- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 04:07:17 +0900
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
Richard Ishida wrote:
> http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/
Slide 32: "Internet Explorer 5 and later supports simple ruby markup
in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 documents." - there's no such thing as
"simple ruby markup in HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 documents". If a document
contains markup not defined in HTML 4 or XHTML 1.0, by definition
such document is not HTML 4 nor XHTML 1.0. In practice IE won't
stop processing ruby markup if you (wrongly) declare HTML 2.0, 3.2
or whatever, even serving the following document:
<section>
<title>What's this?</title>
<para>This is maybe DocBook or something else, not even sure whether
it's XML or SGML or other thing, at least definitely not HTML -
is this <ruby xmlns="http://example.org/notXHTML1norXHTML2"
><b>RUBY</b><rt>ruby</rt></ruby>?</para>
</section>
as "text/plain" can't prevent IE from processing "ruby". So it doesn't
make sense at all to only mention HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 here.
More on implementation: "XHTML Ruby Support" [1] adds ruby support
to Netscape 7, Mozilla and Firefox. It does handle both simple and
complex ruby, including rbspan.
[1] http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_rubysupport.html.en
Regards,
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Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Received on Saturday, 25 June 2005 19:07:23 UTC