- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:31:03 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Patrick Garies" <pgaries@fastmail.us>, public-html@w3.org
On Jan 14, 2008 6:16 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Olivier GENDRIN wrote: > > > If we care about waving underlines for chinese, we could also care to > > have a cartouche around names in old egyptian... > > or to be able to render pages in Boustrophedon style ? > > Come on, Olivier, Chinese is a living language that > is used daily by over one billion people; surely it > is not too much to ask that their needs are recognised, > rather than being cavalierly dismissed by comparing > them to the needs of a society that existed thousands > of years ago ... > > Philip TAYLOR Anyway, this is presentation, so it has to be handled by UA or CSS, not by the HTML 5 specification. We just have to give them a tool to guess that 'this is a name'. And this is the only question that is in scope of the WG. -- Olivier G. http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
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