render the hebrew text though.
> 
> The trouble with doing this is that I'm not supplying the text, I'm
> *aggregating* it. It's the same problem as declaring "this entire page
> is XHTML" or "this entire page is HTML 2". It's authored by 40 people,
> so I can't know. If Shoshannah one day makes an entry in English, and
> I've enclosed all her entries in markers that indicate that it's
> Hebrew (and she certainly does embed English words in her entries
> sometimes anyway) then we run into the opposite problem.
> 
>...

Well I was thinking more of parsing the lang headers from the
supplying website and then setting div lang tags accordingly actually.

greets,
Wim


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