- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:01:54 +0000
- To: MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "CJK discussion (public-i18n-cjk@w3.org)" <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>, 董福興 <bobbytung@wanderer.tw>
Apologies for not including Murata-san's text below, but I can't find the original email in my mail client for some reason. Note that the proposals in the ruby extension for HTML5 introduce improvements for single-sided ruby, vis. the rb element and a markup syntax that allows for better fallback. The double-sided markup support is just a small extension of that basic approach. I am hearing from Google Japan that they are seeing requirements for double-sided ruby from their users. I believe that Amazon are also interested in getting support. Note that the HTML5 ruby extension supports the markup needed for double-sided ruby. CSS ruby-position will indeed be needed to move away from the *default* positioning of both single- and double-sided ruby, but browsers are currently managing to display single-sided ruby correctly without CSS, and presumably they could do so in a default fashion for double-sided also while we await the completion of the CSS Ruby Module. That's not to say that we shouldn't work on the CSS spec. What's needed for that, however, is people willing and able to help move the spec forward. Does anyone know of anyone willing to help? RI PS: I will reply to the bopomofo comments separately. -- Richard Ishida W3C http://rishida.net/
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