An #HTML question for you fine folk.
Should the `lang` attribute be used to indicate computer programming languages?
For example
`<code lang="python">…</code>`
I know that the spec says it should be a valid BCP 47 language tag. But I wonder if that limitation is still useful.
What other semantic ways are there of indicating the programming language of a code snippet?
Terence Eden /
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2024-08-16 07:16:23
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