- From: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:31:02 +0000 (GMT)
- To: HTML Editor <www-html-editor@w3.org>, w3c html wg <w3c-html-wg@w3.org>
Which is the appropriate mailing list for this subject? Is the w3c-html-wg list now closed? I'm somewhat concerned at having seen no QA criteria regarding translations of the HTML 4.0 specification. Presumably, any links to such translations will carry a W3C disclaimer regarding the correctness of the translation. Hence, I'm not too worried about that aspect. There are, however, other aspects where bad examples could easily be set by such translations. I have in mind the possible abuse of HTML and of the HTML spec at a lower level than the visible text and am thinking of issues such as: - the use of illegal or incorrect language codes or their omission, - the use of illegal or incorrect meta charset tags or their omission, - the use of illegal or incorrect bidi constructs or their omission, - the use of illegal or incorrect NCRs or entity names. Some of these errors could be caught by automated scripts. Has any thought been given to producing such scripts or to other QA measures? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misha Wolf Email: misha.wolf@reuters.com 85 Fleet Street Standards Manager Voice: +44 171 542 6722 London EC4P 4AJ Reuters Limited Fax : +44 171 542 8314 UK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th International Unicode Conference, 8-10 Apr 1998, Tokyo, www.unicode.org 7th World Wide Web Conference, 14-18 Apr 1998, Brisbane, www7.conf.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
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