Re: Computer languages in langage tag

Ian Hickson <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:16:53 +0000 (UTC)

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On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Mariusz GliwiÅ~Dski wrote:
>
> Seems like we don't understand each other (in both directions). The 
> basic question is why do we have separate <code> and <lang> elements? 
> Hope it'll let You proceed reading my previous e-mail.

HTML5 suggests using <code class="language-..."> to indicate the language 
of the code, with lang="" reserved for the human language.

See this for more details:
   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-code-element

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