Hugo, I agree. Ideally we would use the lang attribute. however, if I understand correctly, browser support is very limited for it. Using a class in the meantime seems to be the preferred practice.
by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugo van der Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: > > > My suggestions is that we wrap any text needing a particular Unicode font > > with a span and give that span a class attribute that matches the language > > code. For example <span class="he"> for Hebrew. This will be more > > semantically rich and forward compatible. We can then specify the Unicode > > font in the CSS. > > If my interpretation of the HTML specs are correctly we should use > something like: > > <span class="verse" lang=he"> > > See also: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#idx-lang_attribute > > Hugo. > > -- > All email sent to me is bound to the rules described on my homepage. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/ > Don't meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, > for they are subtle and quick to anger. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
