- From: Fuqiao Xue <xfq@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:58:58 +0800
- To: Bobby Tung <bobbytung@w3.org>
- Cc: public-clreq-admin@w3.org, Xidorn Quan <me@upsuper.org>, Team Beihang <team-beihang@w3.org>
Yes, I will add it to the agenda. Fuqiao > On Aug 10, 2021, at 18:01, Bobby Tung <bobbytung@w3.org> wrote: > > A letter from Florian, should we add it to agenda? > > > >> 開始轉寄郵件： >> >> 寄件人: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> >> 標題: Drumming up support for Ruby >> 日期: 2021年8月10日 GMT+8 上午1:52:42 >> 收件人: Bobby Tung <bobbytung@wanderer.tw> >> >> Hi Bobby, >> >> As you know, there's been a fair amount of progress on the CSS Ruby spec[1], and we've also made a Pull Request against the HTML spec [2] to bring back support for the richer markup style that used to be specified in the W3C spec and which is supported by Firefox. >> >> However, so far, Firefox remains the only browser to have put serious effort in implementation (also Kindle, but they're not a browser, so some people don't take them seriously), and this is blocking progress on the over all topic. >> >> Elika, Murata-san, and myself are working on trying to drum up support from various people in the Japanese industry, to try and make browsers realize that there is demand for proper support for ruby, in the hope that they will raise the priority, and/or make public statement of support, which would help with the standardization. We're trying to convinced interested parties to contact browsers privately and to make public statements calling for better ruby support. >> >> All this takes a bit of time to coordinate, so it's not going to happen overnight, but I wanted to reach out to you, as I thought if you too are interested in pushing browsers for better ruby support, it could be nice to try and make some noise roughly at the same time. >> >> The particular needs of the Chinese language community aren't exactly the the same as those of Japan, but the specs are designed to help all of us, so it could be nice to try and join forces. >> >> We wrote piece of text we've written for the Japanese publishers [3]. I doubt you can use the same text, as the particular needs of the Chinese language community aren't exactly the the same as those of Japan, but this may give you a good sense of what we're after. (This has not been shared broadly yet, so please keep this particular document quiet for now). >> >> Let me know what you think, >> —Florian >> >> >> [1] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ruby-1/ >> [2] PR at: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6478 >> Preview at: https://html.rivoal.net/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-ruby-element >> [3] https://florian.rivoal.net/ruby/2021/advocacy/ > > >> Fuqiao Xue <xfq@w3.org> 於 2021年8月10日 下午5:09 寫道： >> >> Dear CLReq editors and contributors, >> >> Per discussion offline, we targeted August 10 (Tuesday), 19:00-20:00 (UTC+8) as our next meeting. This email is a friendly reminder. If the time does not work for you, please let me know. >> >> The initial agenda for the call include: >> >> [[ >> Topic: Go through the pull request list >> >> Topic: Go through the issue list >> >> Topic: Next teleconference time >> >> Topic: AOB >> ]] >> >> Please feel free to propose if you have any other topics to discuss. >> >> As usual, we will use Skype for this meeting. The IRC channel for the call is #clreq (on irc.w3.org). >> >> Talk to you later! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Fuqiao >
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