RE: [Media Capture] Human readable message not localizable? [I18N-ISSUE-465] ( LC-3027)

Hello Vivien and Media-capture,

Sorry for the detail in responding. I somehow missed the previous emails.

We did indeed discuss this in some of our teleconferences recently. The issue identified in your specification also appears in other specifications that we have reviewed recently and we have embarked upon work to better define best practices in this area (some of which, no doubt, will fall into the webIDL or ES space).

I don't agree with your resolution to this issue. Language and direction information are important (and become more so in a distributed environment). Although messages may not always be intended for end-user consumption, they are often used in this way. The ability to provide this metadata and to provide for multiple language support is often overlooked in the design of data structures like this.

That said, given that this is an error mechanism, that it is commonly implemented currently in the way you describe in other specifications, that is mostly appears in a single-machine context, and that we do not have a specific use case that would require you to be pioneers here, we can understand why you're not changing the design and will not formally object later.

Regards,

Addison

Addison Phillips
Principal SDE, I18N Architect (Amazon)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vivien Lacourba [mailto:vivien@w3.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 3:07 AM
> To: Phillips, Addison
> Cc: dom@w3.org; public-media-capture@w3.org; public-i18n-core@w3.org
> Subject: Re: [Media Capture] Human readable message not localizable?
> [I18N-ISSUE-465] ( LC-3027)
> 
> Hi Addison,
> 
> We were wondering if you reviewed the Media Capture TF response to your
> LC comment. I see this topic was referred during your July 9th call [1] and
> looking at the minutes I believe you were planning to reply us.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vivien
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2015/07/09-i18n-minutes.html#item06

> 
> On mar., 2015-07-07 at 15:03 +0000, Phillips, Addison wrote:
> > CC: public-i18n-core
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dom@w3.org [mailto:dom@w3.org]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 6:14 AM
> > > To: Phillips@jessica.w3.org; Phillips, Addison
> > > Cc: public-media-capture@w3.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Media Capture] Human readable message not localizable?
> > > [I18N-ISSUE-465] ( LC-3027)
> > >
> > >  Dear Phillips, Addison ,
> > >
> > > The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group has reviewed the
> > > comments you sent [1] on the Last Call Working Draft [2] of the
> > > Media Capture and Streams published on 14 Apr 2015. Thank you for
> > > having taken the time to review the document and to send us comments!
> > >
> > > The Working Group's response to your comment is included below, and
> > > has been implemented in the new version of the document available at:
> > > http://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-

> main/archives/20150629/getusermedia.html.
> > >
> > > Please review it carefully and let us know by email at public-media-
> > > capture@w3.org if you agree with it or not before 17 July 2015. In
> > > case of disagreement, you are requested to provide a specific
> > > solution for or a path to a consensus with the Working Group. If
> > > such a consensus cannot be achieved, you will be given the
> > > opportunity to raise a formal objection which will then be reviewed
> > > by the Director during the transition of this document to the next stage in
> the W3C Recommendation Track.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > For the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group, Dominique
> > > Hazaël-Massieux Vivien Lacourba W3C Staff Contacts
> > >
> > >  1.
> > >
> http://www.w3.org/mid/7C0AF84C6D560544A17DDDEB68A9DFB52EDE0D89

> > > @ex10-mbx-36009.ant.amazon.com
> > >  2. http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-mediacapture-streams-20150414/

> > >
> > >
> > > =====
> > >
> > > Your comment on message of type DOMString, readonly , nullable:
> > > > https://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/465

> > > >
> > > >
> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-mediacapture-streams-

> 20150414/#widl-
> > > MediaStreamError-message
> > > >
> > > > The 'message' value of MediaStreamError has no associated language
> > > > or base direction information. Multiple 'message' values in
> > > > different languages are not provided for. Since the message is
> > > > generated by the user-agent, this may already be appropriately
> > > > localized, but what about remote or hosted cases? And having the
> > > > language and direction metadata may be useful when presenting the
> > > > string in JS alerts or in an HTML context.
> > > >
> > > > Addison Phillips
> > > > Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126) Chair (W3C I18N WG)
> > >
> > >
> > > Working Group Resolution (LC-3027):
> > > As discussed on the list, these error messages are intended for
> > > debugging and not for display in the user interface; also, should
> > > error messages need better internationalization support, this should
> > > be handled at the EcmaScript or WebIDL level, not in this particular
> specification.
> > >
> > > The Working Group doesn't plan on making change based on this
> comment.
> > >
> > > ----
> 
> --
> Vivien Lacourba                      World Wide Web Consortium
> vivien@w3.org                        http://www.w3.org

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