HTML5 review: sections to look at

Forwarding this for people planning to look at the HTML5 spec... 

http://www.w3.org/International/2004/10/xhtml2-i18n-review.html

RI

> Richard Ishida wrote:
> > I have read the whole spec looking for i18n related areas that we 
> > should check. There are others, but this list will give us
> plenty to
> > be getting on with.  We should read these, looking for possible 
> > issues, but also compare with the old HTML spec and the comments we 
> > made to XHTML2 folks. (In fact I think we will probably
> have to raise
> > all the same issues we raised with XHTML2 with the HTML5
> guys again.)
> > 
> > 3.2.1. Common parser idioms
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#common2
> > 
> > 3.2.3.4. Ratios
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#ratios
> > 
> > 3.2.4. Dates and times
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#dates
> > 
> > 3.4.2. The title attribute
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-title
> > 
> > 3.4.3. The lang (HTML only) and xml:lang (XML only) attributes 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-lang
> > 
> > 3.4.4. The dir attribute
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-dir
> > 
> > 3.7.2. The title element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-title0
> > 
> > 3.7.4. The link element (for hreflang) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-link
> > 
> > 3.7.5. The meta element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#meta
> > 
> > 3.7.5.4. Specifying the document's character encoding 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#charset
> > 
> > 3.12.2. The q element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-q
> > 
> > 3.12.9. The abbr element (for use of title attribute) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-abbr
> > 
> > 3.12.10. The time element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-time
> > 
> > 3.12.11. The meter element (should bidi settings affect meters?) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-meter
> > 
> > 3.12.19. The i element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-i
> > 
> > 3.12.20. The b element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-b
> > 
> > 3.12.21. The bdo element
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#the-bdo
> > 
> > 4.4.3.1. Link type "alternate"
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#link-type
> > 
> > 4.5. Interfaces for URI manipulation 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#interfaces
> > 
> > 4.7. Determining the type of a new resource in a browsing context 
> > (particularly BOM related) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#content-type-sniffing
> > 
> > 5.6. The text selection APIs (particularly for bidi selection) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#selection
> > 
> > 6.2.3. Parsing an event stream (particularly for BOM) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#parsing0
> > 
> > 8.1.2. Elements (for classification of title element) 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#elements0
> > 
> > 8.1.4. Character entity references
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#character
> > 
> > 8.2.2.1. Determining the character encoding 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#determining0
> > 
> > 8.2.2.2. Character encoding requirements 
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#character0
> > 
> > 8.2.3.1. Tokenising entities
> > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#tokenising
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The XHTML2 review comments are here: 
> > http://www.w3.org/International/2004/10/xhtml2-i18n-review.html
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > RI
> > 
> > ============
> > Richard Ishida
> > Internationalization Lead
> > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
> >  
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> > http://www.w3.org/International/
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> > 
> > 
>

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