- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:00:02 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-html@w3.org
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
(Trimmed cc's to avoid excessive cross-posting; re-added www-international on request.) I read through all the feedback on this topic. There doesn't seem to be a really common enough use case for adding a feature to the core language to handle it. However, I do agree that this is something that is an issue for some authors and implementors. I would recommend approaching the Microformats community and minting a class value, possibly reusing class="notranslate" [1], to handle this. I would also recommend not translating the contents of <code>. As has been noted, for more in-depth control, the ITS vocabulary is probably the better solution; indeed an ITS tranlation rule set [2] could be used to define the processing of a microformat formally. It may make sense to come up with a way to have external ITS files defining rules and link to them from HTML files using a <link rel=""> keyword; if this is desired, I would recommend writing up the semantics of such a keyword in a separate document, and then listing the keyword on the WHATWG RelExtensions wiki, so that it gets registered when we finalise the solution for rel value registration. [1] http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/helping-you-break-language-barrier.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#rules -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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