Re[2]: FW: acronym in title... from Martin Duerst on 2003-03-13 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from January to March 2003)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:37:25 -0500
To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, <ishida@w3.org>, <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>, <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20030313163600.07d5ce48@localhost>

At 09:57 03/03/13 -0500, Al Gilman wrote:

>At 07:36 AM 2003-03-13, Richard Ishida wrote:
>[Place all 'localisable' i.e. natural language text in elements, not 
>attributes.]
>
><new>
>
>I think that the one thing I should add right away is that there
>is an option using "annotation" techniques to leave the attribute as is
>and introduce a higher-quality equivalent through a structure which
>refers to the attribute.

I agree that this is an option in principle, but for the things
we are considering (<span xml:lang='...'>, ruby,...), it seems
like an enormous overhead.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Thursday, 13 March 2003 16:39:21 UTC