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Addison Phillips, Chair W3C Internationalization Web Standards What’s Happening?
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Addison Phillips, Chair W3C Internationalization
Web Standards What’s Happening?
Addison Phillips
Chair, W3C Internationalization Working Group
Principal Engineer Internationalization Architect
Amazon International Technology
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Many of the slides, examples, and illustrations in this presentation are courtesy of Richard Ishida, W3C. Photo credit: (cc) V1ctor, Flickr.com
W3C
The International Activity@W3C
Just a few changes
Lots of things are going on…
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY
Promote Unicode Horizontal Review
Investigate Problems Document Best Practices & Requirements
Create Tests Involve the Community
PROMOTE UNICODE
Promote Unicode
Character Model: String Matching
String-Search: a new effort
Mongolian VS
• Using our list; took to UTC
HORIZONTAL REVIEW
Review Specifications
• Reviewed over 40 W3C specifications in the past year – Often late in the development cycle – Emerging issues – Complex specifications
(HTML, SVG, TTML, CSS, etc.)
Specdev
• Both as a document and as a checklist
General Process
Raised on i18n-activity github
Issue open/close shown on www-international@
Reviewed in Weekly Teleconference
• w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/reviews
Raised on specification’s github…
… and worked through…
INVESTIGATE PROBLEMS
JSON and Language/Direction
Vs.
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Show link to json bidi discussion page Rli/pdi don’t have direction info at all, bug in bidi?
Language “Detection”
• Need best practices to make end-to-end systems work
Browser Encoding Support
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Pushing browser vendors
@dir isolation
DOCUMENT BEST PRACTICES & REQUIREMENTS
Tutorial and Article Updates
• Updates many articles • Retired old ones • Translations wanted
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Mostly the work of R12A, International Man of Mystery Also, edX courses
Techniques
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Spec devs and implementers: find information to implement non-latin script typographic behavior. That’s a bit more than fonts. Justification, letter spacing are examples Improving doc more for layout req authors
I18N Checker
• New version • 2X checks • Validator now incorporates language
detection
Layout Requirements
Requirements for Japanese Layout
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One recent area of activity has involved the development of Japanese Layout requirements, involving the foremost typographic experts in Japan working in Japanese, then translating their work into English. This document is over 300 pages long when printed, and covers a range of typographic requirements for Japanese text, such as vertical layout, page layout techniques, justification and ruby annotation. This information is being used by working groups. For example, the ruby annotation information is being used for discussions around the development of various CSS3 modules, XSL-FO, SVG, and HTML5. It is also being used to extend the non-W3C ePub standard (used for digital books in the iPad, amongst others). There is some interest in extending these requirements to Chinese and Korean. This is a great example of a community getting together to address their needs for support of the multilingual Web. Another such initiative is currently in preparation, lead by the W3C Office in India, that will look at needs for handling of Indic scripts. You can follow discussions about East Asian scripts, Indic scripts or RTL scripts by subscribing to or following lists at the W3C. �(See http://www.w3.org/International/about#mail.)
Ruby Markup Article
• Tells you how to do it
• Tells you how to really do it
• It changed the spec
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Do the demo!!
Two More Coming…
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Updated and added to the tests also
What about other scripts?
… and more coming (Hebrew just starting?)
Tests
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The Activity also develops browser tests in areas related to internationalization. We also produce tables of results for the tests for the latest versions of major browsers. The slide shows results of tests for WOFF font support. (Note that these are very early days for WOFF support, and we expect the red boxes to quickly fill with green.)
PROVIDING EXPERTISE
Promote Unicode Promote the Multilingual Web
Review Specifications Improving the Web
Write Standards Document Best Practices
Investigate Problems Create Tests
Involve the Community
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CC Photo by Pete Prodoehl
NEEDING WORK
The Web needs your help
this is your Web – not the W3C's
we need you to make the Web worldwide
get involved
Thank you
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Always remember that community involvement is crucial to development of W3C specifications. The W3C does not simply decide in an ivory tower to develop specifications and impose them on the public. The process only starts when we have support from the W3C member companies, experts and industry participants who will compose the Working Group. If you feel that this work is valuable, please consider participating in the Working Group.
