- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:28:56 +0100
- To: <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
The current title of our guidelines doc is: Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0. I'm wondering whether we shouldn't just strike the XHTML part and limit ourselves to HTML.. I'm not proposing that we change anything before publication of the first WD - this discussion relates to the next iteration. Reasons for thinking this: - Our discussions on this point during the FTF were not very conclusive, though we noted the potential for issues when talking about XHTML served as XML - we weren't very clear what these were likely to be, however. - My understanding is that you can't successfully serve xhtml as xml yet to the general population - certainly IE doesn't support it, and that's a large chunk of the population. I wonder, therefore, about the value of dealing with it right now - though I don't exclude it from a future version of the guidelines. - If we don't talk about xhtml served as xml in the guidelines, then we are really only talking about html. Having said this, I think we should definitely continue to refer to xhtml served as text/html where differences appear, eg. xml:lang and encoding declarations and we should continue to provide all examples in xhtml syntax. - Eliminating xhtml as xml will halve the amount of testing we'll need to do. If we went this route, we should add a section to the intro and text to the abstract indicating that we also cover xhtml 1.0 served as text/html, and explaining what that means. So, in summary, I guess I'm proposing 2 things: 1. that we don't consider xhtml served as xml in our guidelines for now 2. if we go with (1), that we consider simplifying the title. Please send in your thoughts to the list so we can have a brief but productive discussion on Wednesday. Thanks. RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/International/geo/ See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html
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