Minutes 2006-05-17: GEO telecon

Present: Richard, Russ, David, Najib(on IRC)
Regrets: Molly (travel), John (travel)
Late regrets: Andrew (time conflict)

[18:13] <r12a> Topic: Info Share
[18:13] <r12a> Russ has submitted a Unicode paper proposal on Vista
[18:13] <r12a> RI too, on CSS3 and International Text
[18:14] <r12a> RI has implemented a PPT to HTML converter and used on some of our tutorials
[18:14] <r12a> eg. http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/css3-text/
[18:15] <r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/en/text/Slide0010.html
[18:19] <r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/en/text/Slide0010.html
[18:22] <r12a> ACTION: RI look into bug on slide 8 with IE


[18:25] <r12a> Topic: Future of the WG
[18:25] <r12a> see http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html (at the bottom)
[18:26] <r12a> seems ok to David and Russ


[18:30] <r12a> Topic: Tutorial: XHTML for Arabic & Hebrew
[18:30] <r12a> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/
[18:31] <r12a> >> Ok to publish (ie. remove from wide review)?
[18:31] <najib> OK for me
[18:38] <r12a> All agreed that ok to publish


[18:38] <r12a> Topic: Language declaration best practises doc
[18:38] <r12a>  >> Things to change before publication as a W3C Note?
[18:38] <r12a>  >> Ok with the new title ?
[18:38] <r12a>  http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html
[18:39] <r12a> New title:  Specifying the Language of Content: Internationalization Best Practices for Authoring XHTML & HTML
[18:42] <DavidClarke> try: "Best practice for internationlization of XHTML & HTML"
[18:44] <najib> "Best practice for internationlization of XHTML & HTML: Specifying the Language of Content." ?
[18:45] <najib> The last phrase  (specifying...)  is what it is all about
[18:47] <r12a> how about
[18:48] <r12a> Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying the Language of XHTML & HTML Content
[18:48] <najib> OK :-)
[18:48] <DavidClarke> sounds good
[18:49] <r12a> Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content
[18:51] <r12a> let's use this
[18:51] <Russ> agreed
[18:51] <r12a> agreed
[18:51] <DavidClarke> agreed

[18:53] <r12a> next: can we remove change marks?
[18:53] <r12a> Russ to send grammatical notes by email
[18:54] <r12a> RR: 3.3 Relationships with character encoding and directionality
[18:54] <r12a> 3.3 Relationships between language, character encoding and directionality
[18:55] <r12a> agreed
[18:55] <Russ> agreed
[18:57] <r12a> David: please add definition of metadata
[18:57] <r12a> ok
[18:58] <r12a> "Primary language is metadata about the document as a whole. <define metadata here> Such metadata"
[18:59] <najib> R12a?
[19:00] <r12a> yes najib ?
[19:00] <najib> about 3.3, It is not clear why directionality is mentionned (only because it is not implied by lang attribute? )
[19:00] <Zakim> -Russ
[19:00] <najib> Change ? the title 3.3 to thereis no relationship between character encoding language and directionality
[19:00] <Russ> don't forget to zip the PST file and send it again
[19:00] <r12a> ok thanks for the input najib, i'll consider it
[19:00] <r12a> meeting now closing



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Richard Ishida
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Received on Thursday, 18 May 2006 08:00:49 UTC