RE: Feedback for rb from html5j.org (was RE: HTML5 and ruby

Update, IE10: I now checked IE10, only to learn that HTML5's 
letter-by-letter model creates problems in IE10 as well.

Leif H Silli


Leif Halvard Silli, Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:54:56 +0100:
> Koji Ishii, Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:46:44 -0500:
>>> HTML5's letter-by-letter model creates a difference between what 
>>> the user sees in his Web browser and the underlying code.
>      ... snip ...
>> Letter-by-letter is 
>> another example. This lack of capability can cause real problems in 
>> fallback, selections, finding the word, TTS, and all other services 
>> that parses HTML such as Google Translate.
>> 
>> Does this express all your concerns?
> 
> For letter-by-letter, two more concerns: 
>    Firstly, Spell-checking [see discussion with Martin].
>    Secondly, authoring. With XHTML 1.1 ruby, then, when you create 
> letter-by-letter ruby, you first enter an expression in the ruby base 
> container, the <rbc>. And thereafter, you you enter the 'translation' 
> inside the <rtc>. Thus, author concentrates on writing the entire base 
> first, and thereafter on the ruby text 'translation'. 
>    By contrast, in the current HTML5 model, the author must keep the 
> tongue in balance and type single letters from *two* words - base and 
> translation - simultaneously. This can probably be quite difficult if 
> you have long word, or if you have lots of ruby to add, or if you work 
> directly with the code. It might also be difficult to automate for hand 
> authoring in a WYSIWYG too [consider that for the <dl> element, then - 
> to this day - many WYSIWYG authoring tools do not offer any effective 
> way for adding <dt> and <dd>.] How difficult it becomes for the author 
> to keep them apart, might also depend on how different the script of 
> the base is from the script of the ruby text. The HTML5 model, for an 
> author, is thus comparable to a table model where one would have to 
> work with cells from two rows simultaneously.
> -- 
> Leif Halvard Silli
>

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