- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosc@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 08:24:41 +0100
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- CC: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 1/10/11 4:28 PM, Robin Berjon wrote: > On Jan 10, 2011, at 16:00 , Marcos Caceres wrote: >> I would be happier if we could break up the Widget P&C spec into: >> >> * Packaging (zip only requirements) * XML Configuration for >> widgets * XML Localization and Folder-based Localization > > I could live with that. It's not that I'm against l12n, I just don't > think that it needs to be part of the standard given its complexity > cost and likely actual usage. I would argue that it's not particularly complicated to implement, and we are seeing it used in Opera extensions: we have extensions in 15 languages as of today in our catalog [0]. Here is a breakdown (these are not exclusive to one language, most use English and some other language - and please be mindful our catalog is very new): English: 262 Russian: 33 Polish: 16 German: 5 Japanese: 3 Turkish: 3 Slovak: 2 Portuguese: 2 Italian: 2 Norwegian: 2 Spanish: 1 Belarusian: 1 Czech: 1 Hungarian: 1 Northern Sami: 1 TOTAL (all languages): 335 of which 74 use another language (20% of the catalog). 20% is fairly significant and certainly indicative of "actual usage". To put into perspective, we have had over 4 million downloads of extensions since launch. Most of those use 2 languages in the same widget, and some up to 3. For example [1]: <widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" version="2.3-D"> <name xml:lang="en">AutoComplete</name> <name xml:lang="ru">AutoComplete（Автозаполнение）</name> <name xml:lang="ja">AutoComplete（自動入力補完）</name> <description xml:lang="en">Provides the Autocomplete for the text input box.</description> <description xml:lang="ru">Обеспечивает автозаполнения для текстового поля ввода.</description> <description xml:lang="ja">テキストフォームに自動入力補完機能を提供し ます。</description> </widget> It's evident that the i18n model is usable by runtimes, widget galleries, and developers. [0] http://www.operaextensions.com [1] https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/autocomplete/2.3-D/
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