New specdev material about bidi

chaps,

I have published an very drafty update of the spec development 
guidelines in a *temporary location* at

http://w3c.github.io/bp-i18n-specdev/index_bidi#text_direction

that works on bidi topics. All the changes are in section 5 of that 
document.  The changes so far are mostly in the background material 
(moved and updated from the article i used to have on my own site, and 
integrated into the specdev doc). The actual recommendations still need 
rework – i'm actually considering whether to have separate subsections 
for recommendations related to markup documents vs JSON.

you'll also notice that i regrouped everything again into a single 
section about text direction.  That seemed to fall out of adding the 
additional background information. (So i may need to do the same with 
the language information too later.)

In addition, i've been pulling together some real world examples at

https://github.com/w3c/i18n-activity/wiki/Specs-handling-text-direction

one of which is the Activity Streams model we currently need to resolve, 
and the other is the Web Annotation model, which we worked on before.  I 
plan to add other models to this as time goes by, including CSV and 
WebVTT.  For Activity Streams, i've tried to list problems and proposed 
solutions.

please take a look and send any comments.

i plan to show this to the activity streams folks prior to our 
discussions with them coming up next week.

cheers,
ri

Received on Friday, 29 July 2016 18:17:34 UTC