- From: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@euronet.nl>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:51:55 +0100
At 02:19 +0100 UTC, on 2007-01-11, H?kon Wium Lie wrote: > Also sprach Sander Tekelenburg: > > > FWIW, my feeling is that it would be best if there'd be a defined format >for > > hyphenation rules, and browsers would accept such description files [...] > > This format exists. It was pioneered by TeX Cool! (I couldn't find a spec though. Could you point to it?) [...] > I agree that browsers should read these dictionaries. OK, so given your position ;) that raises the question of why they don't yet :) Just a matter of "so many things to do, so little time"? Or does this require something to be specced first? > However, the > dictionaries don't have to ship with browsers -- they can be web > resources just like style sheets and images are. I'm not sure they should. I think this is the sort of thing that users should have easy control over and Web publishers shouldn't be burdened with (they're unlikely to be hyphenation specialists, after all). So my thought was more that users could themselves create such files (or, more likely for most users, download someone else's creation) and install it, to have the browser apply them to all content in that language. I think that's the only way to ensure users can get the hyphenation that they consider correct. (Obviously the browser would have to allow multiple hypenation files, for multiple languages, to be installed.) The only reason I suggested that browsers could even ship with them is that doing so would more quickly reach more users; get them aware of and used to such a nicety. Not a necessity. More a means of 'evangelisation', if you will. No doubt the first browser to offer this will generate some buzz ;) -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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